On Monday, 2 March 2020 03:03:29 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 01/03/2020 23:05, Steve Walker wrote:
On 01/03/2020 20:27, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:

I often wonder why nobody builds houses on stilts these days.
Â* Brian

While it makes sense from a flood point of view, it does rather cause a
problem with the level access requirements of Part M.

Ramps, or simply say that disabled people should not visit or live there.

people become disabled as they get old, lack of wheelchair access is a real & mostly unnecessary problem. But it still beats no houses. Regs could include exception situations. A ramp on a block of flats cuts cost per unit a lot.


Having built a house, and landscaped a garden, moving earth around is
not that big a deal

you could make a huge lake and use the spoil to build berms and pop the
houses on top.

I think PP should not be given to development plans that will obviously flood living areas. There are ways to avoid the problem, and no sensible reason to build houses that way.


NT