The obsession with going everywhere by car is one of the reasons there are so many fat bastards about. Lazy ****ers.
What's wrong with what i said? I'm just thinking of the country flooding, which it seems to do with alarming regularity these days, whereas others are more bothered about having to walk 90 seconds to their house. OT but what's the fascination with parking outside of your house? It drives me ****ing insane when people go mental if somebody else dare to park outside of their house , as if its their divine right to park there. IT'S NOT YOUR ****ING LAND.
What's 'utter ****e' about that? I dont claim to have studied the cause and effects of regular floods within the UK, I'm just referencing the experts. They can put as many drives on it as much as they want but dont then moan about ****ing floods every year.
Nurse, you can stand down - you do need planning permission and does have something to do with other people. Seems it wasnt such a crazy idea after all eh? And if you care to read on the Environment Agency goes into great detail about how parking arrangements can lead to flooding. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...achment_data/file/7728/pavingfrontgardens.pdf
Like I said earlier the problem is the neglect of, & failure to update, drains & sewer systems to accomodate the hundreds of thousands of new builds. Yoy sound like a tit having a tantrum over something irrelevant. I chose to do my garden alongside the drive in order to park our cars off road. It makes the insurance cheaper because the cars are safer. Parking all three on the road would cause obstructions & put up my insurance premiums. Parking them up the road would defeat the object of jumping in the car rather than on the bus, especially on days like today. It's not lazy to not want to get unnecessarily soaked to the skin it's the sensible option. It also has **** all to do with outdated & neglected drains.
Look after yourself, save a few quid a year, God forbid a bit of rain on your head and **** the rest of the country flooding eh? That's the spirit.
"Serious flooding in 2007 affected the UK. This resulted in loss of life, disruption of peoples’ lives and caused damage estimated at about £3bn. In many cases the flooding happened because drains could not cope with the amount of rain water flowing to them." So it's drains not drives that cause the problem? And where does it say you shouldn't have a drive way?
Sad ****, do you drive? Do you have a drive? What do you do? Have you petitioned against or objected to new builds & developements because the infrastructure of the drains & sewers are not up to supporting the additional excess water & waste? Have you objected to new builds having permeable driveways? Or do you just walk everywhere from your flat for one with no permeable allocated parking space getting bitter, twisted, cold & wet because others have drives, cars, comfort & warmth?
Not especially. It's the additional water that gets diverted to the drains, from land that previously acted as soak aways that contribute to the problem. It's not so much extra houses adding to it, but the structure of the building stopping nature take its course, and needing to be diverted into the existing system.
That report says if you put in a gravel drive, or use permeable blocks, then there's no issue. You can rant about any old ****e.
So technically everyone in the country could have a driveway and it not be a problem at all re flooding - assuming they were of the right stuff.
Yeah i know it does, that's why when i first raised the point I specifically referenced 'tarmacking / paving'. What's your point? How is the causes of flooding 'any old ****e'?
Because your rant about 'lazy ****' car drivers was completely inaccurate and unnecessary, have a rant about people who like tarmac or concrete instead.
Yeah and I live in a 1930s house with a double driveway. It's not contributing to the flooding that we see every year, it was planned for. And no I havent done any of that, as I said multiple times now - I'm just referencing what the experts have said causes flooding.
And how does it surmise where the causes of the extra water entering the drains? That's a convenient point you've overlooked isnt it? And in the part where it talks about having non permeable areas replacing gardens and the affects it can have. That part.
