Stafford Traffic.

Zylo

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Not only cars / roads being a issue in stafford, also floods

but you know, more houses everywhere!!!

Will be a new service in a few years, who you gonna call when the roads are flooded ?? that's right Dingy taxi services.
 

kyoto49

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Has anyone got a photo of the land about to be built on at the end of St Leonards please, where MRI was, has it flooded?
 

Zylo

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Has anyone got a photo of the land about to be built on at the end of St Leonards please, where MRI was, has it flooded?

Afraid not, I would pop out and see myself and take a photo- but would be to dark now.

no more rain forecast for a while so hopefully it'll all sort itself out eitherway.
 

Thehooperman

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Has anyone got a photo of the land about to be built on at the end of St Leonards please, where MRI was, has it flooded?

I drove along Fairway tonight and could see flooding through the trees but I couldn't see whether it had reached where the old car park was as it was too dark and I was driving.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Has anyone got a photo of the land about to be built on at the end of St Leonards please, where MRI was, has it flooded?
No photo. But when I drove past earlier today I had a look and there didn't appear to be any flooding. @c0tt0nt0p might have a better idea though.

Ignore my post above, I thought you'd said main works. I shall booking an appointment at Specsavers in due course.
 
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Cue

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https://www.facebook.com/SmallPieceOfStafford/photos/a.1430925320530229/2845890869033660/

Maybe, just maybe, this will be the breaking point where the tenants actually insist something be done about it as it loses them business. I can't see Aldi taking that sitting down if it becomes a regular issue, basically the whole carpark is inaccessible.
 

Gramaisc

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Maybe, just maybe, this will be the breaking point where the tenants actually insist something be done about it as it loses them business. I can't see Aldi taking that sitting down if it becomes a regular issue, basically the whole carpark is inaccessible.
What's left of the Lidl car park was mostly under water today, too.

It's hard to see what 'something' could be, at least in the short term, beyond lifting everything (in that vicinity) up a couple of feet.
 

Lucy

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But only lifting in up on stilts and letting the water wash beneath surely, otherwise the water will rise by some of those inches...
 

Zylo

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Sorry I know it's a bit off-topic but as we're on the subject (and there isn't one on the forum)

The poor design of water management in modern housing estates is exasperating the flooding situation in Stafford/Staffordshire.
We need to see more Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) incorporated into designs to prevent what has Eccleshall has experienced over the last few days. The water in these pictures is surface run off which is heading into the Sow.

-Staffordshire wildlife trust

Spot on, which is what I meant with my posts earlier.

Look at castletown/doxy areas wonder if we'll see more flooding on the lichfield road in future with the houses being built along there, and new developments set in place
 

The Hawk

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Sorry I know it's a bit off-topic but as we're on the subject (and there isn't one on the forum)

The poor design of water management in modern housing estates is exasperating the flooding situation in Stafford/Staffordshire.
We need to see more Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) incorporated into designs to prevent what has Eccleshall has experienced over the last few days. The water in these pictures is surface run off which is heading into the Sow.

-Staffordshire wildlife trust

Spot on, which is what I meant with my posts earlier.

Look at castletown/doxy areas wonder if we'll see more flooding on the lichfield road in future with the houses being built along there, and new developments set in place
Perhaps worth posting on this thread? http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/index.php?threads/defending-the-floodplain.20177/
 

kyoto49

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Maybe, just maybe, this will be the breaking point where the tenants actually insist something be done about it as it loses them business. I can't see Aldi taking that sitting down if it becomes a regular issue, basically the whole carpark is inaccessible.

This area has always flooded, its the flood plain. What did the developers or the businesses expect, or was it a shock to them after hundreds of years of flooding that this site..... er..... flooded? Smh
 
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