Everyone who has a paved driveway could face annual charges under radical proposals put forwards in a bid to tackle climate change in cities.

A report commissioned by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has suggested a raft of drastic solutions to combat flooding caused by the climate crisis in London, which could extend to other cities in the UK if implemented successfully.

One such suggestion was that people with paved driveways could be made to pay ‘stormwater charges’, due to having no…