DEFEATING THE RISING COST OF FLOODING

摘要

In June 2007 many areas in the UK experienced unprecedented floods, leaving over 55,000 homes and businesses damaged or in a state of disrepair and costing the country in the region of ￡3 billion.With the regularity and, indeed, severity of flooding across the UK undoubtedly intensifying over the past decade, Frank Kelly, Chief Executive of UK Flood Barriers, considers how home defences can help residents defeat the devastation and rising costs of flooding, while allowing developers to utilise floodplains and otherwise untenable land