Policy information sourced from Enfield Development Managament Document (DMD)
DMD 59 Avoiding and Reducing Flood Risk
New development must avoid and reduce the risk of flooding, and not increase the risks elsewhere. New development must:
- Be appropriately located and informed by a site specific Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) if proposed in flood risk areas in line with DMD 60 ‘Assessing Flood Risk’;
- Preserve overland flood and flow routes, where applicable;
- Ensure no net loss of flood storage on site, or in exceptional circumstances, provide adequate off site compensatory storage;
- Manage surface water as part of all development to reduce run off in line with DMD 60 ‘Assessing Flood Risk’; and
- Prevent the loss of permeable surfaces/areas of soft landscaping, and maximise the use of green infrastructure as potential sources of flood storage.
Planning permission will only be granted for proposals which have addressed all sources of flood risk and would not be subject to, or result in unacceptable levels of flood risk on site or increase the level of flood risk to third parties.
This policy should be read in conjunction with Core Strategy Policy 28.
For more information please see the Development Managament Document (DMD)