Paved gardens increase flood risk says London Assembly

Sept. 6, 2005
The London Assembly has said that roughly two thirds of the city’s 1.9 million front gardens have been paved over and warned that this could cause severe flooding. The assembly’s environment committee said the loss of gardens has put huge pressure on drains as well as increasing local temperatures, creating a dirtier environment, encouraged more car noise and pollution and …

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