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An exaltation of skylarks greets me as I pedal along the Oxfordshire lanes around Weston-on-the-Green. This village, with its thatched cottages, ancient manor house hotel and 18th-century church, all surrounded by a beautiful agricultural floodplain, is just seven miles north of Oxford. It's a green and pleasant stretch of rural England that any self-respecting environmentalist might fall for.
But if the government has its way and Weston Otmoor, as it has designated the area, becomes the site of one of 10 "ecotowns",

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She added that he is likely to say councils, housing associations and insurers should make sure that these houses are "properly flood-proofed" before people return to them.

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As I understand it, the whole point of a floodplain is that it WILL flood when the river gets too high, thus relieving the pressure and protecting infrastructure further downstream so:
1. Haven't we learnt enough to realise that building on a floodplain is insane and:
2. How the hell can you "properly flood-proof" houses that have been built on the flood plain?

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