How puddles are blocking building the homes we need

How puddles are blocking building the homes we need

Paul Smith is Managing Director of The Strategic Land Group There are many barriers to building the new homes we so urgently need, but puddles are perhaps the most surprising – and one of the easiest to fix. Surface water flooding is the planning jargon for what happens when it rains so hard that drainage systems become overwhelmed – puddles, in other words, albeit often big ones. Current planning policy requires surface water flooding to be dea…