{"id":12096,"date":"2016-05-07T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/building-on-a-flood-plain-how-to-go-with-the-flow\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T09:13:53","slug":"building-on-a-flood-plain-how-to-go-with-the-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/building-on-a-flood-plain-how-to-go-with-the-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Building on a flood plain: how to go with the flow"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRather than hold back the river, this Oxfordshire home allows water to flow under the house and drain back out againJoanna and Martin O\u2019Callaghan, 58-year-old chartered surveyors, married for 30 years and parents of two, are showing strong signs of being middle-aged hipsters. The living room wall of their newly built larch-clad house in the south Oxfordshire village of Sutton Courtenay is lined with original 1980s singles by Prince, the Jam, the Smiths, the Specials and Grace Jones. A woodburner roars away in the centre of a vogueishly \u201czoned\u201d rather than fully open-plan living space. Taking pride of place in the garden are neat stacks of copper beech logs \u2013 the result of a new wood-chopping hobby.The biggest problem was that it was a zone-three flood plain \u2013 but that is also what makes the site so alluring Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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