Highways authorities must look below the surface

摘要

As Cumbria counts the gargantuan cost of restorini its bridges, homes and businesses after last November's floods, the finger-pointing is well underway. Just how could this happen - again -after all of the recommendations made in the DEFRA/Pitt Report, following the similarly devastating floods across Gloucestershire in 2007? Wasn't Britain supposed to be on alert now, proactively ready with pre-emptive defences?