When a developer floats the idea to build housing on a floodplain, it’s best to factor in how well the future residents may need to float too (“Hundreds of homes to be built on floodplain”, February 1). Nature and the landscape have ways to remain “buoyant” despite the travails of extremes in weather and climatic events. Not always so with the human the abode. In simple planning terminology, a plain is often an ideal location to overlay suburbs. A caveat to this easy-fix home installation, is that if the word plain is prefixed by flood, you will have not wanted to come down in the last shower to gauge the inherent rising risks of such a proposal. Steve Dillon, Thirroul
Floods inundated Lismore, NSW, again, in March 2025. Nick Moir As a long-time resident of the Hawkesbury area and having experienced numerous floods over the years, I find it incomprehensible that developers are still utilising floodplains to build on. This despite all the evidence available about climate change impacts on rain/flood/storm events and increasing urban runoff, by volume and velocity. It seems that there is a complete lack of will by our politicians to address the serious problems we face around housing and environmental risk. With that in mind, perhaps it’s t
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