Cotswold communities get £110,000-worth of flood funding (From Cotswold Journal)

Cotswold communities get £110,000-worth of flood funding

5:12pm Monday 6th July 2009

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NORTH Cotswolds communities are to share £110,000 to help them fund flood prevention work.

Cotswold District Council received the money from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) after applying to it during 2008 for money to help communities avoid a repeat of the flooding that devastated the area in 2007.

Moreton, Weston-sub-Edge, Chipping Campden and Tagmoor Hollow, near Bourton, will benefit.

The two biggest beneficiaries are the Moreton and Tagmoor Hollow schemes, which will each receive £35,000.

In Moreton, the grant will go towards further modelling work in the Batsford Estate area to determine locations where water can be stored around the town during heavy rainfall.

This will prevent rainwater building up in locations prone to flooding.

At Tagmoor Hollow, the money will be used to replace a culvert in a country lane to eliminate a constriction in the flood relief ditch.

In Chipping Campden, a £20,000 grant will be used to investigate the practicalities of storing water in a new pond at Campden House, to the west of the town.

The landowner has agreed his land can be landscaped and used for floodwater storage during heavy rainfall.

In Weston-sub-Edge, £20,000 will fund a feasibility study into how an extreme amount of rainfall would affect the village and how such an eventuality can be prevented.

Coun Barry Gibbs, council housing and communities portfolio holder, said: “Since the flooding in 2007, we have been working hard with the affected communities throughout the Cotswolds to help prevent any future flooding and are pleased that our application to DEFRA, to support our efforts, has been successful with this grant.“ Consulting firm MWH will undertake the Moreton work, while Hyder Consulting will carry out the Weston-sub-Edge and Tagmoor Hollow projects

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