In message , Janet Tweedy
writes
In article , Martin
writes
The Ouse floods every year, even in the 1940s when I was kid.
Most of the area that flooded then had no housing on it.


People were more sensible then !
And up until privatisation the Rives Authority (absorbed into the water
boards about 1974 IIRC) could veto any planning applications.
--
hugh