Reform MP Richard Tice says flood bosses are failing local people

Analysis by Paul Murphy, BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Environment Correspondent

Maintaining the watercourses and the defences that stop them flooding is an expensive, demanding job.

Especially when climate change continues to throw record rainfall into the county.

This drainage network is also home to a variety of natural life including badgers and voles

Before this can be disturbed by diggers or altered at all, there must be government permission…which isn’t always given.

But questions remain about whether wildlife is enjoying too much protection and human settlement too little.

This debate is especially active in flood prone areas – where vulnerable homeowners believe they are taking second place to the needs of the natural world.