Banker wants money back on property which regularly floods
January 27, 2010
A city analyst has gone to the High Court in order to get his money back on a house he bought on the banks of the River Thames. Dr. Adrian Howd claims that when he paid £1.9 million for the river side property he was unaware that it regularly flooded. The house is called Tides End and has a back garden which gently slopes down to the river. Shortly after moving in Dr. Howd received a phone call from his wife Caroline who was shocked and surprised by the fact that the Thames, instead of being at the bottom of the 140 foot garden, was now outside the back door.
The Howds bought the property from Mr. and Mrs. Console-Verma whose sons attended the same school as their daughters. The Howds claim that they asked whether or not the property ever suffered from flooding because it was so close to the river, the answer to which was apparently a negative. Mr. Console-Verma maintains that he gave an honest answer because his understanding of property was the house itself. He continued that in his mind flooding was associated with homelessness and destruction and that during the time his family had inhabited the property these things had never happened.
Mr. Howd said that he and his wife had thought about trying to sell the house but because the garden tends to flood an average of eighty times every year they would get much less than they originally paid for it. Apparently whenever the Thames rises over 15 feet the garden floods.
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