We built a modern Noah’s Ark on £100,000 stilts
A couple has constructed their dream retirement home in a flood zone by the River Thames.
Tom and Maggie Walsh are living on the edge in their retirement. The couple has just built their dream home in a flood zone on the banks of the Thames in Oxfordshire. According to UK climate change projections, average winter rainfall in England could increase by 41 percent by the year 2050, and peak river flows could increase by 50 percent. There has been significant flooding in the Thames Valley in 2000, 2003, 2007, 2012, 2013-14, and 2019-20. Yet the Walshes are not losing any sleep. That’s because they are living in a floodproof house. “It is quite a high-risk area but we are covered for events for 200 years, says Ben Holland, partner at HollandGreen Architecture, Interiors & Landscapes. As it gets.
A couple has constructed their dream retirement home in a flood zone by the River Thames.
Tom and Maggie Walsh are living on the edge in their retirement. The couple has just built their dream home in a flood zone on the banks of the Thames in Oxfordshire. According to UK climate change projections, average winter rainfall in England could increase by 41 percent by the year 2050, and peak river flows could increase by 50 percent. There has been significant flooding in the Thames Valley in 2000, 2003, 2007, 2012, 2013-14, and 2019-20. Yet the Walshes are not losing any sleep. That’s because they are living in a floodproof house. “It is quite a high-risk area but we are covered for events for 200 years, says Ben Holland, partner at HollandGreen Architecture, Interiors & Landscapes. As it gets.
We built a modern Noah’s Ark on £100,000 stilts
A couple has constructed their dream retirement home in a flood zone by the River Thames.
Tom and Maggie Walsh are living on the edge in their retirement. The couple has just built their dream home in a flood zone on the banks of the Thames in Oxfordshire. According to UK climate change projections, average winter rainfall in England could increase by 41 percent by the year 2050, and peak river flows could increase by 50 percent. There has been significant flooding in the Thames Valley in 2000, 2003, 2007, 2012, 2013-14, and 2019-20. Yet the Walshes are not losing any sleep. That’s because they are living in a floodproof house. “It is quite a high-risk area but we are covered for events for 200 years, says Ben Holland, partner at HollandGreen Architecture, Interiors & Landscapes. As it gets.
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