Rain falls badly on the flood plains, say critics

Yorkshire Post;  June 28, 2007 ;     481 words ......and Kingswood in Hull - were built on flood plains. Both sites have again proved extremely...properties were still being built on flood plains despite warnings from experts. The Environment...specifically warning against building on flood plains. Of the 3,650 planning applications...

FLOYD TAUGHT STATE ABOUT FLOOD HAZARDS BUT WITHOUT NEW MAPS, OFFICIALS...

The Virginian Pilot;  December 20, 1999 ;     587 words ......used to buy out homes and business in flood plains, local officials say they have little...tell people if they are building in flood plains and how high they should build the first...make better decisions about building in flood plains. Additionally, the maps would show that...

Will flood cover be washed away? Teresa Hunter reports on the latest...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ......regulations governing property development on flood plains. Or at least, such is the view of insurers...developers away from developing the flood plains," according to a spokesman for the Department...combined value of pounds 35bn, are built on flood plains. A key part of the ...

[1] Editorials.(News)(Editorial)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  May 1, 2001 ;     413 words ...Keep homes out of flood plains West of here, people have spent...But people who choose to live in flood plains aren't suffering from random disasters...and hurricanes. People who live in flood plains know, or ought to know, that they...

'Time bomb' homes built on flood plains

The Northern Echo;  May 8, 2008 ;     501 words ......at least 7,593 homes are proposed on flood plains or at- risk areas. Twenty-one local...than 2,000 homes planned on potential flood plains. Sunderland City Council said that...authorities said no homes were planned on flood plains. They included Richmondshire, Tynedale...

Letter: Flood prevention

The Independent - London;  November 9, 1999 ;     227 words ......Butler's excellent article "Bring back flood plains - to stop flooding" (6 November) concludes...developments that have already occurred" on flood plains. This does not prevent us trying to...part, to the practice of building on flood plains. Yet, within a year of the flooding...

Country & Garden: Bring back flood plains - to stop flooding Nature's way,...

The Independent - London;  November 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ......regarding the root cause of flooding - flood plains - as problems, they were treated as...small areas. Instead he points to larger flood plains as critical to the survival of many...activity have transformed Britain's flood plains. Agriculture has changed beyond recognition...

Spotlight on the flood plains risk.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  September 1, 2004 ;     399 words ......plays in preventing the development of flood plains. The Environment Agency has warned that...300,000 new homes could be built on flood plains in England and Wales before 2024. This...tropical downpours, spells trouble. Flood plains are important as they allow land to...

Don't build on flood plains

Derby Evening Telegraph;  July 19, 2007 ;     180 words ......redevelopment. But should we over-develop flood plains? From my early geography lessons I learned that flood plains are there for a purpose They act as...Derby is not the only place where flood plains are being proposed as areas for development...

Noah wouldn't buy here; but a lot of people keep building homes on flood...

U.S. News & World Report;  June 4, 1990 ;     700+ words ......lot of people keep building homes on flood plains After receiving several death threats...stopped development on the nation's flood plains, where more than 16.8 million households...FEMA demands only that structures in flood plains be elevated to the high-water mark of...

Hospital plan is a wash-out!; WALSGRAVE BOSS DENIES 'UNDERWATER' SITE...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  November 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Hayley Cuthbertson DEVELOPMENTS on flood plains have been partly blamed for the worst...Environment to clamp down on building on flood plains - and they could have implications for...local authorities to avoid building on flood plains wherever possible, and force them to...

Flood plains were put there for a reason

The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 15, 2000 ;     346 words ......developers to build houses, schools and supermarkets on flood plains. Flood plains are there for a reason. They permit periodic flooding...intervals over time. We all knew this once, and flood plains were never built upon. But since the Sixties...

LONDON VOX POP ; Should the Government scale back plans to build houses on...

Evening Standard - London;  July 25, 2007 ;     242 words ......off. The fact that we have built on flood plains in the past does not excuse plans to...blacklisting the one million households on flood plains. The insurance pay-outs and compensation...building, they have built on fertile flood plains. It's not building on them that's the...

Stop flood plains misery As Gloucestershire residents hit by the floods...

Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......many more new homes on our vulnerable flood plains Our common future will be increasingly...maintains that "building new homes in the flood plains should not be ruled out". The Office...100,000 homes on the Thames Estuary flood plains, on land that in many parts flooded...

Farming to Be Banned on Flood Plains Inside Dams.

Korea Times (Seoul, Korea);  March 30, 2001 ;     179 words ......Resources Corp. (KWRC) said yesterday. Flood plains are areas inside reservoirs that fill...As of January, the total size of the flood plains on the upper streams of the nine dams...said. ``We will strictly monitor the flood plains to provide clean water to the public...