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Flood risk as 10,000 new homes planned for Hereford

Hereford is no stranger to flooding. Pictured: River Wye in flood <i>(Image: Darius Andrijauskas)</i>
Hereford is no stranger to flooding. Pictured: River Wye in flood (Image: Darius Andrijauskas)
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THE SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment of the LTP5 local transport plan assumes no increased flooding from proposed road development west of Hereford to access land for a new 10,000 house settlement.

Why is the risk of flooding from soil sealing west of Hereford, and the increased intensity of flooding from climate change, excluded from any Strategic Environmental Assessment, of LTP5 given the increasing threat to our largest city and the high capital costs of mitigation building and maintaining extensive flood retention tanks, ponds and reservoirs?


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The public is well aware that this is the catchment that still floods Hereford city, despite millions invested in the Yazor Brook SuDS Sustainable Drainage System.

It is also the catchment that required extensive remodelling of the proposed flood alleviation scheme, for just 350 houses in phase I of Three Elms development.

Surely some mistake by the planners of our infrastructure?

EMIL MORFETT

Hereford

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