Tuesday, Jan 15, 2008
Homeowners on a flood plane are moaning again!
bbc: Stormy weather raises flood fears
Families and householders hit by last summer's flooding are bracing themselves for more severe weather.
It beggars belief that someone would buy a house on a flood plane and expect sympathy, or even an insurance policy. I know this is a bit off topic, but relevant just because many property developers have been buying cheap "floodplane" land and not passing this information on to the buyers..
Posted by george monsoon @ 09:11 AM (1205 views) Add Comment
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1. cornishman said...
Ha ha. Stormy weather... George MONSOON. very good!
2. lierbag said...
I live in Wirral, where builders have just been given clearance to build a large new housing development - on a flood plain. I wonder if potential purchasers (some of whom may be from outside the area) will be made fully aware of these circumstances? Certainly, any insurance companies or mortgage providers will be.
3. mrmickey said...
It also appears that many of these new houses have very little garden to speak of and the surrounding area has been concreted over to provide drives and parking spaces, all that is required is a blocked drain and their up to their knees in water with no green spaces to provide additional drainage.
4. Bloke111 said...
Plain not plane!
5. jack c said...
From yesterdays Daily Mail - Almost two million new homes will have to be built just to cope with the immigrant influx, peers will be told tomorrow. It means 263 houses must be constructed every day - for almost 20 years – the equivalent of five cities the size of Birmingham during the next 18 years. Four in 10 of all new homes will go to new migrants, a report by Migrationwatch UK claims.
No doubt if this ever went ahead (which I suspect is unlikely) most of it would be built on flood plains
The real relevance of this topic to HPC is that due to increased flooding some people who think they are sitting in a house worth £200k are actually in a worthless house - ie in future (a) who would buy it (b) who will insure it.
6. Phdinbubbles said...
The City of London is built on a flood plain.
Perhaps it should be demolished?
7. Adrian said...
There is one house that get continually flooded near me everytime there is a storm, it was on the market for just £50k and failed to get a buyer.
The price is cheap so automatically people question whats wrong with it.
Well flooding is bad enough, but it has a septic tank, so everytime the house floods all the crap from this flows into the house as well.
8. Loachduke said...
Won't the proposed HIP's be the stopper for these shady property developers?
9. doomwatch said...
monsoon, it's not as off topic as you think if you aquaint yourself with the Florida land bubble of the 1920s which
ended in misery owing to flooding.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_land_boom_of_the_1920's
10. Dazednconfused said...
Alot of people have houses in areas prone to flooding but which did not flood. Developers have built in these areas on flood plains, but protected the new developments from the flooding. Guess where the water goes.... into people's houses that have stood for hundreds of years and never used to flood. It's not as simple as you make it out to be. These owners should have recourse to sue the developers for basically diverting the floods into their properties.
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