Stopping the floods - time to think out of the box

The Gov't says we need to build 250,000 new homes this year and they also tell us the there was a net influx to this country in 2013 of 225,000 people.

It doesn't take Einstein to work out why we have to build cheap and on unsuitable land.

 

Write your comments here...I feel great sympathy when I see properties built in the 1800s and early 1900s flooded, but little or no sympathy to properties built after 1952, when flood damage risk and ways to build against it were well known about (I remember,the floods of 1952). Building on flood plains without adequate flood protection isn't just Stupid, it's  criminally dangerous.

With talk about missiles and govt. not spending money why hasn't a moderator stopped this thread, certainly there is a political angle 

I moved to Lowestoft in June 2015 , the houses about a mile up the road were badly flooded in July 2015 , they were up to their waiste in water , why because the houses had been built on a marshy land the rivers had not been dredged because of wild life living there etc etc and the river itself joined the sea , it was months before anyone accepted responsibility , they cleaned the river out themselves , why has it got to be a struggle to get anything done !

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-flooding-how-a-town-in-yorkshire-worked-with-nature-to-stay-dry/ar-BBo8QTY?li=AAaeUIW&ocid=HPCDHP

Perhaps more thinking like the above needed

Every area has different things to consider, down here with some sections on peat based soil houses have to have to be built on deep piles. I lived in a mining area when growing up with new houses built on rafts to avoid subsidence and I went to a "rock and school" also built on rafts. Some of the solutions will work I hope, but older houses will be depending on better planned general schemes. Civil engineers will be busy!

Each county should be responsible for creating and maintaining their own flood defenses. Their councils caused the problem by allowing building on land which could flood.      A national approach to flood defense will not work as there will always be an area which gets preferrential treatment. No prizes for guessing which area this could be.

A few pounds increase in the council tax should fund the flood defenses in the appropriate counties. 

K

A few pounds increase in the council tax should fund the flood defenses in the appropriate counties. 

 

As I don't live on a flood plain and not at risk, I don't particularly want to fund everyones misfortune. Those at risk can pay the extra Council Tax and get protection.

There seems to be only one town that has escaped the floods because they ignored the "experts" ,and listened to people who understood that there is more than huge flood defences to tackle  the problem ,by reducing the amount of water running off the hills , and that is Pickering  

I was reading an article in a paper that said that under an EU directive from 2000 to do with inland waterways we are not allowed too dredge the rivers.It went on too compair the flooding in Yorkshire which comes down off the hills too the Somerset levels which are flat and dont have hills.According too the article the levels have four rivers too take water away but they still flooded because the rivers are silted up.It also said that most other EU countries just quietly ignore this directive but we dont.It did,nt say if the directive was an enviromental issue or a conservation one.

peter.