More than 5,000 homes in England approved to be built in flood zones | Housing Tags:Europe 5 comments So they’ll shore up the banks of the floodplain and make it some other town’s problem, downstream. Wait till you hear about the Netherlands. >More than 5m homes and businesses in England are at risk of flooding, according to Environment Agency estimates. So nothing new, a non story. It’s a wet country, flooding is always a risk Could save a lot of heartache if they were just built on stilts. insurance companies lobby for this so when the inevitable flood comes along and sweeps the homes away. ​ they justify jacking everyones insurance premiums up with the tragedy. Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
>More than 5m homes and businesses in England are at risk of flooding, according to Environment Agency estimates. So nothing new, a non story. It’s a wet country, flooding is always a risk
insurance companies lobby for this so when the inevitable flood comes along and sweeps the homes away. ​ they justify jacking everyones insurance premiums up with the tragedy.
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So they’ll shore up the banks of the floodplain and make it some other town’s problem, downstream.
Wait till you hear about the Netherlands.
>More than 5m homes and businesses in England are at risk of flooding, according to Environment Agency estimates.
So nothing new, a non story.
It’s a wet country, flooding is always a risk
Could save a lot of heartache if they were just built on stilts.
insurance companies lobby for this so when the inevitable flood comes along and sweeps the homes away.
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they justify jacking everyones insurance premiums up with the tragedy.