Changing tack...
The Environment Agency is recommending that developers use hard, river edge flood defences and leave green land that is able to absorb flood water. They also say that the buildings behind these defences should be designed to cope with occasional flooding.
In the UK, most home flood defence systems rely on barriers to block water as it rises. They may be more effective than sandbags, but they take the same approach. In the Netherlands however, architects have changed tack...
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