Neighbours who say their street already smells are worried it will only get worse if plans for more homes nearby are approved
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00:00The main thing, I suppose, has to be the flood risk.
00:04Those houses are going to be built on flood risk land.
00:08And, I mean, the flooding over there is terrible.
00:11You don't even have to have an awful lot of rain for it to be like a bog.
00:15January, February, when we had all that rain,
00:18you would have thought that there was an artificial lake there on Island.
00:21That's how bad the water was.
00:24Last year, the smell from the trains has been terrible.
00:27I mean, there's a lot of places in Deal that you walk past
00:30and there's a particular pond.
00:32And there are places up this road that do have that.
00:36But I hadn't experienced it till last year.
00:39You know, they're all saying that they're going to use the same sewage system.
00:43Well, if you've got smells already coming,
00:46what is another 44, 50 houses going to do?
00:49And it's not just 54 houses.
00:51That's 54 houses with two, three, four, five people in them.
00:56So...
00:57The main reasons are the flood plain,
01:01pollution also,
01:04and traffic wise up this road.
01:07Certain times of the day,
01:10this road is, like the N25 school time,
01:14is particularly bad.
01:17When we get bad winters,
01:19it doesn't matter what the person says who owns that property,
01:23that garden gets flooded.
01:25And there's been times when it's had to be pumped out.