In the absence of the barrier, which is downstream from Greenwich and close to City Airport, the flood defence walls that line the Thames through central London would have to have been built up by ...

Flood defence walls through London will need to be half a metre higher in the future to protect against climate change, officials said as they marked the 40th anniversary of the Thames Barrier.

The report also said confusion over who runs London's flood defence system was putting the city in danger. But the Environment Agency said the flood defences are in good order. Much of the development ...

It will also investigate whether any further defences are necessary ... but lies less than 10 metres above sea level. Central London last suffered severe flooding in 1928, when 14 people were killed.

London's flood defences must be strengthened significantly to combat the impact of climate change, the Government's chief scientific adviser has warned. Professor Sir David King, who warned a ...

Spanning 1,700 feet (520 metres), the Thames Barrier is one of the largest retractable flood defence barriers in the world. It protects 125 square kilometres of central London from floods ...

The government statement said the change was based on improved climate change models which showed the "heightened risk of flooding ... defences in the section of the river running past London ...

And while only 13 per cent of all agricultural land (2,891,133 acres, a space over seven-times the size of Greater London ...