Fairford flood alleviation works delayed by bad weather (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)
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Fairford flood alleviation works delayed by bad weather
1:00pm Wednesday 31st October 2012 in News By Liz Day
RESIDENTS of Fairford have been assured that funding is in place for a flood alleviation scheme, but work has been delayed due to poor weather.
At a public meeting chaired by Cotswold MP Geoffrey Clifton Brown last week, the Environment Agency confirmed funding to complete the work was secure, but that water levels were currently too high to allow the work to start.
The work has already been delayed due to landowner issues and legal arguments.
The EA said flood maps were continually updated and that homeowners in high flood risk areas would find it easier to purchase house insurance once the overall flood alleviation scheme had been completed.
Robert Jeanes says...
4:45pm Wed 31 Oct 12
His opportunist 'be-wellied' 'photo shoot' in 2007 alongside a lady Fairford councillor somehow avoided the East End of Fairford where the flooding sewage, caused for me and my neighbours one particularly unforgettable sight - millions of tiny bits of lavatory paper lapping up to, and into doors! Another memorable spinoff of the iconic Floods '07 is now amusingly real; one East End resident ultimately claimed insurance on renewal of ....yes.... 'soiled'.....slate chippings.... to house frontage.
So, it is opportune that an unanswered question again is posed.
Just how can any 'NewBuild', right alongside the Coln, in its flood plain, make any real sense to the ordinary folk of Fairford (and Lechlade)? The diggers by the way are (technically) poised ready to start Fairford's very own 'Gated Village' - 144 luxury 'second homes'. (Lechlade already has its own which, with inevitable publicity, Mr Clifton-Brown recently visited).
The flood gates in the Coln valley were opened, by a politically-motivate
d gang, all too happy to consider consequences - when it is too late. I understand lately that more Planning Applications are imminent. Presumably, these are bouyed up by the successful Planning precedents already rubber-stamped.