Mr. Lawrence Owens:

We have a history of building estates or buildings in areas that were unsuitable and we are seeing the legacy of this in various locations in terms of increased flooding. I am not au faitwith how the flood plain or the issue of flooding is taken into the planning design but it must be part of that process. As we intimated earlier, any of the newer developments are usually resilient in terms of design and construction, particularly in the city island area. Many new developments are coming on stream. The critical problem is within the older buildings - the older, indigenous businesses. It is incredibly difficult to install that resilience because it requires external work on the streetscape in terms of non-returnable valves or doorsteps and, as I said earlier, they are only as good as the weakest link in the chain of that network.