Housing and Planning

Diana Johnson Excerpts

Thursday 6th September 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Pickles]

Without a local plan, development depends more particularly on each application. That makes the process more difficult, time consuming and complex. By refusing to make reasonable progress towards a local plan, the council is harming the environment rather than aiding it, because it is denying local people the opportunity to mould their environment—their villages or towns—in a way that will enable future generations to remain proud of where they live.

[Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North) (Lab)]

My constituency was flooded badly in 2007 with surface water. What thought has been given to the flood risk of extending permitted development?