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INFORMATION released under the Freedom of Information Act to the Countryside Alliance indicated that Redcar and Cleveland council have no plans to build houses on flood plains (Echo, May 8).

This answer is disingenuous to say the least.

In April 2007 the council gave planning permission to Persimmon Homes to build 359 homes on Coatham common and Majuba car park.

The common, according to the Environment Agency, is a Category 3 (the highest) flood risk area.

Subsequently that permission was quashed in the High Court, which ruled that the council had acted unlawfully for reasons of bias and predetermination.

However, according to council leader Coun George Dunning, because the developer Persimmon is appealing against the decision, the planning permission is still valid, until the Appeal Court says otherwise.

This type of mis-information is what the protestors came to expect from the previous Lib Dem-led coalition. We expected better from a Labour led administration, elected in 2007, in view of the statements they, and the Labour MP Vera Baird QC, had made in the two years leading to last year's election.

I should have known differently.

Charles Davis, Redcar.

YET again the public are being duped by local councils into thinking all is well (Echo, May 8).

Among information released to the Countryside Alliance is Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's declaration that it has no plans to build on high risk flood plain areas.

Can the council explain why it has blatantly ignored advice from the Environment Agency in that they have given planning permission to Persimmon Homes to build around 350 homes on land known as Majuba Road sea front car park at Redcar when the advice from the agency was that the land was deemed a high flood risk area and should not be used for residential housing?

Ray Vincent JP, Darlington.

1:12pm Wednesday 14th May 2008

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