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Flooding

Flooding – a Taunton solution

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!”

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Affordable and Social Housing, Freedom of Information Act

How big-time developers avoid affordable housing responsibilities

And how it needed a Freedom of Information request to uncover it:

“…Bringing this Freedom of Information request was important to us because this decision made by the council has real and substantial impacts on the shape and sustainability of our future community. Although the decisions have been made on the East Greenwich Peninsula Masterplan the west Greenwich Peninsula Masterplan with around 15,000 homes is currently before the council. We hope that the council has learned lessons from this case and won’t allow the same mistakes to be made again. That we deliver a mixed sustainable community with a fair and even distribution of affordable housing in line with the original peninsula Masterplan and that this is delivered with value for money for the taxpayer.”

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/05/27/comment-why-my-landmark-victory-for-transparency-is-so-crucial-for-the-future-of-affordable-homes/