St Asaph is 10 minutes from me and its awful there. I feel so sorry for anyone who is affected, it must be awful having your home flooded. Luckily where I live is safe. Where I work is ok, but the river inbetween them is the one which has burst and flooded everywhere in St Asaph so I may not be in work tomorrow......St Asaph is flooded, just watching the local news. It looks quite bad. we are just a few miles away but thankfully we are ok.
isn't it time we started abandoning housing estates built on flood plains, and not building any more in the future?
Well now, if you're going to start with that defeatist talk. Obviously, we keep building, and the water will eventually give up and behave. After all we Must Have More Houses!
There's a plot of land next to the Fulford Road on the edge of York, that's been 'Acquired For Development' for several years - firstly by Persimmon, laterly by Hogg. It's next to Germany Beck. A Beck, people may know, is a stream. The road is probably only a few hundred yards from the Ouse, and the ground is all low lying. That part of the road is closed by floods at least once a year - twice now in the last 2 months. I don't know whether the developers are actually sensible enough not to develop it after all, or if the lack of building is just down to planning or financial constraints. Anyone building houses there that weren't on stilts would be mad.
..and how about the building companies who seize upon land that no-one, literally no-one, in their right mind would consider simply because it is in a high house price, schools catchment area. The fact that it is also in a high rain catchment area deters them not at all. Germany Beck for example:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9662959.Bid_to_revoke_Germany_Beck_planning_consent/
The site is almost undoubtedly under a metre or two of water as I write!