Environment Agency

[EternalOptimist]

I wondered how long it would take somebody to use flooding as a reason to leave the EU.

We have some shiny new flood defences round here (from a couple of years ago) and it hasn't flooded yet. There are a lot of rivers and there are 20+ million odd houses, but when a few hundred houses get flooded by one river it's all over the TV news as the end of everything. They should start by listing all the areas that are absolutely fine despite people choosing to live near a river against all common sense because it looks pretty.

er.no
If you have nice shiney flood defences, its possible you are moving the problem somewhere else.
The entire watercourse has to be looked at as a whole
and that's what is not happening

[cojak]

Planning regulations need to get tougher with developers. This shouldn't be a surprise anymore.

Living with water: four buildings that will withstand flooding

[darmstadt]

Conservative Government’s attitude to flooding:

HOW TO DEAL WITH THE FLOODS
1. Lay a large bet that the Conservative Government will allow your house to flood again.
2. Collect your winnings.
3. Move house.

http://i100.independent.co.uk/articl...re--bJ48LUrdix

[SueEllen]

Planning regulations need to get tougher with developers. This shouldn't be a surprise anymore.

Living with water: four buildings that will withstand flooding

Agreed.

Years ago I stayed at a house in Belgium with a basement in a flood zone.

We were like why is there a basement?!?

Anyway the basement flooded we phoned the owner up and were told just turn the pump on.

The pump kept the water in the basement and after 3 days it started receding.

Incidentally the owner had completely emptied the basement out before going away.

[EternalOptimist]

Remember the lune on ?Grand Designs? who designed his Thames bank home so that it floated?

Doesn't seem such a dumb idea any more.

And then there was the chap who elevated his existing house on stilts so the water just washed under it.

He doesn't seem so dumb either.

you can see whole streets in Townsville and Broome, etc, built up on stilts, it's very common. They go to ingenious lengths to disguise it by building carports etc on the lower level. Loads of majestic 3 story houses turn out to be ordinary houses on stilts when you have a closer look

[VectraMan]

er.no
If you have nice shiney flood defences, its possible you are moving the problem somewhere else.

It does move the problem somewhere else. It moves the problem to uninhabited rural land. Possibly not great for the farmer, but good for everyone else.

There's a plan for Oxford to build a new channel for the Thames most of the way round the city. It's reckoned to cost £120m and obviously won't be built overnight, but seems likely to happen.

[darmstadt]

Cheap housing on the A59 Whalley Arches coming up shortly:



Clitheroe Advertiser and Times

[BrilloPad]

Fit for purpose or a complete bolloxs waste of £1025 million

Suity was PM on that and got a damn good living. So money well spent....

[BrilloPad]

War-torn Syria to welcome UK flood victims

War-torn Syria to welcome UK flood victims

Syria has pledged to do its bit to help English families whose lives have been ruined by a bit of rain.

As pictures of the biblical Boxing Day floods were beamed across the Middle East, war victims and those pillaged by ISIS were thanking their lucky stars for their generous climate.

And UK-based Syrian migrants caught up in the floods have begged to return to their homeland to face the butcher Assad.

However some Syrians fear being swamped by a tidal wave of English migrants who refuse to learn Syrian and don’t play by their rules.

[SueEllen]

War-torn Syria to welcome UK flood victims

War-torn Syria to welcome UK flood victims

Syria has pledged to do its bit to help English families whose lives have been ruined by a bit of rain.

As pictures of the biblical Boxing Day floods were beamed across the Middle East, war victims and those pillaged by ISIS were thanking their lucky stars for their generous climate.

And UK-based Syrian migrants caught up in the floods have begged to return to their homeland to face the butcher Assad.

However some Syrians fear being swamped by a tidal wave of English migrants who refuse to learn Arabic and don’t play by their rules.

They don't speak "Syrian" in the same way people from India don't speak "Indian"

(The joke was good apart from that.)