Hello Crossoak Conservation!
February 11th, 2005Feel free to have a look around and make some comments.
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February 11th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
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February 11th, 2005 at 11:49 pm
Potential incomers will likely do Google searches for terms like “Horley flood risks”. Try it and you get some reassuring hits from which the following quotes are copied (itemd numbered 5 & 6 are from Reigate Banstead Council). You need to make sure that this web site and any other sites portraying the real flood risks will also be revealed during searches. Therefore keywords are vital and must include “flood”, “flooding” and “risk”; ideally these would be part of the header.
5. What about the evidence from the 1968 floods?
Extensive information about the extent of the 1968 flood event was considered by the Inspector at the Local Plan Inquiry in 2001. This and some new information submitted by local residents has been examined again since then by the Environment Agency who have advised the Council that it can continue to have confidence in the new Flood Study (2004).
6. How can the Council be confident that the 1968 floods won’t happen again?
The EA’s flood modelling has provided the most comprehensive possible estimate of future flood risk in accordance with the Inspector’s requirements.
The Council has subjected this to independent expert scrutiny. In addition the detailed consideration of the proposals at planning application stage will ensure that any residual risk is minimised.
For example, the current proposals for the NE Sector show that the minimum floor levels of the new homes would be above the 1968 flood event, 0.5 metres above the climate change flood line and 0.75 metres above the 1:100 flood line.
A site at Horley in Surrey is a major development
included as an alteration in the local plan.
Supplementary planning guidance is being
provided on surface water drainage using source
control techniques both within dwelling curtilages
and for the site as a whole. This includes use of
rainwater butts, grass swales, porous paths and
driveways, wet and dry ponds and storm water
wetlands. Guidelines on maintenance
arrangements are also considered
February 12th, 2005 at 10:49 am
Quote From Derek Washington:
Derek, these keywords will be targeted in the fullness of time. Each time someone make a new main article as long as the keywords are in the title of that we should attain these searches in a natural progression. The fact that you have mentioned some in your post goes a long way attaining them anyway if you search for Horley Flood Risks http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-24%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=Horley+flood+risks&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB
You see that even the site at the top doesn’t actually state the phrase - merely states the words in random. This already makes this site a more valid result as we state the whole phrase without breaks. I hope I’m still making sense!
Derek, I would like to invite you to have full posting privileges on this site so that you can post your own articles. Please let me know if you would be interested in posting as little or as much as you like and I will set you up with a password and username.
Thanks for your comments. Please keep them coming.
February 14th, 2005 at 1:08 pm
“For example, the current proposals for the NE Sector show that the minimum floor levels of the new homes would be above the 1968 flood event, 0.5 metres above the climate change flood line and 0.75 metres above the 1:100 flood line.”
That’s as may be for the new homes, but what about everyone else affected by run-off due to reduced soak-away areas? And if developers say they have planned drainage accordingly - water still has to go somewhere. And what if there was heavy rain at the end of a rapid Autumn leaf drop after a good summer with resulting larger leaves before drains / raods are swept and de-clogged? Planners must plan for worst-case scenarios when lives are at stake.