(Extract from Mailonline 8/12/2024)
Residents on the newly built Crawford Park estate in Blyth, Northumberland have been plunged into a nightmare after their homes were flooded twice in six months in what is being seen as an appalling failure of the planning system.
Heavy rain overwhelmed the inadequate sewer in April, causing dirty water to swamp properties and turn a street into a lake.
A second and even more devastating flood hit in October just as repairs were being completed and many residents were moving back in.