Building on flood plains

[PeteXXX]

Realising that this might end up in The Other Place, I'll start it off here.

5,000 new homes are planned to be built between Milton Keynes & Newport Pagnell..

This is the site.
What could possibly go wrong!!?

~ Local rag linkie ~

😢

 

[postman]

Who is the builder Noah and Sons builders of fine wooden modular homes,with years of experience.

 

[Drago]

I know that area very well indeed, having lived nearby for some years as a teenager, and not that far away now.

It has flooded multiple times every year since I was first in the area at age 13.

I don't know which is worse, that someone wants to build on it or that the carncil granted planning permission.

 

[presta]

 

[AndyRM]

Good luck getting home insurance on a domicile there...

 

[cougie uk]

Less houses and more narrow boats. Sorted.

 

[Donger]

Reminds me of the new estate they started building in Tewkesbury under the name "The Water Meadow". No prizes for guessing what happened.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

There was an old field/scrubland/wast ground place near where I grew up

In winter it always flooded - even if there wasn;t exceptional rain then it still flooded

WHen I was about 30 ish they build houses on it - a friend of my Dad's bought a house on it so before he signed the deal my Dad went through the problems
a) the flooding
b) there was a big car boot sale next door to it all every Saturday in summer and the place was crowded

But he bought it anyway based on assurance from the builder

and it never flooded!

just shows that sometimes the builders know what they are doing - and do it!!


but most of the stuff - especially down south where houses prices are sky high and houses are scarse

and they build anywhere they can put flat concrete
by whatever means

 

[classic33]

A bit like the new housing they built down Mytholmroyd, and Hebden Bridge. Both on known flood plains that were school playing grounds and nothing else for that reason.

 

[Drago]

In fact MK carncil have form for this.

Some years back a developer wanted to build flats in Newport Pagnell. The locals objected p, not least on the grounds that the site flooded regularly. The council said they were satisfied the new flood mitigation measures would be effective and granted permission.

The very next day the town awoke to see the site underwater!

The only concession the developers made was to rejig the design so the garages were under the flats, but who wants their car ruined or to be trapped in or out of their property every time it rains heavily?

A failure of successive governments to knock heads together over this sort of thing.

 

[Kingfisher101]

Good luck getting home insurance on a domicile there...

All properties that could be affected by flooding can get insurance now. There's a special insurance called flood re, that the homeowner can get.https://floodassist.co.uk/insurance/flood-re-insurance

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

All properties that could be affected by flooding can get insurance now. There's a special insurance called flood re, that the homeowner can get.https://floodassist.co.uk/insurance/flood-re-insurance

Nice and cheap no doubt!

 

[Kingfisher101]

Nice and cheap no doubt!

Yes It has to be affordable, not extortionate. There's been quite a lot on the T.V and in the papers about the scheme. Looks like you have missed it all?

 

[AndyRM]

Yes It has to be affordable, not extortionate. There's been quite a lot on the T.V and in the papers about the scheme. Looks like you have missed it all?

Not enough apparently.

 

[oldwheels]

In Oban a car park was put beside Lochside St.
In heavy rain lots of cars floating about. Surprise, surprise.

My old workshop,the garage business next to it and a cottage in Tobermory could be affected by high tides pushed by southerly gales. All electrics were three feet from the floor and all materials and machinery could be lifted off floor level. Got flooded three times to a depth of a couple of feet but no losses and it was only a nuisance. Disastrous to the cottage and garage tho’.
The whole Main St is supplied with sandbags and a flood defence wall has been built.