Flooding in the UK and building for a wetter future

By David Blackman2020-03-06T06:00:00

Source: Alamy

Following more storms and ensuing floods, the focus is turning from where to how we build in affected areas

The news that last month was the wettest February on record will not be a great surprise to the many communities across the UK that have been battered by floods over the last few weeks. And if the climate science is any guide, the grim reality is that last month’s record inundations are the shape of things to come.

Mary Dhonau has been campaigning on flood resilience issues with a mounting sense of urgency ever since she was washed out of her home in Worcester more than 20 years ago. She now runs her own flood resilience consultancy working to raise local flood awareness. She says: “This is yet another wake-up call about something that will become the new normal of increasingly wet winters and widescale flooding.”

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