For the record attributions wrong. I didn't say that. (but it doesn't matter)
That is a surprise! I remember staying in a floating hotel in Northwich Cheshire some time in the mid 1990's. It is apparently long gone now:
Of course, all the services (water in/out, gas & electricity) would need to be on flexible connections
Others have commented that they do filter the water. Another thing they do is reduce the speed of flow. The flow rate is what erodes structures; it's less damaging for a building to sit in static water than for it to have a torrent flowing next..
but really, I think, you need sandbags and a pump if you want to keep the water out.
Robert
In message , Andrew May writes
Did he mention that the councils agree to them because if they don't the developers will take it to appeal ?
Adrian
In message , Martin Brown writes
Last time I was house hunting, not knowing the area, one of the things I looked at was the likelihood of flooding (that was a few years back when it wasn't quite the hot topic is now). Why don't the "incomers" of today do that ?
Adrian
AIUI, that is part of the design.
Colin Bignell
That appears to be an hotel on a boat, which is not quite the same thing as a house that is designed to float only when flood water is present.
Colin Bignell
Why have you nymshifted?
Exactly my thinking.
Well, I just bought a house 400ft up. In Cambridgeshire that's a lot.
And my son's place will be in an island town if this goes on - but dry.
Andy
Look to the West. See that fat beardy bloke jumping up and down and waving on a "hilltop" in Bedfordshire? That's me, that is. 224 feet above the Ouse.
/ > Well, I just bought a house 400ft up. In Cambridgeshire that's a lot.
Look to the West. See that fat beardy bloke jumping up and down and waving on a "hilltop" in Bedfordshire? That's me, that is. 224 feet above the Ouse./q Er the Ouse is now to the west of Cambridgeshire?! Woah these floods are getting serious....
Jim K
Even if the sewers don't work, they won't overflow into the houses.
hell I'm 300 ft+. 40 miles east of you
Ouse valley system starts west and south of cambs.
I'm sitting JUST to the south of its watershed.
You can still get flooded on a hill.
I'm part way up a hill just on the 300ft contour, and yet ...
There is a house just around the corner from me which was built in 15xx, (so hardly in keeping with the current fad for building on flood plains) and that is known to flood. It has a stream running through the garden (which is generally OK), but where it leaves the garden it enters a culvert that runs for a mile or so. For many years TPTB didn't bother to keep the culvert clear, even though it was obvious with every heavy downpour that there was a problem. Eventually we had a prolonged deluge, and properties flooded.
Adrian
I'm beginning to visualise adding a pointy hat and fishing rod over the river to that description. A Gnome to rival the Angel of the North.
G.Harman
Ghod, no. I hate fishing.
Ah, the mountains of Cambridgeshire. Which village?
In article , Tim Streater scribeth thus
Well just in the Cambs border is Great Chishill around 146 MAOD..
Or over to the east I'd say Weston Colville .. or Castle Camps, all around 126 MAOD..
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