Re: Floods are caused by the shooting industry
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:01 pm
Following the floods of 2007 planning law was changed so that a person requires planning permission to pave over, repave or otherwise create a hardstanding over 5sqm in area to the front of their property ........... [Mark]
That's fascinating! I'd never heard that. As you say, who knows about it and even more so, who complies with it?
I saw a lot of new hardstanding areas being installed last summer locally. Alongside ripping bathrooms and other bits of the interior out, the second job on an older house with new owners appears to be to get the car parking 'sorted'. Unless we go down a path of calling up a one-trip rental job on an Uber type app in the electric car future and thereby rid society of most parked personal vehicles, I can only see things get worse. Everybody will want their electric vehicles off the streets and alongside domestic charging points.
Incidentally and returning to the thread subject, York Central's Labour MP Ms Rachel Maskell is sounding off about sorting river catchments out in today's edition of the York Press. She writes quite correctly that yet more and yet higher downstream barriers aren't the answer. Perhaps predictably though, her first claim is that grouse moor burning is a cause of rapid runoff and must be stopped.
That's fascinating! I'd never heard that. As you say, who knows about it and even more so, who complies with it?
I saw a lot of new hardstanding areas being installed last summer locally. Alongside ripping bathrooms and other bits of the interior out, the second job on an older house with new owners appears to be to get the car parking 'sorted'. Unless we go down a path of calling up a one-trip rental job on an Uber type app in the electric car future and thereby rid society of most parked personal vehicles, I can only see things get worse. Everybody will want their electric vehicles off the streets and alongside domestic charging points.
Incidentally and returning to the thread subject, York Central's Labour MP Ms Rachel Maskell is sounding off about sorting river catchments out in today's edition of the York Press. She writes quite correctly that yet more and yet higher downstream barriers aren't the answer. Perhaps predictably though, her first claim is that grouse moor burning is a cause of rapid runoff and must be stopped.