{"id":740739,"date":"2026-08-17T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740739\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:10:15","slug":"london-flood-insurance-rests-on-a-barrier-that-may-fail-sooner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740739\/","title":{"rendered":"London flood insurance rests on a barrier that may fail sooner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The officials told the FT the cost of a replacement could reach at least \u00a320 billion &#8211; more than double previous public estimates of between \u00a36 billion and \u00a39 billion. The EA&#8217;s own published TE2100 funding guidance already puts the total cost of Thames estuary flood defence work through to 2100 at \u00a316.2 billion, an estimate that has risen 50% since the plan was first published in 2012. A decision on a replacement may need to be made imminently, given that construction could take up to 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The officials told the FT the cost of a replacement could reach at least \u00a320 billion &#8211; more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[245073,245075,59,57,58,50,245074,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-flood-insurance-uk","tag-flood-re-uk-residential","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-thames-barrier-flood-risk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}