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The flooding in Newhaven wasn't due to rain but a tidal surge. We get high tides, neap and spring but tidal surges are rarer.

It takes more than a month to dry out a house and replaster etc. As I pointed out in a previous post, my friends were in a rented property for 6 months before they could move back in.

No, it's near Oxford. Their cottage is over 200 years old and had never been flooded before. The golf course denied all knowledge but had been messing around before the rainfall.

I agree. Six years ago friends of ours got flooded in August due to a local golf course disturbing local drainage. They didn't get back home for 6 months and, in the meantime, the wife gave birth to twin girls. It was heartbreaking at the time. Flood water is contaminated so it isn't just a case...

Councillors vote on planning issues and are usually in a political party.

It has been company policy to compensate for long periods of outage, for many decades. It has to be a minimum of 24 hours.

Don't forget the councillors who took backhanders to allow planning permission where for years it had been refused because land was known to be a flood plain. I'm not referring to Kent in this instance.