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According to Michael Coombs, a highly qualified civil engineer with considerable experience in this field, the water would reach the entrance of the learning centre within less than a minute and would rise to a metre above the ground level. If anyone managed to escape from underground, which is unlikely, they would be swept away by the speed of the oncoming water which would flood the whole area. This risk cannot be accepted. Mr Coombs believes the project should be classified as “high vulnerability”, rather than “low vulnerability”, as incorrectly claimed by the applicants. There are consequences to this classification which have not been addressed in the proposal, and I trust that the Planning Inspectorate will insist that they are.