Building scandal brewing in flood protection failures

Government must do more to protect existing and future homes from the risk of increased flooding or the issue may become “the next major housing and building regulations scandal”, a Parliamentary committee has warned. One lawyer says the problem of flooding has been largely ignored by successive governments.

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