Flooding: Is the UK’s most frequent natural disaster Labour’s ‘build, baby, build’ blindspot?
The government wants to ‘build, baby, build’ 1.5 million homes before the turn of the decade but could flooding scupper its ambitions? Listen to the ECO Chamber to find out more… Flooding is the UK’s most frequent natural disaster, affecting people, properties, businesses and places in the short-, medium-, and long-term, destroying critical infrastructure.This week, author and journalist Katerine Quarmby speaks with ECO Chamber host James Agyepong-Parsons about the increasing frequency of flood events across the UK and the difficult policy solutions that need to be found.PLUS: Pro-growth amendments to the controversial Planning Bill have been put forward, Southern Water is to cut its water abstraction and the Crown Estate is being threatened by Greenpeace UK with legal action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.