Director, Neil Jaques, leads the water teams at Motion, advising clients on flood risk and drainage strategies for a range of residential, mixed-use and employment schemes. In the following article, he examines the impact of recent updates to flood-risk guidance and sustainable drainage standards.
A renatured, rural, mixed-use redevelopment centred around a Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) habitat plan with benefits for the local community, ecology and environment is crowned winner of the Motion Green Project of the Year 2025 award.
Sites adopting a broadly sequential approach to flood risk may no longer need to apply the sequential test as a result of the latest changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Yet while the strengthening of the wording around this aspect of policy has been well received, there remain some unanswered questions. In the
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