In message , Col
writes
So you buy a house on a flood plain and then want public money to stop it
flooding.. even worse than expecting a payout if it gets flooded.

The Thames barrier is intended to prevent central London from flooding.
As our capital city such an occurance would be catastrophic.

The Thames barrier won't protect such developments as the 'Thames Gateway'
or whatever the hell it's called, and indeed was never intended to.

I wholeheartedly agree thogh that building houses on flood plains is
complete insanity.
Also, people that get flooded who weren't adequately insured should expect
no help from the Government.

But a point of information which I heard last week

"we've been building on flood plains for thousands of years"

it's more a matter of degree


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geoff