The Sid Vale Association’s challenge to the Environment Agency is highlighted in the Sidmouth Herald front page headlines (24 June 2016):
http://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/environment_agency_defends_incomprehensible_support_of_sidford_business_park_plans_1_4591698?utm_medium=email&utm_source=eshot&utm_campaign=newsletterlink

Whatever the outcome, the EA’s own predictions (revised in 2016) show a rapidly rising problem of increasing flood risk which will not go away.