That's alarmingly common. It only takes one idiotic or corrupt planning team to flip decades of sensible flood planning. All this land set aside gets built on a

That's alarmingly common. It only takes one idiotic or corrupt planning team to flip decades of sensible flood planning. All this land set aside gets built on and everyone acts surprised when it's foot-deep in raw sewage. Happens frequently in the UK. Too many fingers at every level of government happy to take a "donation" from a developer.