Maree Buscke speaks with Stephen Pattinson, a New Zealand architect and Pinehaven resident who has spent over a decade challenging flood maps he believes are seriously flawed. Stephen says the baseline model treats forested hills as if they were already developed, massively overstating flood risk — yet real flood events consistently fail to match predictions.
Reader Izzy says: Very relevant, and it got my blood pressure going once again with the mention of Jacobs and Councils reliance on these extreme modelling scenarios, let alone all the bureaucratic whitewashing that goes on — so many similarities to our issues here on the coast and all around the country.