‘I fear we’ll have the Thames lined with derelict towers’, warns former City planning chief

"Urban areas have been creating flood risk," writes Lee Bosher. "And this is largely due to the government’s focus on making land – low cost, flood prone land – available for development."

'In some cases, the scale of flooding or coastal change may be so significant [that it] may mean potentially moving communities out of harm’s way in the longer term'

Robert Davis denies any wrongdoing; Westminster Council has launched an inquiry to look at how planning decisions are made