Government 'must not build on floodplains'

The regulator says halting plans to build on floodplains would ensure flood insurance remains “widely available and competitively priced”. The comments come as the Government releases a draft of its Housing Green Paper, which outlines plans to build 3m houses by 2020. Nick Starling, the ABI’s director of general insurance and health, says: “We need new homes. But they must be built in the right place and to the right design. The devastation caused by the recent floods shows the importance of planning for the future. “We need a fresh approach to house building to take account of the in...