The Department of the Environment has on 28 September 2015 published the Strategic Planning Policy Statement for Northern Ireland, that will ultimately replace all individual planning policy statements (including PPS15 Planning and Flood Risk). The SPPS sections relating to flood risk are broadly similar in policy direction to PPS15…there will now be a transitional period until a Plan Strategy for each council area has been adopted, after which individual PPSs will be redundant. Until then, PPS15 remains the relevant policy across NI.
If you have any queries on PPS15 or flood risk in NI, get in touch!