unsellable homes !

[julian]

what´s this I hear on the news today about 1 million un-insurable,un-sellable and un-inhabitable homes ??!!!...where??? in the UK !!!! will those of you with properties in the UK be jumping ship now ???

[gerryh]

If you had listened to the full report then you would know these houses haven't been built yet.
They are new houses that might be built on flood planes. Given the recent floods in the UK this seems to me to bean incredibly stupid idea.
Cheers
Gerry

[julian]

don´t spoil it Gerry, since when did the details and facts matter in the headlines of a shock-horror story !!! they never have done in the stories about Spain, so why should they about the UK ???

[gerryh]

Hi Julian
Very true. Why let the facts spoil a good story.

I still think it's an incredibly stupid idea. I would have thought the word 'flood' in flood plane would give a hint as to what will happen when it rains.
The report went on to suggest that a large sum of money would be spent on flood defences. All this will do is to move the flood downstream and flood somebody else.

[julian]

the world has become one giant "manicomio"

[bob]

Julian, it has been, is now and ever shall be whirled without end.

[Don]

Actually Gerry, flood defences cause upstream flooding when on a river, they create a bottleneck so the upstream catchment cant drain and is forced out of its channels.

For years it has been crazy to allow building in flood plains but we can look to the developers greed for this as flood plain agricultural land is cheaper than the better "drained" land so they can make more bucks when they sell the houses to the punters at "the market price".