Stafford Brooks Project.

[The Hawk]

BBC TV crew on Doxey Marshes today to promote the Stafford Brooks Project.

Plans for £4.1m Stafford roadside wildlife project

The Stafford scheme to reduce the environmental impact of roads focuses in part on flooding.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Thehooperman]

BBC TV crew on Doxey Marshes today to promote the Stafford Brooks Project.

Plans for £4.1m Stafford roadside wildlife project

The Stafford scheme to reduce the environmental impact of roads focuses in part on flooding.

www.bbc.co.uk

Has the M6 widening actually impacted the marshes?

Don't get me wrong it looks like a great initiative but surely the answer should be to look at alternative means of transport such as rail or no transport rather than pay loads of money to compensate for the environmental damage that road "improvements" have created.

 

[gilesjuk]

If they keep building houses and roads all over the place then of course it will flood. Stafford is basically a big swamp.

 

[Mudgie]

If they keep building houses and roads all over the place then of course it will flood. Stafford is basically a big swamp.

And that's before many houses had been built in Stafford.

 

[Theresa Green]

The lack of water will be the greatest problem for humans here on in

 

[Thehooperman]

Has the M6 widening actually impacted the marshes?

Don't get me wrong it looks like a great initiative but surely the answer should be to look at alternative means of transport such as rail or no transport rather than pay loads of money to compensate for the environmental damage that road "improvements" have created.

But have they built houses on the marshes?

 

[gilesjuk]

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And that's before many houses had been built in Stafford.

That may be so, but many changes to tackle flooding will have taken place since then. I see that when they build some homes now they add a big hole in the ground as well to capture flood water. Like on the new estate by the fire station.

Many flood defences just push the problem elsewhere. What you really need is lots of trees and vegetation to absorb it.

 

[Mudgie]

That may be so, but many changes to tackle flooding will have taken place since then. I see that when they build some homes now they add a big hole in the ground as well to capture flood water. Like on the new estate by the fire station.

Many flood defences just push the problem elsewhere. What you really need is lots of trees and vegetation to absorb it.

Yes, but will it be a big enough hole ?
Time will tell.

 

[gilesjuk]

Yes, but will it be a big enough hole ?
Time will tell.

I've never seen that much water in it yet, it has to get there in the first place. It more likely to run down the roads.

 

[kyoto49]

That may be so, but many changes to tackle flooding will have taken place since then. I see that when they build some homes now they add a big hole in the ground as well to capture flood water. Like on the new estate by the fire station.

Many flood defences just push the problem elsewhere. What you really need is lots of trees and vegetation to absorb it.

Stafford Borough Council planted 7 trees for the 12 months preceding my foi request recently. I can count hundreds they chopped down in the same period. Meanwhile they comically declared a climate emergency. There really is no hope for these idiots

 

[gilesjuk]

Stafford Borough Council planted 7 trees for the 12 months preceding my foi request recently. I can count hundreds they chopped down in the same period. Meanwhile they comically declared a climate emergency. There really is no hope for these idiots

Well, the thing with trees is they grow and councils seem oblivious to this phenomenon. So they stick them in urban areas with paving surrounding the trees then are amazed when the increase of root size causes pavements to buckle.

I'm sure there's plenty of places they could plant trees without hitting this problem.

 

[kyoto49]

Well, the thing with trees is they grow and councils seem oblivious to this phenomenon. So they stick them in urban areas with paving surrounding the trees then are amazed when the increase of root size causes pavements to buckle.

I'm sure there's plenty of places they could plant trees without hitting this problem.

There are an enormous number of places. All down the central reservation of any road, i. e Stone Road. Holmcroft Road along the very wide grass verges to create a beautiful avenue of trees, around the perimeter of Holmcroft field, replace the old trees that came down in the cemetery, the list in endless.

What is interesting is that in cities and towns where the council have a brain they not only manage to plant trees but they plant them close to terraced houses by the gutter. Seen this in Liverpool and London now. You lose a parking space but the street gains nature, shade in summer, cleaner air and oxygen It will never take off in Stafford