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Managing flood risk in development and building works
Find out how we manage flood risk in the borough, including protecting structures or features that play a role in reducing flood risk and promoting sustainable drainage such as ponds and green roofs.
How we manage the flood risk
As the Lead Local Flood Authority and as the Local Planning Authority, we have a range of duties and powers to help prevent and manage flooding within the borough. Some of those duties affect building and development within the borough.
Power to do works
We have powers to do works to manage flood risk from surface runoff and groundwater. All works must be consistent with our local flood risk management strategy.
Flooding and planning policy
Through the development management process, we ensure that developers assess flood risk for their schemes and that the Environment Agency is consulted on planning applications in areas of flood risk.
Planning policy guidance is set out in our Core Strategy (Policy DM4 ‘Water Management and Flood Risk’). This ensures that inappropriate new developments are prevented in flood risk areas and that any proposed development is directed away from areas that are at higher risk.
You can read our Core Strategy online.