内容摘要："The case is disturbing because it shows the extremities that people will go to."

"The case is disturbing because it shows the extremities that people will go to."

Along with organisations such as the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), CIWEM is advocating for the implementation of Schedule 3 - although Mr Chisholm thinks retrofitting existing spaces would go a long way towards helping London become a sponge city."This is one of the most deliverable solutions we can do," Mr Chisholm says, adding: "If we can retrofit a really small proportion of our towns and cities, we can hit an awful lot of sewage pollution problems, an awful lot of environment resilience problems, and bring back nature."

He is urging "all of our political leaders to really push the concept of sponge cities".In response, the government said it was committed to tackling "all forms of flooding" and that an "implementation pathway" for Schedule 3 would be finalised.However, the NIC said this response "

" and "lacks the urgency required to meet the threat".In the 14 years it's taken the government to begin considering the implementation of mandatory SuDS,

. This added heat is intensifying heavy rainfall.

Looking at China - where the sponge city concept started - some studies found it“It was a dream story for the far-right,” he said.

“They had no interest in solutions, they were interested in exploiting the situation."Ten years on, tensions remain in the town and recently came to the fore at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, near Rotherham, when a riot broke out outside the hotel, which housed asylum seekers, in the wake of the Southport knife attack.

“There is such a danger in allowing people to blame ‘the other’, especially when your life itself isn't great,” he said.Mr Norfolk first became aware of cases in West Yorkshire when Ann Cryer, at the time the MP for Keighley, publicly raised concerns about the abuse of two girls in her constituency.