Twenty-eight ‘vital’ Scottish flood defence schemes are now expected to cost nearly one billion pounds – three times more than was first estimated in 2016.
Analysis by The Ferret has found that the schemes will cost a combined £985m while providing just under 13,000 properties with protection from flooding.
This means that, across Scotland, the average cost of defending just one property under the schemes will be in excess of £76,000.
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