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You mean more flood displacement, so somewhere else gets it instead?I went past the other day and they seem to have raised the level by quite a bit from what it used to be when I was there.
Yes, Black Poplars Matter.Vin Garbutt's song 'Black Poplar' sums it up neatly, with these lyrics about the floodplain:
But with pride and with disdain disregarding future pain,
In a manner most insane we build homes upon your plain,
Time and time again we invaded nature's drain,
Just to suffer when the waters rise again.
It does look like the rather nice poplar in Lidl's car-park might also be in some danger of 'improvement'.
The drilling rig was in the bowling alley car-park until today, having moved over the river from Sainsbury's at some point recently.
Signed, every little helps.Someone has set this up
https://www.change.org/p/staffordshire-county-council-urgent-flood-action-for-stafford
Probably pointless but what the heck
Ooooh. Advertising a rivalSigned, every little helps.
Signed, every little helps.
Ironically, we've actually lost a rugby field and green land due to houses and a retirement village being build in castlefields, ok I'm aware they've just technically moved the rugby club. But still, hardly fair on residents who liked the green area.I have never understood why developers can get away with building shoddy shit houses with absolutely no requirement to fund proper improvement of infrastructure incl flood mitigation. With all the new houses currently being built in Stafford the planners should have enforced proper recreational spaces, football and rugby pitches etc, proper cycling infrastructure, segregated cycle paths, and proper flood mitigations in exchange for planning permission. Other towns seem to manage this.
Ironically, we've actually lost a rugby field and green land due to houses and a retirement village being build in castlefields, ok I'm aware they've just technically moved the rugby club. But still, hardly fair on residents who liked the green area.
It's a shame new houses are getting smaller and smaller with no gardens.
I was listening to a programme yesterday that said having a garden now adds more value onto your property than it ever did .