A beautiful place on upper reaches. People have some really nice pads up there. Only problem is that if you want an expensive house with a big boat at bottom of garden, then expect at some time the river flooding you out. You should have a plan A for such events and fencing to suit keeping water out. Covers etc over floor vents and sand bags ready. Cannot stop Mother Nature.
There was someone on telly yesterday with a flooded house saying "the government should do something about it" rather than saying "I really should have thought about it a bit more before buying this house built on the flood plane".
There was a phone-in on the radio yesterday which I listened to and one caller summed it by saying... ' We have every sympathy for you, the disruption to your life and the damage to your property but please stop blaming the Government, local council, environment agency or anybody else because you and you alone made the decision to buy a house on a flood plain and that was at risk of flooding’.
Those poor people Not only having to cope with the floods but also the politicians arriving at your doorstep in their wellies.
No, that's not fair. If people can move into a new build house/flat next to a long established business and get them shut down on environmental grounds, why can't the council move the river because it is causing me a nuisance.
On the estate where I live (Brampton), there is a kids playground in the middle. It was on the plans when we first moved in (12 years ago), but it didn't stop someone moving in across from it and trying very hard to have it shut. Luckily he lost the battle, but did apparently make enough reports to the police to make it one of the high nuisence crime areas in South Yorkshire.
It has escaped most supposedly educated people, that communities, towns and cities are founded and established on the country's major waterways. It's the same all over the world. It was and is the source and the lifeblood of communities, their livelihoods, transport, trade and commerce. The people who live inland, or on higher ground, depended on these communities to bring them the goods they need and transport the goods they would trade. We all depend on and benefit from the geographic position of these communities, historically and still. If you don't get this, then you really have been living at the top of a hill, as my Mam would say. Still, fck em eh? Let's take the piss out of them, then bugger off to Meadowhall to buy lots of crap we don't need just because we can!!
