Rother's double double dealing?

I feel that I should comment on your recent story Rother's double dealing.

Double dealing is really only the half of it because it is fairly well known that the Environment Agency being strapped for cash by central government are encouraged to seek contributions towards flood defence works from any developer who could benefit from those flood defence works. To that end the Environment Agency are known to have been in dialogue with at least one representative of a potential developer to offset their costs on improving the eastern Rother flood defence which abuts the Camber Fields.

Rother are marketing this land extremely hastily as being of low grade agricultural use but surely the environment agency and perhaps developers have been in touch with Rother's planning department to discuss their proposals and no doubt the planning department have this site pencilled in for development? Obviously any bidder at an auction in the know would know that this low value agricultural land, once it had planning permission on it, would give them an immense profit at the expense of the Rother Council tax payer.