Stopping the floods - time to think out of the box

The answer is........................STOP BUILDING ON FLOOD PLAINS!!!!

And if you're stupid enough to buy a house that is built on a flood plain, stop moaning about getting your feet wet. Oh and either build and/or fund the flood defences yourselves, why should the tax payer fund it.

Hope that is clear enough!

The answer is........................STOP BUILDING ON FLOOD PLAINS!!!!

And if you're stupid enough to buy a house that is built on a flood plain, stop moaning about getting your feet wet. Oh and either build and/or fund the flood defences yourselves, why should the tax payer fund it.

Hope that is clear enough!

Write your comments here...Taxpayers have already paid for the Flood defences, only the Government has spent the money on other things....Like propping up the Banks.(that should have been allowed to fail) use Bob Diamonds fortune to fund Yorks  flood defences.Or Godwins  Pension pot. Plenty of spare cash there.

It’s not just flood plains (how many are there in Cumbria?). I’m sure that flooding arises from many things and it’s common to want to blame them all on someone else. We have been content to cover the land with more and more hard surfaces without much concern for the consequences. Any rain landing on it flows away immediately rather than sinking into the soil to flow away later. Those surfaces vary from the paving for off-road parking, expansion of the road network, and even paths up into the fells. As we become more populated such activities are unlikely to diminish yet they are some that we have more direct control over than the weather.

The answer is........................STOP BUILDING ON FLOOD PLAINS!!!!

And if you're stupid enough to buy a house that is built on a flood plain, stop moaning about getting your feet wet. Oh and either build and/or fund the flood defences yourselves, why should the tax payer fund it.

Hope that is clear enough!

Write your comments here...DS 3 who do you think payed and continue to pay for the sea defences after the 1953 floods in Lincolnshire? do you think that the taxpayer should stop paying for those and let the residents of Lincolnshire pay for them ? or just be prepared to get your feet wet.

The self-serving banks and building societies share some of the blame as if they didn't give mortgages for these flood-risk properties the developers wouldn't build them.

I watched 'Waterworld' last night. I thought it was a 'real-life' documentary on the recent floods until I realised that the farmer they were following was Kevin Costner. He doesn't live in the lake district..

What?

FYI it is raining again here in Yorkshire.Last night I had a  delayed,cold ,wet and bumpy ride home from Huddersfield on our antediluvian local Pacer train service with water running in through the windows and all along the carriage floors- hence being a tad resentful about  constant cuts to infrastructure spending "up North".I squelched my way home down sodden,unlit paths only  to see the misery that the Scots and the Lakes District endured that night on the TV.

Cheer up KE, I understand we are getting some of London's cast off carriages in the not too distant future.

Cheer up KE, I understand we are getting some of London's cast off carriages in the not too distant future.

 

Write your comments here...breathless with the anticipation of such largesse from our "betters" ,TDA!

Cheer up KE, I understand we are getting some of London's cast off carriages in the not too distant future.

 

Write your comments here...breathless with the anticipation of such largesse from our "betters" ,TDA!

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