The high-risk flood zones amount to around half of all the sites earmarked in the council's new draft plan.
Local Democracy Reporting ServiceIt amounts to around half of all the sites earmarked in Waltham Forest's new draft plan.The plans require a sign-off from the government's planning inspectorate before being finalised.
At the hearing, the council argued that it needs to go "as far as possible" to meet the borough's housing needs.It comes as another east London council recently had its planning powers diminished by failing to reach its targets. Waltham Forest's assistant director of place and design, Sarah Parsons, said the council intends to use funds raised from the new developments to install floodwater storage and sustainable urban drainage systems.
In 2021, many Whipps Cross residents were waist-deep in August floodwaters and Whipps Cross Hospital was also flooded, losing power with 100 patients evacuated.
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