UK flood planners 'must prepare for worst'

Ms Howard Boyd, launching the consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, said government policy should ensure that all publicly-funded infrastructure is resilient to flooding and coastal change by 2050.

However, she warned that in some places"the scale of the threat may be so significant that recovery will not always be the best long term solution" and communities would need help to"move out of harm's way".It calculates that for every person who suffers flooding, about 16 more are affected by loss of services such as power, transport and telecommunications.

These are insurance-related losses related to outcomes of climate change such as more extreme weather. "That’s why we are already providing £2.6bn over six years, delivering more than 1,500 projects to better protect 300,000 homes.”

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Extra bn will help with GDP & 'productivity'. Carno can just print a bit more on the sly. Get to it, PDQ, bankofengland

Load of crap

BBCPolitics We're all dooooommmed!😂

5 mm per year and increasing , may not sound like much

The sea is rising 5 mm a year , that's been proved scientifically

BBCPolitics talkRADIO Iromg climatechange ExtinctionRebellionlondon night _ We've built houses on or near flood planes for decades. Cliffs have been eaten away for thousands of years. Britain's population has grown and grown, taking up even more land. Poor planning is the problem

Climate change is false and very lucrative to the people involved.

So.. Before they were not prepared?!?

I hope your island sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

BBCPolitics It’s NOT climate change it’s WEATHER! Plan and build for the worst, it stands to reason for goodness sake. Fed up with these extremist alarmist narrative. Flooding has been here since the Arc!

And as expected the vile BBC now drags a phony 'Green' Party wonk onto its fake news channel to link this hyperbolic tosh to a 'vital' need to stay in the lovely EU. On-cue BBC clown looks grave and nods sagely in total accord. Shit BBC bias -obvious as a wig with a chinstrap

Fake global warming rubbish. Snore

BBC refuses to reduce carbon footprint ban paper cups include CO figures for programmes, keeping bussing autocue readers around the country

More stupidly uncritical BBC plugging of the most extremist and alarmist AGW narratives. IE; those that assist our bien pensant globalist elites' dishonest political agendas. Only the accompanying, equally dishonest non-'solutions' plugged by the vile BBC are more ill-informed.

PhelpsieSarah And still we are rolling out the red carpet for an American administration that considers raising sea levels & melting ice caps as “exciting trade opportunities” and for what? The hope of a trade deal including cheap chlorinated chicken.

Only a fool would plan only for the best possible outcomes but implementing plans in this time of austerity may prove impossible. So we may end up with great plans on paper and nothing on the ground and a huge bill for consultants.

peggymel2001 What does the UK know that the LiberalAus doesn't. AustraliaVotes

What more BBC ?!😂

Just a thought, but a better idea might be to stop building houses on flood plains.

Sometimes it's worth looking back at history and questioning whether the area you're about to buy or build a house in has ever flooded. If yes and even if it was 150 years ago, just ask yourself why wouldn't it happen again.

We've never had floods before. Must be climate change.

They ask for more 'money'. Climate warriors want you to use muilt use plastic which costs 'money' Go green which cost you 'money' Etc... Can you see the pattern. Someone's profittering from climate change.

Thank God! for prevetative/reduction measures!

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