With his trademark energetic enthusiasm, he reels off technical details about attenuation tanks and swales.

The area has a history of flooding and Scottish Water constructed an attenuation tank to manage peak flow rates in storms.

Other names for the isolation tank include flotation tank, float tank, John C. Lilly tank, REST tank, and sensory attenuation tank.

A condition of Wainhomes being allowed to build 50 houses in Feniton was the construction of attenuation tanks on site to hold flood water, and Wainhomes was charged with not allowing any houses to be occupied until this condition was met.

Phase 2 cost £13.2 million and covered risk mitigation works comprising site clearance, ground works to remediate and level site, service diversions (high-voltage and communications cables and mains water), re-locatation and provision of new storm water attenuation tanks and new pavement-quality concrete aprons.