Flooding
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Loftus clerk Sarah Yates receives a kit from Asiya Dawood of Cleveland Emergency Planning Unit | SUPPORT FLOODS IN TO SAFEGUARD LOFTUS LOFTUS Town Hall has been chosen to take part in the pilot Building Resilience Together project being coordinated by the British Red Cross and Groundworks in partnership with Aviva. The North Yorkshire community suffers with extreme weather events such as flooding and being cut off due to heavy snowfall. Loftus Town Council has been developing an emergency plan and is well on the way to having the town hall set up as a functional resilience hub. During the last two flooding events it has meant sandbags have been distributed to residents much faster and properties prevented from flooding and/or the impact of the flooding minimised. Clerks & Councils Direct, September 2024
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City of Doncaster Council has secured £600,000 worth of Government funding to reduce the risk of flooding in BENTLEY. The upper reaches of Bentley Mill Stream is one of 40 projects across the country, which will benefit from £25 million of investment in natural flood management. Natural processes, such as planting trees and wetlands within the immediate area of the Yorkshire stream will help slow the flow of rain and surface water.
Clerks & Councils Direct, May 2024
 | PRACTICE FLOOD EXERCISE HELPS TOWN PREPARE Staff from BUCKINGHAM Town Council have taken part in a multi-agency flooding simulation organised by Buckinghamshire Council. During the exercise, officers dealt with a hypothetical flood hitting the river Great Ouse, and a number of other rivers and settlements in the area. For scale, those taking part were asked to imagine a flood similar to the severe flooding that hit Buckingham in December 2020 that flooded at least 72 properties. Alongside representatives from the Environment Agency, Emergency Services, Strategic Flood Management, Local Area Liaison, Environmental Health, Social Care and Communications and Transport, Buckingham town council officers practiced implementing the Community Flood Plan. The plan involves using the town council’s local knowledge to coordinate volunteers to phone vulnerable people and check if they need help, with volunteers and staff deployed to support other services and those residents most in need. Town clerk, Claire Molyneux said: “Sadly our staff are getting quite experienced at dealing with flooding in our town. However, this exercise was a great opportunity to continue learning and improving our response. Clerks & Councils Direct November 2023 |
LUDLOW Town Council in Shropshire held a public event on 23 August to help educate residents about river flooding and safety around water. The day was held in partnership with Shropshire Fire and Rescue, West Mercia Police and the Environment Agency, and included demonstrations of the town’s new throwline boards and advice on lifesaving techniques.
Clerks & Councils Direct, September 2023
The mayor of SEVENOAKS in Kent, Cllr Merilyn Canet, sent a message of sympathy and support to the community of Rheinbach, its twin town in Germany, which was one of many towns in northern Europe hit by devastating floods in mid-July. The local Friends of Rheinbach Group and the town council were looking into practical ways of helping.
Clerks & Councils Direct, September 2021