On Tue, 20 May 2014 13:08:12 +0100, sacha wrote:

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He could have looked at the EA map and said the EA say the probability of
flooding is X%.

I don't know if he did, obviously but the fact is that the house had
never flooded and the reason it did was lack of maintenance by the
authorities, not lack of diligence by the surveyor or the buyer.

Given that even by February the rain in the southwest had beaten all records
for more than a hundred years - it may not actually be anything to do with lack
of maintenance - but the fact that the houses were built in an unsuitable
location.