I agree with John Gummer that the government should use the Housing Act to prevent further developments in at-risk areas. Even as we watch unprecedented flooding taking plot in northern counties,planning authorities here in the south are contemplating building on floodplains and their environs. Whatever the pressures for current housing land in the overcrowded south, the move is short-sighted and should be resisted.
Marion Pope
Bournemouth• gain we unlearned how to manage rainfall once it hits UK soil? Around the corner, and there is a current estate built on a slope. Virtually no trees,no grass to soak up the moisture (or for the children to play on), front gardens tiled to accommodate cars. A few hundred metres absent, or a 1950s estate – front and back gardens,lots of grass in public spaces, mature trees. A current climatic era poses current challenges and demands current strategies – but planners might make a start by refraining from flushing generations of common sense down the drain.
Paul Tattam
Chinley, and DerbyshireContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com