As the post-flood clear-up continues, we’re exploring ways in which farmers may be able to help prevent future flooding, by keeping water upstream. In this programme we hear about a gigantic sock which can help hold water back, and keep it upstream in farmers’ fields. Programme no longer available
Civic Voice Design Awards 2015 winner, ‘Slowing the Flow’, saves Pickering from floods.
Amongst the recent floods, there is a story from Pickering which is giving hope to the towns and villages which were affected. Pickering has been flooded time and time again but this time remained dry due to a new, cost effective flood defence called ‘Slowing the Flow’. Following a series of devastating floods, spanning from 1999 to… Read more »
What is a one hundred year flood? BBC Radio 4 “More or less” examines the meaning
Tim Harford and the team take a look at some of the numbers in the news about flooding. What is a one hundred year flood? And is there really a north-south divide in the amount of money spent on flood defences in England? (3.10 onwards) Listen here to programme on 10th January 2016
Robert Jenrick’s speech in the Parliamentary debate on flooding on 6th January 2016
Robert Jenrick (Newark) (Con): I am fortunate that my Newark constituency has not been seriously flooded in this winter’s flooding, but it has been among the worst-flooded of any constituency in the country over the past few years. Forty towns and villages in my constituency have been flooded in the past three years alone, including… Read more »
Normal weather is a thing of the past
From Communications and Management for Sustainability (CMS) A relentless sequence of storms, record rainfall and sustained very high river flows in parts of the UK meant that December was an extraordinary month in both meteorological and hydrological terms, with wet conditions across the north contributed to the wettest calendar month on record for the UK… Read more »
Debate in Parliament on Flooding – 6th January 2016
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs made a statement on Tuesday 5 January on flooding and was questioned by MPs about it. You can watch the statement and questions here: http://goo.gl/qGRZX6 You can read the statement and questions here: http://goo.gl/D5HE7g On Thursday 6 January, the House of Commons debated flooding. You… Read more »
Discussion on floods – Radio 5 Live – Thursday 7th January 2016 – features Jillian Labadz of NTU Brackenhurst
Peter Allen holding a discussion of the floods on Radio 5 Live, with an audience and panel including Government Floods Envoy Robert Goodwill MP (on the telephone, he was not in the room with the audience) York and Leeds City Council leaders (Judith Blake and Chris Steward) Shadow Floods Minister Alex Cunningham MP Architect Robert… Read more »
EFRA Committee Interview the Environment Agency
Scope of the inquiry – This one-off session was organised in response to Storm Desmond in early December. The first panel comprises of representatives from Cumbria. Since then, Storms Eva and Frank have brought flooding to Yorkshire and Lancashire as well as continued flooding to Cumbria. The second panel with the Environment Agency looks at flooding… Read more »
Pickering’s natural flood management scheme works
How a town in Yorkshire worked with nature to stay dry One notorious Yorkshire flood blackspot was celebrating staying dry – despite having been refused a multimillion pound defence scheme. They built 167 leaky dams of logs and branches – which let normal flows through but restrict and slow down high ones – in the… Read more »
Experts criticise George Osborne over flood protection funding
Tories promised £400m a year investment on flood defences but data shows spending was cut sharply at start of last parliament George Osborne has been accused of jeopardising Britain’s crumbling flood defences over the past five years by prioritising cuts to the deficit, and has also been warned that infrastructure spending may need to rise… Read more »
