No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

So very sad.

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Bleating Lamb wrote: »

One ‘smart alec’ fella bought a farm of land near here around 30 years ago,was good road frontage on it......purchaser was from a farming background so knew when land would look well etc....part of farm ran beside a river,he advertised a site beside the river in June....a ‘townie’ person bought it a month later....built house on it and has being plagued ever since as the river floods its banks a few times each Winter.
Eventually the house owner had to bring in tonnes of soil and basically build a wall to defend the house and at times water has being within inches of going into the house.
The ‘smart alec’ landowner sold around 6 more sites over the years after that in safe places to build.
Myself and majority of neighbours always thought it was an awful act to sell a ‘site’ like that to someone who would not be used to flooding or farms.

Saw that happen twice in our locality, different sellers. Fortunately, the purchasers were slow in filing their planning applications, slow enough for the flood waters to rise and they to back pedal out of the agreement.

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

One ‘smart alec’ fella bought a farm of land near here around 30 years ago,was good road frontage on it......purchaser was from a farming background so knew when land would look well etc....part of farm ran beside a river,he advertised a site beside the river in June....a ‘townie’ person bought it a month later....built house on it and has being plagued ever since as the river floods its banks a few times each Winter.
Eventually the house owner had to bring in tonnes of soil and basically build a wall to defend the house and at times water has being within inches of going into the house.
The ‘smart alec’ landowner sold around 6 more sites over the years after that in safe places to build.
Myself and majority of neighbours always thought it was an awful act to sell a ‘site’ like that to someone who would not be used to flooding or farms.

I starting working in a place once and a guy there had just put down a deposit on a site not far from our place. I could hear him telling the other guys in the office about how dry it was, cattle still out in it in the middle of Dec etc.

Eventually he came and told me about it and I asked where was it exactly. It was lowing lying corcas land between two hills. The whole road was built on and this was the only site left. I told him we had land nearby and no way in hell, I would build on it. I told him how high the water table was there and he would have trouble with septic tanks etc. I told him to go talk to someone already living there and see for himself.
As it happened, he knew someone living there and they told him how the picture frames moved on the wall, when a lorry drove down the road and the septic tank was constant trouble.
He went straight to the auctioneer and he gave back the deposit, no bother. There's another house on it now.
if the banks of the shannon burst, the whole place would be under water. There's about 15 houses in the area.

schadenfreude

Nekarsulm wrote: »

A guy near us in Cavan here bought a site and applied for planning.
On low lying ground near a bend in a river.
Cavan County Council refused planning twice, on account of water table, etc.
Somehow, he got planning on the 3rd attempt ( speculation remains on how he managed it).
Started building, and was up to the wall plate when there was a months wet weather.
Flood came up, and rose to just touch the bottom edge of thewindow cills.
When it went down, instead of saying "OK, this is my new sub-floor level" he finished the house and moved in.
Been flooded out at least twice since...

Doesn't surprise me really given the record of CC's in this area over the years - just the other day a relative was telling me about a site on the edge of Naas that got rezoned a couple of years ago despite having several streams and springs that regularly flood on one side of it. Currently planning for 200 houses and a SC on it. Its highly likely that development on the site will also significantly increase flooding downstream into the town itself according to a hydrologists that worried locals have employed to look at the issue. Until senior planners, country managers, ABP etc are held personally liable for such reckless behaviour we will continue to have such issues in this country - not to mention the vast amount of tax payers money that has to be shelled out to fix such messes when the inevitable happens in terms of flood damage, fixes etc.

Christmas Radio has just checked into my Sky Box - the fact that I'm a big Slade fan helps gets me threw these coming weeks in Shops and that:pac:

NcdJd wrote: »

Groundhog day would be a good one for this year !

Oh how I'd love if they put in on a few days in a row

Ah the joy killers. We would never had the film, Groundhog Day.

Say my name wrote: »

It'd be like Atlantic 252 in the mornings.

Remember spending a Summer on a Silage Making team back in the early nineties,was on the buckrake….would have Atlantic 252 blasting out on the radio and oul lads on the pit giving out to ya that that 'feckin music' was too loud......legend of a station.

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Remember spending a Summer on a Silage Making team back in the early nineties,was on the buckrake….would have Atlantic 252 blasting out on the radio and oul lads on the pit giving out to ya that that 'feckin music' was too loud......legend of a station.

I remember going to secondary school in a minibus and Atlantic 252 on the radio in the mornings.
There was one stage for a fortnight the same song was played at the same time every morning.
You'd know if you were early or late by how far you were on the road when the song came on.
I forget what it was now. Something from Oasis I think.