UK floods: raise roads and redesign houses, engineers say

Redesigned houses, energy-generating coastal defences and raised roads preferable to dredging or tree-planting, reports the Guardian.

Houses should be redesigned, roads raised and tidal lagoons built that generate energy to reduce the impact of flooding in the UK, according to a panel of senior engineers and academics." In some senses we're still in a mode of 'discovery by disaster'," said Prof Jim Hall, professor of climate and environmental risks and director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University.