My biggest fear for UK.

[SallyAnne]

And I am not even English. Is that global warming develops to the extent where this year’s floodings are frequent and more and more devastating. If you have invested all your money in UK property and something really bad happens in 30 years you will have worked all your life for nothing.

I hope thinking more about this will anger your view on the world’s dominant power ( US ) and their games of “I rule the world” and “I don’t care about global warming”.

How brain washed are you?!!!

[gingerjedi]

Councillors may be approving plans for building on flood plain - but only because there are no planning grounds for rejection. The basic policy is set by central government and it is that which is flawed.

There's several hundred acres around where I live that historically was always thought unfit for building, about 10 years ago houses started popping up and the once pennyless farmer that owns the land is now worth £70m.

[DimPrawn]

There's several hundred acres around where I live that historically was always thought unfit for building, about 10 years ago houses started popping up and the once pennyless farmer that owns the land is now worth £70m.

Building on flood plains:

Everyones a winner (except the taxpayer).

Land owners become rich.
Councils become rich.
Property developers become rich.
Estate agents become rich.

Then, when it floods, which it will, we can blame "global warming" and that means 4x4 drivers, and so we can tax the sh1t out of them and the government become rich.

[ASB]

There's several hundred acres around where I live that historically was always thought unfit for building, about 10 years ago houses started popping up and the once pennyless farmer that owns the land is now worth £70m.

If it's the developments round locking castle/morrisons etc then that was - I beleive - in the structure plan for the original expansion of WSM. It wasn't thought unfit for building, just too expensive. rising property values changed that.

[ASB]

Then, when it floods, which it will, we can blame "global warming" and that means 4x4 drivers, and so we can tax the tulip out of them and the government become rich.

Bugger. The road tax is bad enough, but having to pay for Gloustershire too...

[gingerjedi]

If it's the developments round locking castle/morrisons etc then that was - I beleive - in the structure plan for the original expansion of WSM. It wasn't thought unfit for building, just too expensive. rising property values changed that.

Hmm too expensive to build on but fit to graze donkeys? Up and down the country it was no coincidence that a majority of houses we saw flooded were new or fairly recent builds. I guess it is expensive to build on marshland but when you have nowhere else and rising property prices make it irresistible… sod em’.

[TimberWolf]

Up and down the country it was no coincidence that a majority of houses we saw flooded were new or fairly recent builds.

Take a look at this picture:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/...stions124a.jpg

Tewkesbury Abbey, built in 1102...

[DimPrawn]

Take a look at this picture:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/...stions124a.jpg

Tewkesbury Abbey, built in 1102...

And it isn't flooded.

[gingerjedi]

Take a look at this picture:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/...stions124a.jpg

Tewkesbury Abbey, built in 1102...

Yes sitting on a small peak surrounded by low land, what the picture doesn’t show is the modern estates that surround Tewkesbury... all flooded.

Kind of proves my point don’t you think?

[TimberWolf]

Kind of proves my point don’t you think?

Yes, admirably I thought.