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[A fool and his money.....]

1 hour ago, Roger Ram said:

I wasnt quoting it as model for society.

I was making the point that it’s really not hard with modern building methods and design to hold a bit of water back 

Classic case of a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

It's only been a few years since Dandara mastered building houses that the roof doesn't blow off, I think I'd be very wary of buying anything they'd built on a flood plain. I suspect the properties with a foot of water in them in a couple of years may receive the same level of aftersales service as the houses with no roof.

[Amadeus]

I still have pics somewhere of the digger and other equipment under water when they built quay west and it flooded. 

[mollag]

This is how it was in previous times, Big tides , coinciding with melt/rainwater flow on the river could back it up to Pulrose. Things have been raised over the years, river flow contolled to a degree with the reservoirs but flooding up to Hills meadow was common in my time. Note the legend to the left, height of spring tides.

[mollag]

Pulrose Bridge area, seasonal flood.

[lfc84]

People bothered about flooding but won't agree to any plans for Douglas prom

[Dirty Buggane]

Its not so much the flooding as the sewerage, it don't mean a wash and new carpets in car. It is a right off. Since they took the meadows over for building on Hills meadow and for the life of me cannot remember the name of the other where the Milestone, McDonalds Firestation, KFC are, but I do remember it being 30ft lower than the road and a permanent swamp way back before lasagne was commonplace.  They have just been storing up problems as well of lack of management of rivers narrowing them over time as it suited them, now bleating about global warming and weather problems instead of listening to old Jeb who could of told them start messing with water courses better start building a boat.  😁

Edited June 25 by Dirty Buggane

[Happier diner]

38 minutes ago, Dirty Buggane said:

Its not so much the flooding as the sewerage, it don't mean a wash and new carpets in car. It is a right off. Since they took the meadows over for building on Hills meadow and for the life of me cannot remember the name of the other where the Milestone, McDonalds Firestation, KFC are, but I do remember it being 30ft lower than the road and a permanent swamp way back before lasagne was commonplace.  They have just been storing up problems as well of lack of management of rivers narrowing them over time as it suited them, now bleating about global warming and weather problems instead of listening to old Jeb who could of told them start messing with water courses better start building a boat.  😁

Sewerage? Since when?

[Happier diner]

11 hours ago, A fool and his money..... said:

Classic case of a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

It's only been a few years since Dandara mastered building houses that the roof doesn't blow off, I think I'd be very wary of buying anything they'd built on a flood plain. I suspect the properties with a foot of water in them in a couple of years may receive the same level of aftersales service as the houses with no roof.

You will be fine with the penthouse suite. 

[Roger Ram]

8 hours ago, Amadeus said:

I still have pics somewhere of the digger and other equipment under water when they built quay west and it flooded. 

And yet I am not aware of any real issues since it was completed, because the place was built with the flood risk taken into account.

The same will apply to this new development.  It’s not hard to build a building on land that has historically flooded and build it in such a way that it won’t flood.  There are hundreds of thousands of buildings all over the world built in areas that have flooded historically or even on reclaimed land that don’t flood.

Its not an issue

[Katman]

That will be more drivers looking for somewhere else to park.

[Gladys]

17 minutes ago, Roger Ram said:

or even on reclaimed land that don’t flood.

 

Like a large part of the prom.  There are occasional floods but not devastatingly so. 

[Roger Ram]

14 minutes ago, Gladys said:

Like a large part of the prom.  There are occasional floods but not devastatingly so. 

Most of Ramsey, Castletown, Peel, Laxey, Douglas, Ballasalla and Sulby if they were undeveloped and people proposed building there now we would be having the same pointless moaning.

[english zloty]

3 hours ago, Roger Ram said:

And yet I am not aware of any real issues since it was completed, because the place was built with the flood risk taken into account.

The same will apply to this new development.  It’s not hard to build a building on land that has historically flooded and build it in such a way that it won’t flood.  There are hundreds of thousands of buildings all over the world built in areas that have flooded historically or even on reclaimed land that don’t flood.

Its not an issue

Yes it is. That's why the flood specialists propose owners live with it. And where they get warning, move their vehicles elsewhere.

[The Phantom]

4 hours ago, Roger Ram said:

And yet I am not aware of any real issues since it was completed, because the place was built with the flood risk taken into account.

The same will apply to this new development.  It’s not hard to build a building on land that has historically flooded and build it in such a way that it won’t flood.  There are hundreds of thousands of buildings all over the world built in areas that have flooded historically or even on reclaimed land that don’t flood.

Its not an issue

None of the current flats there are low level. The 'ground' floor is the same level as the top of the bridge and has commercial units and car parking at the back. You'd assume they would build the new ones at a similar height. 

[mollag]

5 hours ago, Dirty Buggane said:

Its not so much the flooding as the sewerage, it don't mean a wash and new carpets in car. It is a right off. Since they took the meadows over for building on Hills meadow and for the life of me cannot remember the name of the other where the Milestone, McDonalds Firestation, KFC are, but I do remember it being 30ft lower than the road and a permanent swamp way back before lasagne was commonplace.  They have just been storing up problems as well of lack of management of rivers narrowing them over time as it suited them, now bleating about global warming and weather problems instead of listening to old Jeb who could of told them start messing with water courses better start building a boat.  😁

The area from Pulrose Bridge to the QB was in filled over a long time to raise it's level, imho, it's what is needed for the area from Bridge road to Pulrose bridge.