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Been on to planners but complete waste of time, they cant offer any help or advice as they consider it to be a private legal matter. It wasnt part of original planning permission as flooding was not considered a problem even though the land they were building on was a flood plain which was usually under water for most of the winter. As usual, local people with local knowledge were dismissed as nimbys and it was only after lots of problems on the site such as the main road adjacent to the site collapsing, the gardens of 3 existing houses collapsing, the river flooding and washing a dumptruck away, the driven piles causing major cracking to another house etc did the council start to listen to residents. We have tried to find out who is responsible for the maintenance of the drain but no-one appears to.