For years, developers pitched plans to build hillside homes with ocean views on Mariano Rancho. In 2002, a proposed project called Open 80 promised to leave 80% of the hillside as open space ...

Residents in a Derbyshire town would face a “greatly increased threat” of flooding from hillside “ponds” the size of 13 Olympic swimming pools, an MP has told a planning inquiry. John Whitby, ...