Probe is down the drains

30 January 2008

Sir Michael Pitt is to investigate the extent to which local authorities need to recruit senior engineers who specialise in drainage.

Giving evidence last week to the environment select committee, Sir Michael, who chaired the Learning lessons from the 2007 floods review (Surveyor 10 January 2008), said local authorities had been ‘quite seriously denuded of professional expertise in the water area’.

He said the second report into last summer’s flooding would look at a legal duty for local authorities to undertake drainage work. Sir Michael also said there should be ‘a strong presumption against building in any flood risk areas at all’.

If not, the provisions of planning policy statement 25 must be absolutely applied. Volume 2 of the review would also focus on this, but it was too early to judge the early results of PPS25, he added.

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