I just came across this interesting statistic that hundreds of houses in Essex have been built on flood plains and have very little to add except my comment below the figures.
New homes in Flood Zone 3 areas
Between the years 2015-2018
- Castle Point – 47 per cent, 185 homes
- Thurrock – 18 per cent, 401 homes
- Harlow – 12 per cent, 104 houses
- Maldon – 10 per cent, 65 houses
- Tendring – 8 per cent, 113 homes
- Colchester – 7 per cent, 193 homes
- Chelmsford 0 7 per cent, 206 homes
- Rochford – 6 per cent, 36 homes
- Epping Forest – 6 per cent, 57 homes
- Brentwood – 5 per cent, 22 homes
- Uttlesford – 2 per cent, 43 homes
- Southend-on-Sea – 1 per cent, 18 homes
- Basildon – 0 per cent, 5 houses
- Braintree – 0 per cent, 2 houses
SHOULDN’T THE ANSWER BE ZERO HOUSES BUILT ON FLOOD ZONES?
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One would think, but it’s common all over the world. Then people moan and cry about climate change when they simply live in a flood zone. Climate happens. Change happens. Floods happen.
Quite right.