“Homes and businesses should continue to be built on flood plains across the UK, despite the increasing risks this would involve for future residents, according to the government’s advisors on climate change.
Lord Krebs, the government’s statutory advisor on adapting to the effects of global warming, told an influential committee of MPs on Wednesday that although recent flooding has caused houses and other buildings built on flood plains to be inundated, property could continue to be constructed on flood plains. He made it clear that in cases of such construction, the attendant risks and the possible devastation would have to be made clear to households, local government and developers. ….”
But again we ask: what if subsequent development renders your property prone to flooding when it wasn’t before?
And who decides whether a site is flood prone or not? And how do later owners get to know?
East Devon Watch 
No doubt many of the government advisors are developers!
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If it was left to the Tories we would all be living in mud huts on stilts.
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