London’s Crumbling Foundations: Heatwaves Fuel Subsidence Crisis

As record-breaking temperatures become a seasonal regularity rather than an anomaly, London is grappling with an invisible structural disaster: a sharp rise in home subsidence. Driven by the unique geology of the London Basin, successive heatwaves have caused the capital’s underlying clay soil to dehydrate, shrink, and shift, leading to widespread structural damage in residential…

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