Flooding has hit Jennie Spicer’s 17th Century cottage at Ruan High Lanes in Cornwall three times this week, leaving her family back in temporary accommodation, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).
She said she had repeatedly reported blocked drains and wants a CCTV investigation because the system is often buried under compacted mud.
“We cannot live like this, we haven’t had a home in two years as we keep getting displaced by flood water,” she said.
Cornwall Council said the area had a long history of flooding from water running off nearby fields, which overwhelmed drains designed only for highway runoff.
It said the drains were cleaned and functioning as expected and the issue had been passed to the Environment Agency to investigate.