Let Them Have Hovels

They may have known something about planning in the past.

"Yet the government has long known that major urban flooding is inevitable. The Stern report on the economics of climate change, and the 2004 Foresight report - the most wide ranging analysis of future flood risk in the UK - warned that flooding costs could rise from about £1bn a year today to nearly £21bn a year later this century. The EA has been spending nearly £500m a year improving defences but has long been saying that it needs to spend £250m a year more now, and £1bn a year later; and the chief scientist, Sir David King, advised several years ago that flooding will worsen as extreme weather becomes more frequent. To rub it in, the National Audit Office reported only last month that 50% of all UK flood defences were not in target condition." Guardian

And they still want to build on floodplains