You are missing the point. Politics makes the rules and regulations. Anyone suffering from floods in recently built houses should be able to get compensation from their local authority.
I wouldn't want one of those new houses planned for the area around the Parker Pen site at Newhaven either. Not unless they are on stilts anyway. Why don't these planners consult the locals? We could have saved Sainsburys a few quid to start with, anyone could have told them that the original...