Make Sure Your Driveway Drains Properly and Meets Planning Rules Putting in off-street parking makes life more convenient and add to the value of your home. But make sure you think about drainage from the outset. Towns and cities the length and breadth of the UK have street after street of homes that were built around the turn of the century. The fact that they are standing as firm now as they were 100 years Read More…
Be Clear About What Lies Beneath Before You Do Anything Else Failing to take drainage into proper account is one of the most common and costly mistakes when planning and constructing an extension. Home improvement has never been more popular, and across the towns and cities of the UK, it is impossible to go down a street without seeing any number of homes that have been extended and modified. In times of economic turbulence, when Read More…
More Work Needed Months After £1 Billion Renovation Water leaks at the redeveloped London Bridge Station mean the area is once again swarming with workmen, only weeks after the project was completed. At the end of May, the new-look London Bridge Station was formally opened by the Duke of Cambridge, following a five-year project that cost almost £1 billion. Less than four months later, commuters and staff at the station were having to shelter from Read More…
It’s Time to Batten Down the Hatches and Prepare for Winter We have enjoyed one of the best summers on record. But now it’s time to ask yourself whether your home is prepared for the months ahead. The kids are firmly back in the school routine, the evenings are getting shorter, and you are waking up in the morning and starting to ask yourself whether it will soon be time to switch the central heating Read More…
Despite One of the Driest Summers Ever, Flooding is Still a Problem The summer of 2018 will go down in history as one of the hottest – yet flood risk is ever present across the nation’s cities People have been harking back to the endless sun and the baked yellow grass of 1976, as temperatures have remained high and farmers have looked to the horizon in vain, searching for rain clouds to water the crops. Read More…
Floods brought about by storms and rising sea levels could become the norm, as climate change threatens the infrastructure in the UK’s capital
Experts agree that the impact of Birmingham’s recent floods was mitigated thanks to regular maintenance of the city’s drainage system.
Innovation from Down Under Could Ease UK Drainage Crisis As London’s drains find it ever harder to cope, a high-tech solution could be on the way from the other side of the world. Our capital is faced with a growing drainage infrastructure problem, with the network finding it increasingly difficult to meet escalating demand. It is easy to think of it as a peculiarly English problem. An historic city that is seeing exponential growth, and Read More…
Residents Across the Country Facing Floods and Sanitation Concerns April showers are nothing new, but the apparent inability of the UK’s drainage infrastructure to cope is causing grave concerns to households nationwide. Extreme weather conditions and flash floods are part of life and happen across the country from time to time, particularly when sudden downpours coincide with higher than usual spring tides. However, the sheer scale of floods that have been reported up and down Read More…
Fly Tipping Leads to Floods in West London Floods that caused chaos outside a school in Chertsey were caused by rubble dumped into public drains. It is a growing problem across London. A major road running through Chertsey in South West London was closed in both directions due to severe flooding in December. And while authorities initially assumed a burst water main was the culprit, it has now emerged that this is yet another example Read More…