I don't want or expect your sympathy.
My post yesterday was trying to highlight the pitiful way in which our country is run these days, with lawsuits being raised willy nilly, mainly due to the fact that large companies aren't prepared to defend their legal rights, as it is cheaper to pay for an issue to go away.
Perversely the actions of insurance companies not providing protection for these houses also highlights where this country is going.
However the flip side of that is that anyone who bought their house in a flood zone - I know when I've bought houses numerous searches are carried out, and houses that are in flood plains are specifically brought to the purchaser's attention - don't really deserve any sympathy [iMHO], as it was their choice to pay the price for the house, and their choice to take the risk whether or not a flood would actually happen. To go on the National News bleating that your house has been flooded and that you have no insurance quite frankly isn't an injustice, but [iMHO] is just plain stupidity.
With regards to the [alleged] council houses being built on a flood plain, then surely that is the responsibility of the council that built them, and once again bleating on the news about personal injustices just doesn't cut it with me. However if they wanted to take some action against the council for allegedly forcing them to live in that house, then they would get my support. If the council built the house and knew that insurance companies wouldn't insure it, then the council should cover the insurance costs [iMHO].
And yes, I am alright Jack. I looked at one house which was a real steal, until I realised it was built on a flood plain. That is when I decided not to buy it, and bought another house somewhere else. My house didn't get flooded.