Environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion staged a protest over plans to build 172 homes in an area thought to be at risk of flooding.
What are the developers
thinking...?!?
The homes, planned for Gunners Park, Shoebury, would be below the current high tide mark.
Plans for the homes were previously approved, but stalled because of fears over flooding.
The Environment Agency would only allow the homes to go ahead if work planned on nearby seawalls offered a one in 200-year flooding event protection but those now in the pipeline will offer less than half that.
Then how did it get through planning?
3 comments:
Anyone can find out if the house they are looking at is liable to flooding by doing a simple free search on the internet. Sometimes it's hard to be sympathetic except for those who bought a longtime ago when such information might have been harder to find.
"Then how did it get through planning?"
The answer might be found in brown envelopes.
"Anyone can find out if the house they are looking at is liable to flooding by doing a simple free search on the internet."
If they are smart, yes.
"The answer might be found in brown envelopes."
Perish the thought!
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