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National Flood Forum – Bulletin November 2017 – communities working to take control of flooding
The National Flood Forum works in communities and with partners to support people at risk from flooding, and should flooding occur, to help them recover. Communities lie at the centre of this and throughout this bulletin there are examples of people working to take control of the flooding in their lives, as well as some… Read more »
Flood project gets ministerial backing
A project to help prevent severe flooding in Southwell has been backed by a Government minister. Therese Coffey, a minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, told Southwell’s MP, Mr Robert Jenrick, the project represented good value for money and was very likely to be approved.] Read more
Calls for flood money figure
Southwell Town Council has been criticised for not yet agreeing how much money it will provide for flood defences in the town. Newark and Sherwood District Council has committed £220,000. The government has pledged £720,000; Nottinghamshire County Council £600,000; and the community itself, through the leadership of Southwell Flood Forum, is looking to raise £125,000…. 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 »
UK should increasingly expect record winter rains, says Met Office
Aided by a supercomputer, meteorologists find 34% chance of record monthly rainfall being set, raising fears about major flooding Guardian article here Times article here
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 »
Be aware + be prepared = Community Resilience
It’s over a year since the last mammoth Community Resilience and Training event at Brackenhurst. Since our Emergency Plan Co-ordinator, James Parker left Southwell last October, we have been reviewing the Road Closure Scheme and looking at ways to improve Community Resilience – not just for flooding but for any emergency incident. We’ve organised some… Read more »
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 »
The Sunday Times 12th March 2017 – Southwell among top 20 places to live
We didn’t have an entry in Nottinghamshire last year, so we’re glad to sing the praises of this small town, with the soaring Minster rising above grand Georgian houses and a photogenic high street. Southwell is only 15 miles from Nottingham, but has no whiff of suburb or dormitory: it has its own personality, established… Read more »
