To reduce the risk of flooding, new housing developments should not be built on floodplains.
1.Disagree, floodplains are often the only available development land near existing towns, and restricting building would worsen the housing shortage.
2.Agree, flooding causes emotional distress and long-term mental health problems for affected families, not just financial loss.
3.Disagree, modern flood defences and raised building techniques can reduce the flood risk to levels comparable with non-floodplain sites.
4.Agree, homes on floodplains are far more exposed to serious flood damage than those built elsewhere, so keeping development off them directly protects residents from that risk.