What nonsense to claim there is no choice but to build new houses on flood plains (The Argus, November 28).

There’s a perfectly obvious alternative – build them somewhere else!

It would require a national planning strategy that is not driven by the greed of developers who want to cram more and more housing into the overcrowded South East because development profits are highest here.

And it would need politicians to see the fallacy of short-term parochial economics.

Sadly there’s very little chance of either, so we’ll doubtless keep diverting millions of pounds from essential public services into increasingly expensive flood defences just so that more houses can be built where it is clearly not sensible to build them.

Ray Chandler, The Drive, Shoreham