UK floods: Raise roads and redesign houses, engineers say

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Redesigned houses, energy-generating coastal defences and raised roads preferable to dredging or tree-planting

Houses should be redesigned, roads raised and tidal lagoons built that generate energy to reduce the impact of flooding in the UK, according to a panel of senior engineers and academics. Recent flooding...

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