There is a housing development about 10 miles from me. They were pumping water out of the site 24 hours /day last October as they were building the houses. I went past the other day and noticed one of the streets is equipped with life ring buoyancy aids every 50 metres. What fuckwit passed that planning application and which bigger fuckwits bought the houses?
The Thames Estuary has had many hundreds of new homes built along it, mainly on the low lying Essex coast, and a million homes altogether are being spoken of by 2050.
All of them are or are intended to be beyond the Thames Flood Barrier protection.
Here's the promoters, note the construction industry people among them:
Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission:
Sir John Armitt (Chair), Chairman, City & Guilds Group and National Express
Prof. Sadie Morgan (Deputy Chair), Director, dRMM Architects
Lord Norman Foster, Chairman and Founder, Foster + Partners
Prof. Alice Gast, President, Imperial College
Gregory Hodkinson, Chairman, Arup
Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman and Chief Executive, Canary Wharf Group
Sir Stuart Lipton, Partner, Lipton Rogers Developments LLP
Sir Edward Lister, Chairman, Homes England
Tony Pidgley, Group Chairman, Berkeley Group
Nick Roberts, President, Atkins
Geoffrey Spence, Infrastructure Finance Expert
One Lord, four Knights and Two Professors.
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