After days of flooding, evacuations, school closures, a tragic river death and a ministerial visit, will the county’s flood defences receive some investment?
Direct consequence of global heating. Record levels of rainfall since 19th century. Two months rain in just two days. Not just UK but across Europe. In contrast the Amazon rain forest is drying up and there are fires raging across Brazil. And the effects of global heating are only just starting. Unless emergency action is taken to reduce global emissions of CO2 (from fossil fuels) it will only get worse - much worse.
MP Sally Kemble should campain for more affordable housing for the 'residents' of Billing Aquadrome. Northamptonshire. In 1944 The previous owners of the park (Mackaness Family) were given permission by the then Northampton Council to place Prefabricated houses for homeless on the closed Quarry site. 80 years on, and several selfish Governments later, the Park is still home for people who may not have other residential accommodation, just a legal address for bill paying etc. As the area does have residential Lodge Parks, it must be posssible to make some changes on the Park, and still allow the very pleasing changes the New Owners have made to the' Fun' areas that are now in situ.
Money is in the bank waiting to be used. Billing Brook just happen to be a few meters from our front door. We have contacted over the years the Council, the environment to come and clear all of the trees that have fallen into the Brook. This stopped the water flowing freely. Do the Council want more death?
Several elected local clowns now want to get on the band wagon. They do this to cover up their incompetentence. Enough with the b.....t more action is require urgently! Finally everyone knows that homes in Billing Aquadrome are not to be used permanently.
Another observation is that Leader of WNC, cllr Adam Brown, appears quick to try to rasp any monies available for WNC from the new government but strangely, I feel, did not chase down the previous government, when things went pear-shaped back here in Northants.
Is anything to do with party politics pushing aside the people of WNC?
Chatting with a senior manager from Kier recently, I was interested to hear his views as to why there is so much more flooding in recent times.
His views, whilst not dismissing Global warming as a factor, he was at pains to stress the lack of field ploughing on arable farms.
He explained that modern techniques try to avoid such time consuming jobs by planting straight into the soil.
The result is that the soil cant absorb the rainfall, leading to more prevelant fast rising floods and not the previous situation of slow release into the streams and rivers.
An interesting take and one I can understand that needs to be addressed for everybody's sake.
Direct consequence of global heating. Record levels of rainfall since 19th century. Two months rain in just two days. Not just UK but across Europe. In contrast the Amazon rain forest is drying up and there are fires raging across Brazil. And the effects of global heating are only just starting. Unless emergency action is taken to reduce global emissions of CO2 (from fossil fuels) it will only get worse - much worse.
MP Sally Kemble should campain for more affordable housing for the 'residents' of Billing Aquadrome. Northamptonshire. In 1944 The previous owners of the park (Mackaness Family) were given permission by the then Northampton Council to place Prefabricated houses for homeless on the closed Quarry site. 80 years on, and several selfish Governments later, the Park is still home for people who may not have other residential accommodation, just a legal address for bill paying etc. As the area does have residential Lodge Parks, it must be posssible to make some changes on the Park, and still allow the very pleasing changes the New Owners have made to the' Fun' areas that are now in situ.
The need for flood defences wouldn't be so urgent if WNC stopped authorising building on fields well know to be prone to flooding.
Money is in the bank waiting to be used. Billing Brook just happen to be a few meters from our front door. We have contacted over the years the Council, the environment to come and clear all of the trees that have fallen into the Brook. This stopped the water flowing freely. Do the Council want more death?
Several elected local clowns now want to get on the band wagon. They do this to cover up their incompetentence. Enough with the b.....t more action is require urgently! Finally everyone knows that homes in Billing Aquadrome are not to be used permanently.
Another observation is that Leader of WNC, cllr Adam Brown, appears quick to try to rasp any monies available for WNC from the new government but strangely, I feel, did not chase down the previous government, when things went pear-shaped back here in Northants.
Is anything to do with party politics pushing aside the people of WNC?
Chatting with a senior manager from Kier recently, I was interested to hear his views as to why there is so much more flooding in recent times.
His views, whilst not dismissing Global warming as a factor, he was at pains to stress the lack of field ploughing on arable farms.
He explained that modern techniques try to avoid such time consuming jobs by planting straight into the soil.
The result is that the soil cant absorb the rainfall, leading to more prevelant fast rising floods and not the previous situation of slow release into the streams and rivers.
An interesting take and one I can understand that needs to be addressed for everybody's sake.
When the minister Steve Reed was interviewed on Look East he drew attention to unspent money that was allocated by the government for flood defence.
Is this applicable to the Nene Valley or elsewhere in Northamptonshire?