Southwell Flood Risk Management Project Update

Posted & filed under Bramley Newspaper, Community Resilience, Flood Mitigation, Potwell Dyke Flood Group.

WHILE works to finalise the design of the scheme at Potwell Dyke are ongoing, a number of different schemes are continuing to progress across Southwell.You may remember from previous editions that works on Church Street have been split into two stages, with the first completed in February.Phase two of this part of the scheme is… Read more »

Flood Prevention Update

Posted & filed under Bramley Newspaper, Flood Mitigation, Potwell Dyke Flood Group.

MANY of you will have heard about the plans for flooding works at Potwell Dyke, near the Minster Playing Fields, just off Church Street.The process of putting a proposed scheme together in this area has included careful consideration of not only the buried archaeology, but also the setting of the Minster and preserving the views… Read more »

Flood Prevention landscaping at Lowes Wong School

Posted & filed under Bramley Newspaper, Community Resilience, Flood Mitigation, Natural Flood Management.

Following the flooding in Southwell in 2013 the Lowe’s Wong Schools have been working with Nottinghamshire Local Authority to look at ways of reducing the run-off from the school site.Initial plans were too expensive at the time, but work started in the Spring of 2020 to landscape the schools’ fields to reduce the flow’.The substantial… Read more »

14th January 2021 heavy snow/rainfall

Posted & filed under Flood Mitigation.

Selected areas around town Halloughton Road, Nottingham Road, Park Lane, Trail ditch A walk along the River Greet from Greet Lily Mill to Maythorne A drone view around the fields near Greet Lily Mill