Defending the Floodplain.

Gramaisc

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That was one of my many issues with the new rugby club. The public lost a large green space that was open to all surrounded with mature trees and hedgerows. The new rugby club is most definitely NOT open to all judging by the massive ugly security fence around it :(

I've yet to find anyone who has bought one of these new poorly built rabbit hutches?
The two main prerequisites in these circumstances are -

A compliant local planning arrangement.

People who will actually give you the money for the 'finished' products.



It does seem that the new estates are pretty much 100% sold fairly quickly.

Take the money and run.
 

Tumble weed

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Give it a few decades, and no doubt the castle grounds will be much smaller, no doubt it'll be surrounded by houses , with them all paying a maintenance fee for the castle itself, and it'll turn to an all exclusive place.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Give it a few decades, and no doubt the castle grounds will be much smaller, no doubt it'll be surrounded by houses , with them all paying a maintenance fee for the castle itself, and it'll turn to an all exclusive place.
Give it a few months and the castle itself may start to flood, in which case the rest of the town may be pretty much buggered.
 
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gilbert grape

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I do wonder how things would have looked with the latest downpours had the old rugby club been built on already?
The one new balancing lake along Kingsway has been close to overflowing and the brooks running off the original lake will only take so much pressure over time. That could lead to the lane between Castlefields/Martin Lane and Castle Street partially flooding at some point, unless is backs up round the old castle works car park. Displacement will be fascinating even if worrying.
All of this also begs the question of how much the drainage from such a new area like the development near the station will affect the locality. The last thing we need is it all overflowing and flooding the railway lines!
 

Tumble weed

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Well the new roads a disaster waiting to happen, who gave the go ahead thinking it was a good idea building a road through somewhere that always floods!!

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gilbert grape

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Well the new roads a disaster waiting to happen, who gave the go ahead thinking it was a good idea building a road through somewhere that always floods!!

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If the road was built with some future proofing like the right height of elevation and retaining barriers that prevented water encroaching it would serve it's purpose. A road that serves areas and relieving pressure "that works" is another matter!
From the virtual video and meetings I've been to I was under the impression that this would be safely elevated and some of the land at the back of the car parks would eventually be handed back to green space to help alleviate some flooding pressure. Still to be convinced on both counts!!!
 

Lucy

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That's not going to make a great deal of difference. The main issue is run off - the water runs to the rivers much more quickly due to all the concrete and paving, rather than soaking in through open ground and making its way to the waterways over a number of days.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
And when ware the local rivers last dredged ?
That's not going to make a great deal of difference. The main issue is run off - the water runs to the rivers much more quickly due to all the concrete and paving, rather than soaking in through open ground and making its way to the waterways over a number of days.
Indeed, extra drainage is a lot of the problem, rather than the solution.

Someone's better drainage is someone else's additional floodwater.

Stuff that's flung into rivers in Stafford has a very long way to go to the sea without flooding loads of other places on the way.
 

Mudgie

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That's not going to make a great deal of difference.
But there's a difference if water runs, albeit more quickly than in the past, into rivers that are lower with having been dredged during the last few years.
 
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