Flood of unfairness

1:03pm Wednesday 25th April 2012 in Letters

Sir – How can the following be fair: After the floods of 2007, we purchased Floodguard flood doors to help protect our home, should another event occur. The cost was about £5,000. Our insurance claim following the flood was around £130,000.

Six other houses in our lane were similarly affected, but I believe we were the only house to take steps to protect ourselves for the future.

In the autumn of 2011, West Oxfordshire District Council obtained approximately £25,000 from the Environment Agency to install property-based protection for our lane.

This work was completed in November 2011 in the form of Floodguard flood doors, with the result that the other six homes are now protected with the same measures as ours, but at no cost to the homeowners.

We enquired whether reimbursement was possible for the very same doors we had fitted previously at our own expense. The answer was, sadly, ‘no’. We hear a lot from Downing Street about fairness, which does not not seem available in West Oxfordshire.

Jill Fox, Milton-under-Wychwood

Comments(1)

morgeo says...
3:23am Sat 5 May 12

This fairness that you say is not available where you live is also not available elsewhere Jill. David Cameron and Steve Webb both say that they want fairness for pensioners but they are just meaningless words. My pension has not increased for 15 yrs and my wife's pension is the same and this is just because of where we live. How corrupt can a government get when they steal from a pensioner which is what they are doing. We both paid into the NI fund and now are frozen and this is the fairness that David Cameron is talking about and doing nothing about. The government decide where you can can live with a full pension and if you choose to live elsewhere then you are penalised and get no increases ever. This in their idea of fairness and they make me sick with their two-faced comments. They are despicable liars and will surely be in the dole queue at the next election.
Did I mention that we are just part of a minority 4% of all pensioners that are treated this way ? That's political fairness for you !

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