The Sustainable Urban Drainage Regulations

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:48 pm on 20 February 2019.

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Photo of Mark Reckless Mark Reckless Conservative 2:48, 20 February 2019

I know what the Minister says, but she also tells us, as do other Ministers, that the Welsh Government is committed to a great increase in housing supply and what a priority this is. While she no doubt has worthy justifications for the particular regulations, does she accept that there is a trade-off between such a regulation that makes house building more expensive and more difficult for people who might undertake it and the amount of housing that will be supplied?

Will she also consider complaints that I've had from house builders about inconsistent interpretation of these regulations by different drainage-approval bodies and the intention of various planning authorities to come up with separate and potentially conflicting guidance as to how they should take these regulations into account?