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Labour’s building ambitions fail to factor in insurance

Flooded

The government’s overhaul of the planning system to accelerate housebuilding and deliver 1.5 million homes over this parliament has been slated by insurers for failing to consider flood risk.

Yesterday (12 December) the government published a new planning framework, Plan for Change, to “turbocharge growth with new, mandatory targets for councils to ramp up housebuilding across the country”

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