The Southwell Flood Forum, in collaboration with Green Southwell, has produced a leaflet Included in this month’s Bramley to Southwell residents help them reduce run-off from drives and increase biodiversity. The leaflet is also online here and at greensouthwell.
org.uk
Bramley article – January 2025 – Volunteer groups thanked for flood action
The heavy rain on the 5th and 6th January came as an unwelcome reminder of Storm Henk at the same time last year. A very similar sequence of events occurred this time with villages including Lowdham, Halam and Woodborough facing surface water flooding of some roads and properties and then the villages in theTrent… Read more »
Defibrillators Southwell and surrounds
Map as at 2025_01_17
Bramley – October 2024 – Nottinghamshire County Council wins award
Flooding Volunteer Scheme wins National Award The Community Flood Signage Scheme, operated by Nottinghamshire County Council, has been honoured with the prestigious Flood and Coast Excellence Award in the Community Action category.Launched in 2011, the scheme now boasts over 485 registered volunteer flood signage wardens who play a crucial role in closing roads susceptible to… Read more »
Bramley – October 2023 news update – Road Closure Scheme
The community road closure scheme here in Southwell has been running since 2015 and currently has 60 trained Road Closure Wardens. These wonderful volunteers respond whenever heavy rainfall threatens to cause dangerous local flooding. Training enables volunteers to close certain roads, at particular points, to stop cars driving through flood-water when specific depths are reached…. Read more »
Bramley news – Potwell mitigation, TV appearance
Update on Potwell Dyke alleviation. Recently we were invited to an online catch-up recently with VIA on the Potwell Dyke alleviation scheme. The outstanding three ‘holding objections’ about the project have been addressed by VIA and the interested bodies meaning the planning application will now be going to committee in January. There will be some… Read more »
Bramley news – Goodbye to core members
Recently Southwell Flood forum has said goodbye to 3 founding core members. Rob Jordan was our first Joint Chair and worked tirelessly to steer the Forum and help lobby authorities to get mitigation measures designed and funded. John Cook similarly worked alongside Rob and helped raise funds for the community contribution to those measures. Dave… Read more »
Bramley – Natural Flood Management
An innovative talk on natural flood management (NFM) was held at Nottingham Trent University Brackenhurst Campus (supported by WWF and AVIVA Insurance). The talk was prompted by the Southwell Flood Forum who have been actively supporting NFM alongside mor traditional techniques to reduce flood risk. Dr Lucy Clarke at the University provided an overvieww of… Read more »
Bramley news – Southwell Flood Mitigation drop in – Thursday 16th May – 14.00 to 18.00 – Southwell Library
Representatives from Nottinghamshire County Council, VIA East Midlands Ltd and other key agencies will be present for a Southwell Community Flood Mitigation drop in session on Thursday 16th May at Southwell Library. There will be an overview of the projects that have been completed on flood risk management in Southwell since the flood event in… Read more »
Bramley News – Southwell Flood Forum at Lowes Wong
Core members of the Southwell Flood Forum Holger Kessler, Rob Fisher and Jacky Huson had a great day with year 4 pupils and teachers at Lowes Wong School, Southwell last month when we gave an afternoon’s session on flooding to each of the three classes. The school grounds are at the highest point in Southwell… Read more »
