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More than 7,000 homes have been given planning permission to be built in the most flood-prone areas of the country, insurer Allianz warns.
Allianz said 7,116 new homes have full or conditional planning permission on previously undeveloped floodplains in the 12 local authorities with the highest proportion of homes at flood risk.
An Allianz report written by think tank Localis said that 7 per cent of England’s flood defences are in a poor state, with 1 per cent classed as very poor.
A quarter of flood defences are privately owned and almost twice as likely to be in poor condition than those maintained by the Environment Agency.
n England, there are 12 local authorities where more than one in 10 properties face a more than 1 per cent risk of flooding – the benchmark for being deemed high risk.
The authorities surveyed are: South Holland, Boston, Fenland, Runnymede, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, City of Kingston upon Hull, East Lindsey, North Lincolnshire, Spelthorne, Doncaster, Exeter, Windsor and Maidenhead.
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(RG Note) Many years ago I did a snap survey of households in Whittlesey, over 200 participated and out of those, 20% had No Flood Insurance, 10% had No Insurance at all.
Around 20% had to shop around for Insurance.
Maybe I’ll do another up date.
