Petition Keep flood prevention standards

More details

We urge the Department of Communities and Local Government to reverse its intention of scrapping what are known as the Sur 1 and Sur 2 requirements of “The Code for Sustainable Homes”. These:

1.prevent surface run-off which cause floods
2.prevent flood damage to homes in the event of a flood (even if they are in a flood plain)

The requirements are under threat from DCLG’s Housing Standards Review, which is not yet complete.

The Environmental Audit Committee has also recommended that the Code (which includes Sur 1 and Sur 2 requirements) should be retained (Eighth Report of Session 2013-2014).

For these reasons, the Sur 1 and Sur 2 requirements must not be scrapped and to do so during the recent flooding in the UK is utterly short-sighted.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

1 signature

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 1 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 10 June 2014
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.