Abstracts
Abstract
Although planning policy enables local planning authorities to influence development with regard to flood risk, in practice there appears to be a number of barriers inhibiting effective flood mitigation, particularly in areas with high development pressures. This research focuses on treatment of flood risk within the English local planning system and discovers that there is a seeming failure to capture strategic, collective flood management opportunities, resulting in an implementation deficit between the aims of planning policy and its practical application. Improvements to local planning policy frameworks are needed therefore, to enable the use of more strategic solutions without compromising local development needs.
Keywords:
- flooding,
- spatial planning,
- policy,
- development control
Résumé
Bien que la politique d’aménagement permette aux autorités d’aménagement local d’influencer le développement en fonction des risques d’inondation, il apparaît qu’en pratique, il y a un certain nombre de barrières à la réduction efficace des inondations, en particulier dans les secteurs où les pressions pour le développement sont élevées. Cette recherche est axée sur le traitement des risques d’inondation dans le système d’aménagement local anglais et met en évidence que des occasions stratégiques de gestion collective des inondations ont clairement été manquées, avec pour résultat un écart entre les objectifs de la politique d’aménagement et son application pratique, de par sa mise en oeuvre. L’amélioration de la structure de la politique d’aménagement local est donc nécessaire pour permettre l'utilisation de solutions plus stratégiques sans compromettre les besoins de développement local.
Mots-clés:
- inondation,
- aménagement de l’espace,
- politique,
- contrôle du développement
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