Jersey has public inquiry as to why homes built on a floodplain flooded!

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Basically, permission was given to build on a marshland floodplain where the drainage was assessed as "fair" so 102 homes were built on it. Campaigners said that it should not have been re-zoned for building as homes would flood and this is exactly what happened.

A Committee of Inquiry has now ruled that calling the drainage "fair" was "in hindsight an understatement".

The report also recommended that public consultation processes should be made clearer and more precise so that people had confidence that their views were being listened to.