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This article focuses on the use of blue belts as a means of restricting development on floodplains in Great Britain. Changing weather patterns caused by global warming mean that fluvial flooding is set to become an increasing feature of life in the country. It is thus vital to restrict certain types of development on land at risk from flooding--and in some cases ban development altogether. A statutory development control aid called blue belt could fulfil this role. Blue belt would control development for the good of people and the environment--but in floodplains and other land at risk from flooding.