Building Regs overhaul set to make homes flood resistant

摘要

Building Regulations will be overhauled to protect new houses in flood-risk areas from 2010 after a government-commissioned inquiry into last summer's devastating floods. The government said it would take forward recommendations from Sir Michael Pitt, who led the independent review, to bring in compulsory flood-resilient measures when the regulations were next updated in 2010. His report, which made 92 recommendations, said simple things such as waterproof plaster could speed up recovery after flooding.