Impacts www.theguardian.com Building new homes on land prone to flooding 'making damage worse' The building of tens of thousands of homes on flood-prone land is worsening the damage to surrounding areas, Conservative MPs have said, as the head of the Environment Agency warned against new developments on floodplains.
Impacts theconversation.com Putting homes in high-risk areas is asking too much of firefighters Land-use planning should give more weight to the increasing risks of natural hazards like bushfires as the first step in reducing the impacts.
