Almost 10,000 new homes could be built on some of the
most flood-prone areas of England, a Greenpeace investigation has found. They
include hundreds of new-builds in Sheffield and Doncaster, the towns hit hardest
by the latest floods. The Environment Agency told the BBC that virtually all
planning applications last year followed its advice on flood risk. But it
predicts the flooding risk will increase because of climate change. The
Greenpeace study comes as hundreds of flood-hit homes in South Yorkshire and
Derbyshire are still evacuated. It identifies plans to build a total of 9,688
new homes in high-risk areas. Read more on the BBC website.
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