The London Climate Resilience Review (LCRR) has urged Keir Starmer's new Labour UK government to consider introducing 'stormwater charges' for people who have no natural run-offs in their gardens such as grass. It was ordered by Sadiq Khan following what his office branded 'increasing severity and frequency of climate impacts' in the capital, including flash floods in 2021 and the 2022 heatwave - and warns of a 'lethal risk' to Londoners posed by floods.
That 'lethal risk' has accounted for how many deaths in London? Would you believe, zero?
In 2008 the government changed the laws on resurfacing gardens - meaning anything larger than five square metres was only permitted when the surface was rendered permeable. But the Greater London Authority says these rules are poorly enforced because of a lack of defined standards on the absorbency of the materials to be used.
Another piece of utterly useless legislation then?
And the reasons people are thought to be paving over their gardens so they can park their cars off the street are twofold: to avoid parking permit charges from their local council, and to be able to charge the rising number of electric cars on the roads.
Ha ha ha ha! Can't anyone see beyond getting legislation passed and not accounting for people's responses to it?
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