The spokesperson for DEFRA or similar said building on floodplains is silly. No **** Sherlock!
A new 3 mile long £120 million single carriageway road has been built right across a valley floor which floods every year. The purpose of the road is to open up land in the valley for development - housing and businesses! Never mind that its an area of special scientific interest and natural beauty.
Elsewhere a colleague purchased a very expensive house only to find a bill for £200 p/a land on his door for pumping services - the estate gets flooded and the builders fitted a small pumping station and the running costs are several thousand a year, shared amongst the houses. All OK until it goes wrong!
What are the planners on when they allow this!
BTW, just north of the town is an equivalent area of land that is not on a floodplain. There is a road there and some large private estates. It would have been far more suitable for development but the local / county council did not own the land. Why didn't they use it? More expensive to buy the land I guess.
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