Flooding

[alandrea0]

12 hours ago, El Cid said:

When you are buying a house the solicitor is meant to highlight the flooding risk. At least I believe so.

Buyers are warned of flood risk, but it is a waste of time. If buyers and builders don't do anything to prevent water getting into their homes...

[alchresearch]

2 hours ago, alandrea0 said:

Buyers are warned of flood risk, but it is a waste of time. If buyers and builders don't do anything to prevent water getting into their homes...

Barely does a week go buy without someone crying to the newspaper about the "hundred flaws in my new build".

 

Everyone  knows a new build is a massive gamble and will be full of problems, but they must have that brand new house that has never been lived in.  There's something very wrong with this whole obsession of home ownership and trying to skip several rungs of the housing ladder.

[Longcol]

11 hours ago, alchresearch said:

Barely does a week go buy without someone crying to the newspaper about the "hundred flaws in my new build".

 

Everyone  knows a new build is a massive gamble and will be full of problems, but they must have that brand new house that has never been lived in.  There's something very wrong with this whole obsession of home ownership and trying to skip several rungs of the housing ladder.

Only a small proportion of houses affected by the Don flooding were new builds. 

 

AFAIK the Don hadn't flooded eg Bentley before 2007 - try to find anything about the Don flooding big time before 2007 (apart from the Dale Dyke Dam disaster in 1864).

 

All these people talking about "not building on floodplains" are being wise after the event (of 2007).