Jack ) wrote:

No one seems to have mentioned the obvious idea of constructing
buildings on "stilts".

A quick Google search brought these examples:

http://digitalgladrags.com/photofocu...boat-house.jpg

http://www.hbp.usm.my/conservation/M...s/malaysun.jpg


http://www.forgotten-ny.com/YOU'D%20NEVER%20BELIEVE/Broad%20Channel/ROCKWYHS.JPG

http://www.ndmindia.nic.in/EQProject...wnersguide.pdf

Notice that most of these pictures are from the so called "third
world". Why is it rocket science in Britain?


A listener to Five-live Breakfast - or was it Wake-up-to-money? - sent this
suggestion in to the program but the presenter who read it out thought it
was a joke.

However, another listener had pointed out that ground floors of new houses
had been made lower than before so as to make it easier to comply with
disabled-access legislation. Imagine the ramps you'd need for a house on
stilts!

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Graham P Davis
Bracknell, Berks., UK
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