Collaboration between public bodies - a 'messy' arrangement

"There's no device which brings them together, so there's no mechanism for financial cooperation in terms of coastal adaptation. All there is this is just a messy arrangement between all the things you know - the Environment Agency is essentially patching up things which have been damaged, and local authorities patching up things which have been damaged, which the Environment Agency won't touch, like the promenade in Cromer. That's a local authority problem, but it's also part of coastal defence, and there's no collaboration between one and the other. There is sometimes, but it's not systematic."