Floods in kent

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  27 December 2013     17:58256325
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  just when these poor people thought things could not get worse, dave turns up!!
  
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529433/More-Christmas-misery-ANOTHER-storm-set-batter-Britain-tonight-thousands-remain-without-power.html?ico=home^headlines
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
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  28 December 2013     12:06256370
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  Just watched this and one lady said the flood barrier was opened, surely that means the barrier is either in the wrong place or not worth having. Another point why not inform those unfortunately going to be affected BEFORE opening the flood barrier rather than afterwards as it would give them more time to move items.
  
  http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2013-12-26/boxing-day-blues-in-tonbridge/
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• Guest 698

  • Registered: 28 May 2010
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  28 December 2013     22:50256392
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  Yalding is a lovely village and we nearly bought a house there in 1977. But the flooding history put us off and we moved to Crowborough instead. Yalding is and always was a flood zone, whatever made people settle there I cannot imagine.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  29 December 2013     10:04256397
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  surely when buying a property in a flood risk area the buyer's solicitor would advise of the risk?
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  29 December 2013     10:09256402
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  I see that the power companys are charging for info,not cheap either.
  
  http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/city-news/uk-weather-power-companies-charge-2968527
• Guest 698

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  30 December 2013     10:00256463
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  4, Howard, absent wilful misreprentation, the doctrine of caveat emptor applies to property deals. When you buy, your solicitor will find out, as part of the search process, whether the property lies in a flood risk area (as defined by the Environment Agency). It's also worth sounding out insurance companies, as they rate every postcode for various classes of risk and are more conservative than the EA. Solicitors are not engineers so their advice is restricted to the legal.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 977

  • Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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  30 December 2013     10:46256468
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  All going to change soon thanks to the Water Bill.
  
  As I understand it on a quick read and from what I've picked up from the press (check the details yourself!), the plan if agreed is that all households will pay a premium called Flood Re on their insurance which will go towards a rebate based on Council Tax bands for those in high risk areas - but it won't apply to houses built after 2009 as the risks for particular areas should have been known by then.