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dennis@home wrote:

What people forget is that flood plains are natures way of controlling
floods and if you build on them you will get flooded. What's needed is
some sanity and to stop building where you shouldn't and pull the houses
down that do flood frequently rather than *moving* the floods to
somewhere else by building flood defences.

You can't do that. Planning departments are infamous for lack of
common sense. A relative was plagued by a damp patch on his dining room
wall. In desperation, he lifted the floor boards and found that he was
looking at his reflection in the water under the floor. By chance, I
talked to someone who lived in the area and he said that he wondered
what would happen when they built that group of houses on the local
duck pond! Relative moved quickly.
It used to be the responsibility of the Rivers Authority to assess the
impact of all housing developments on the local waterways and streams.
--
bert