How the postwar New Towns can help us in building resilience to flooding
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Bradbury, Matthew
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2025-06-04
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Great Britain
housing policy
housing development
flood resilient architecture
climate change
urban flooding
adaptation strategies
housing policy
housing development
flood resilient architecture
climate change
urban flooding
adaptation strategies
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Bradbury, M A. (2025). How the postwar New Towns can help us in building resilience to flooding. The Planner, 111, 111-111.
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/7244
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The UK government plans to address the lack of affordable housing in the UK by building 1.5 million houses. This target will be met by expanding towns and cities with new buildings and constructing new towns on brownfield and greenfield sites. The recent announcement of the development of the Oxford- Cambridge Arc is part of this project.
But before we start building, we must first acknowledge the inescapable impact that climate change will have on all our towns and cities. As the world heats up, we can expect more flooding, both pluvial and fluvial, and for the sea level to rise. Last year, in September 2024, Cyclone Boris caused extensive flooding in central Europe, with a month's worth of rain falling in 24 hours. Billions of dollars of property damage were caused, and over 30 people were killed.
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