A comment on the Guardian website:

“I live near Taunton Somerset and the local Council are on a flood plain crusade-If they see a flood plain, they build on it. Their defence is 1 in 50 year risk or 1 in a 100 year risk, and this bares [sic] no relationship to what is happening. They also like using attenuation storage, but imagine when we have sustained rainfall, what are they going to do? Yes you have guessed right-release all the attenuation water storage at the same time into River Tone-exactly!

They in my opinion don’t care about traffic congestion, traffic pollution, over development and are destroying what was a beautiful market town. They ought to be ashamed!”