Insurers demand action on floods

Check out this link to the BBC website here

which includes the following statements:

However, Environment Minister Phil Woolas said it was unfair to suggest that nothing had changed."A huge amount of work has been going on since the floods of last year, by the Environment Agency and local authorities, to put in place flood defence programmes," he said.

He said that both the agency and councils were now using their powers to restrict building on flood plains.Also, the government announced last month that it would bring forward a Flood Bill to give the Environment Agency and councils more powers to prevent flooding.

But the ABI warned that what were once freak incidents are now becoming commonplace. It said not enough was known about the real threat of flooding, whether it be from rivers, drains, or the sea. And it pointed out that two-thirds of last year's flooding came from surface water or sewage flooding.

Restricting building on flood plains? New one on me.