Hereford house plan…..

[paulhelenwilko]

Just found this on BBC news website.

Greyfriars Avenue: Stilts plan for flood-hit Hereford home

The homeowner says his house is "effectively condemned" by the frequency of River Wye flooding.

www.bbc.com

 

[runnach]

I don’t know the history of this particular area, are there no plans for flood defences so locals are not at the mercy of the river during heavy rain periods which is becoming the norm?

 

[maingate]

I don’t know the history of this particular area, are there no plans for flood defences so locals are not at the mercy of the river during heavy rain periods which is becoming the norm?

On that side of the river the house in the photograph is the last one. Upstream there are school playing fields and then farmland. All of them look liable to flooding. On the opposite side of the river the ground is much higher and well above the flood plain (which is effectively what the other side of the river is). There are plenty of houses which are well above flood levels over that side.

The Rowing Club is in the same predicament as that house. Maybe they should change it to a Sub Aqua Club.

 

[St3v3]

When this floods properly it's DEEP.

 

[wildebus]

I don't understand why houses in flood-affected areas are not built "on stilts" as standard.

 

[RichardHelen262]

Here is the road with one of its many floods

 

[runnach]

Here is the road with one of its many floods

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That is grim, you can only feel sorrow for the residents affected, I really do not know what the answer is, apart from council allowing development to take place initially held accountable.

 

[St3v3]

When you look at the area that floods when it's like that the volume of water is mind boggling

 

[HurricaneSmith]

In order to see Mappa Mundi and Chained Books we took a bus and visited Hereford Cathedral earlier this year. Whilst there we descended into the crypt and the smell from the long term damp and green mould was intense.

It must surely affect local people's chest and breathing.

 

[maingate]

In order to see Mappa Mundi and Chained Books we took a bus and visited Hereford Cathedral earlier this year. Whilst there we descended into the crypt and the smell from the long term damp and green mould was intense.

It must surely affect local people's chest and breathing.

That's because the criminal crept into the crypt and crapped.

 

[Tim120]

Think there is a flood level marker on the rowing club that is almost, if not at first floor level.
That is more than a few olympic swimming pools worth of water.

 

[HurricaneSmith]

That's because the criminal crept into the crypt and crapped.

It all happens in church.

At Petworth House there is an astonishing painting by Steenwyck the Younger (circa 1580) which brilliantly illustrates perspective in an imagined cathedral.

What most folk don't notice is that in the foreground is a stout man being robbed by a thief. Churches, den's of iniquity.

 

[marymary]

Wow!!!! That’s scarey!!!!