Why Should Everyone Pay?

[teacake44]

If you choose to live in a picturess village next to a river, and lets face it a lot of these properties can be expensive, why should the rest of the country have to pay for work to be done to protect you're property from flooding. Everyone knows what the risk can be living near a river. If you want to live there you pay for it, not me.

What bought this on? just listening to local radio, and we have the same people complaining that the council/ government are not doing enough, and they can't get insurance cover. Well tuf move if you can't afford to keep revamping.

[Sqad]

LOL.....
I agree, areas near rivers have been flooding for centuries and if you want this picturesque existence, then you must be expected to deal financially with natural adversities.
I agree Teacake.

[THECORBYLOON]

How much was spent on flood barriers in the Thames? Should that just be allowed to flood with no regard to the impact?

[Spicerack]

Apples and pears, imo, corby.

[teacake44]

Yes Sqad I was just listening to someone who owns a property that almost sits on the river bank, I know it well. She says that shes only just finished re- vamping from last years floods. Bearing in mind this is a property that she rents out at £1800 per month, ie, a business in other words. She says she's only just re- rented it out, and now she's back to square one. Well sorry but thats just a bad business move. Tuf

[teacake44]

TCL. Thats a whole different ball game, and I think you know that?

[tamborine]

If a property is not insurable, dont buy it! If its built on a flood plain, sue the builder.

[THECORBYLOON]

It's only a difference in scale but why does your reasoning not also apply to those by the Thames?

[alavahalf]

The property owners who live by the river.. do you ever hear them whinging when they have to pay there share towards repairing the inner city roads and the pavement that is right outside your door. ?

[teacake44]

Who said it didn't apply to those on the Thames, ( not me) its there mainly to protect the capital. I believe Paul Daniels property was flooded on the Thames when he was alive, but you didn't hear him bleating on.

[bhg481]

The same applies to people who choose to live on clifftops who complain when the cliffs start to erode.

[Spicerack]

The flood barrier in London didn't lead to flooding in New York, corby.
Just because you're so thick/tight you built your DesRes on a flood plain doesn't mean we have to flood thousands of common townsfolk out to keep you happy.

[teacake44]

13.04 They use them to get back and forth to work. They want extra funds to help them live were they choose to.

[tamborine]

Where Frazer worked with my dog Jaydah (to keep swans away) - it never flooded

https://youtu.be/OkqVtGmwiTc

[THECORBYLOON]

Why is it right for barriers to be built on the Thames but wrong to spend money on protecting folk and property from other rivers that flood?

[alavahalf]

@ 13.09 ..
They have probably never set foot on your pavement, so why should they contribute to the maintenance of your pavement ?

[Spicerack]

There's nothing wrong in investing in flood defences where viable, when we get around to it. The Green Lobby and the EU have had a lot to do with recent flooding incidents.

[THECORBYLOON]

SPICERACK, how many folk or businesses would not have had homes or been operating still but for the Thames barriers?

[Paigntonian]

My favourite is people who buy homes next to pubs and then complain about the noise.

[Spicerack]

There are flood defences on hundreds of rivers, Corby. Why are trying to make it an 'us and them' situation?

[THECORBYLOON]

"why should the rest of the country have to pay for work to be done to protect you're property from flooding."

That is the issue, money was spent on the Thames to protect property from flooding but it appears others just have to accept having no protection.