howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Existing towns formed around river valleys so development always happens around existing sites so it is enevitable they are in flood plains, but people don't want developments in green belt so it's a lose-lose situation !
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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if we kept our population down to reasonable levels there would be no need for further development.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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The daft thing about some areas in or around villages is that you cannot sensibly infill between two properties without a planning fight even when there are no local objections. Half a dozen houses on green belt would have few problems but it is usually a field that a builder wants to cover with loads of his little boxes.
It is not so much the housing itself that is the problem it is all the tarmac that accompanies them plus the lack of provision for any surplus surface water to escape safely.
Where a river is routinely prone to flooding surely one answer would be to have several large landscaped pits of some kind along the route that could act as a reservoir in dry periods. I suppose then the must not change the countryside brigade would then complain.
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Nothing to do with housing development Howard the floods were down to climate change. David Cameron knows this but is in denial.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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The need for more housing is partly drive by past and present governments policies on immigration.
And the conservatives have just rubber stamped, and pleaded for more expansion of the EU to another 29 million people to have the rights to UK residency.
flooding
Most flooding in these areas are spasmodic, and around a maximum of 2 ft
Lots of country's overcome tropical rain and flash flooding by building on stilts.
With the necessary ecstatics ,decking and screening.
And the building of more reservoirs to prevent rives overflowing in some parts would help with flooding and water storage.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Rather than build pig ugly estates all over our Country, Councils need to introduce a policy of 100% council tax on empty houses. That will encourage owners of empty homes to rent them out instead of leaving them empty.
Only houses undergoing general structural renovation should be exempt from council tax for a limited and reasonable period.
In Dover, for example, we have SO many empty houses and apartments!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The relief on empty homes is being removed Alexander.
Roger