A futuristic view of flooding proofing urban environments They call it “pave, pipe, and pump”: the mentality that has dominated urban development for over a century. Along with the explosion of the motorcar in the early 20th century came paved surfaces. Rainwater – instead of being sucked up by plants, evaporating, or filtering through the… Read more »
Is Britain Prepared for Floods?
Enhancing Flood Resilience through Innovation, Technology and Collaboration – Central London – Thursday 8th February 2018 Present estimates state that annual flood damages for the whole of the UK are £1.1 billion, with around 5.4 million properties in England at risk of flooding from rivers, the sea, surface water or all three. In 2017 costal… Read more »
Are you flood aware? Community resilience and Road Closure sessions
As part of the Southwell Flood Forum’s aim to help make Southwell and its residents more flood resilient we continue organise events to raise awareness of our flood risk, offer suggestions of how to be more prepared not just for flooding but for any emergency incident inform residents about the Road Closure Scheme train and… Read more »
National Flood Forum Bulletin – July 2017 – National Flood Risk Management Strategy – help to shape the future
National Flood Forum needs your help. Now is a great time to use your voice to shape our future flood risk. They suggest you to write to your MP and Dr Thérèse Coffey MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment and Rural Life Opportunities, to ask that the work underway to refresh the… Read more »
Presentation to the Flood and Coast Conference – March 2017
Tim Farr, Chair of Southwell Flood Forum gave a presentation at the Flood and Coast Conference on March 29th 2017 at Telford and was on the panel for a question and answer session on “What can organisations do to work better with communities?”. The presentation also includes suggestions on the way forward. The Conference was… Read more »
National Flood Forum – bulletin March 2017. Planning issues, Natural Flood Management
Read the March 2017 – Bulletin News on the NFF conference on ‘Are We Planning to Flood?’ – reflections on the issues raised about planning considerations relating to flood risk Natural Flood Management Riparian management
A talk on Southwell, The Greet and Anglo-Saxon approaches to the modern flood threat
Drawing on place-names and the earliest historical records for Southwell and the surrounding area, Dr Richard Jones, Associate Professor in Landscape History at the University of Leicester, will give a talk on Anglo-Saxon understandings of water and its management, and what lessons we might draw from their knowledge of the landscape today. This fascinating subject… Read more »
Slowing the Flow Talk – 2nd February 2017
About 100 people attended the very interesting and enlightening talk which generated many questions and concerns. Jillian stressed Josh’s project is purely about using land at Brackenhurst at the moment and that engineered mitigation is still being planned by Nottinghamshire County Council with Government Grant-in-Aid funding. A scheme to hold back water in Springfield Dumble… Read more »
Natural Flood Management at Brackenhurst – project design
A comprehensive Wells and Labadz 2016 Report to the SFF-Natural Flood Management on Brackenhurst Land on the work on NFM on Brackenhurst land as part of the PhD research by Josh Wells. It also gives some preliminary hydrographs from storm Angus and some images captured shortly after with the drone.
National Flood Forum Bulletin – December 2016 – personal experiences
Read here of people’s experiences in the National Flood Forum’s bulletin. No doubt many in Southwell will understand and empathise. “A year after the Boxing Day floods that destroyed homes and businesses across northern England, we bring you this special bulletin and share the stories of those people who suffered. The devastation caused by Storms… Read more »
