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Floods. How preventable?
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Sharron | Report | 8 Jan 2014 22:46 |
I have lived in this house for fifty years this month and only moved from down the road. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Jan 2014 22:55 |
I think quite a lot could have been avoided. Gone are the men travelling around the place clearing ditches AND clearing tree/shrub growth from road signs. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 8 Jan 2014 23:09 |
I have seen industrial estates built on marshland so built that there is a "wild life pond" where people sit at picnic tables in summer admire the view and have their lunch, different story in winter though when the car park floods. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 9 Jan 2014 00:03 |
I tend to agree that the building on land only causes problems, |
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ZZzzz | Report | 10 Jan 2014 21:22 |
Went out and about yesterday and some places looked like they had always been ponds or lakes, in fact they were fields a few days ago :-( |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 11 Jan 2014 06:59 |
There is talk of houses being built on the field at the end of the garden here. This whole estate of housing was built on fields in the 1970s. The water table in the back garden is high, sometimes water comes up between the paving on the small patio when it's really wet and the lawn at the mo is like a bog. Sometimes if the drain outside is blocked the water floods up to the step outside the front door (no front gardens, just a couple of yards of grass to the kerb. All along the road which has closes and cul de sacs off it, are flooded areas with large puddles at the slightest bit of rain. The field has big puddles in it, so what will happen to all the water if houses are built there? It has to go somewhere. There are no rivers close by. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 11 Jan 2014 10:16 |
Liz, that sounds quite like where we are, builders are fighting to get planning permission to build houses and a massive shopping centre on what was a farm and we are in a very small village! :-| |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 11 Jan 2014 10:33 |
For those who are fighting planning permission for building on soggy ground - it sounds as if a series of current photos of the conditions might help to sway the Planning committee. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 11 Jan 2014 11:11 |
Exactly you can't beat nature! Not rocket science is it :-) |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 11 Jan 2014 12:01 |
If people are daft enough to buy builders spec houses built on flood plains, millionaire mansions beside the Thames or quaint characterful cottages and pubs near the Severn, Trent, Somerset levels, the middle of York and so on THEN it is difficult to feel a shred of sympathy. |
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Sharron | Report | 11 Jan 2014 13:32 |
There is a very good and detailed late 18c map of Sussex (Yeakell and Gardner).It is pre-enclosure and shows areas of waste which are continuations of Pagham Harbour. |
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BrianW | Report | 11 Jan 2014 14:21 |
Most new houses and roads have surface water drains leading into rivers when a soakaway or catch pond would slow the release down and prevent flash floods. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 11 Jan 2014 14:24 |
When we look at the estate my MIL lives on, built 1980s it is blatantly obvious that they squeezed two more houses on the road she lives on, it is impossible to have a car parked in front of it and have room to put dustbins on the edge of the property AND no one can walk past with a pushchair and not go in the road on dustbin day, all so builders can make as much money as they can cos they are greedy, you don't see many poor builders. Rant over. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 12 Jan 2014 01:50 |
In this cul de sac the builders forgot to allow for footpaths in front of the houses with proper gardens. O.h. and neighbour have grassed area outside their houses but it's not fenced off, it is rarely used as a path tho as people walk in the road, as they have to on either side of the roadway to the main close. Luckily the cul de sac is never very busy with traffic or it would be so dangerous. |