The Planning Green Paper, published last week, aims to reform the cumbersome and unpopular planning system and put into practice some of the government's aims for regeneration
The existing Human Rights Act challenges have been widely hailed as the end of the planning system as we know it, but the system and the development industry must go on.
'A typical flood which might now happen once in a hundred years could occur as frequently as every 10 or 20 years in the future. Today's extreme floods could become tomorrow's norm.'