Cuts come home to roost Failure to act on global warming Allowing Farmers to clear high ground woodland/growth meaning that water flashes straight off the ground. Terrible for those affected.
Yes, feel for them. However, this move to urbanise and particularly into green belt land will only make things worse. Make better use of brownbelt sites I say.
Not quite right that. Any new development has to improve the surface run off rate so if developing greenfield land attenuation drainage systems have to be built in. Brownfield sites meanwhile often sit in flood plain areas and the push to develop these instead of green belt land often puts new housing in flood areas. Of course flood protection measures could be designed in and funded by the profit from the new homes but landowners (increasingly supported by legislation from this government ) can usually argue that this shouldn't come off their extortionate land value return.
Seems to me we have the will/technology/finance for HR2, whereby, for most of us it, they'll be little or no benefits, yet nothing on offer to make life better on the residential front. Ah well, as long as we can cut the Journey time from a Northern city to London by about a quarter to a third then that's all that matters.
OK - we are experiencing much higher levels of rainfall, so flooding will occur. But, a large part of flooding is because the European Union paid farmers to drain and put sub-surface drains into floodplain areas so farmers could squeeze every little once of money out of their land. Throughout the country crops are now grown right up to the side of rivers. As soon as it rains, farmland drains take the water straight into the nearest river - causing rivers to quickly overload. The European Union and the Common Agricultural Policy has a lot to answer for.
