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Why Should Everyone Pay?
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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.
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.
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// 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? // it's a matter of scale - and because of the reason for the barrier. it wasn't built to protect individual riverside properties from floods caused by the river, but to protect the entire london flood plain area from...
13:40 Tue 26th Jan 2021
// 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? //
it's a matter of scale - and because of the reason for the barrier.
it wasn't built to protect individual riverside properties from floods caused by the river, but to protect the entire london flood plain area from exceptionally high tides or storm surges that would use the thames as their gateway.
it's a matter of scale - and because of the reason for the barrier.
it wasn't built to protect individual riverside properties from floods caused by the river, but to protect the entire london flood plain area from exceptionally high tides or storm surges that would use the thames as their gateway.
