A dry ditch will be built in Southwell to try to protect homes from flooding.
Southwell Town Council agreed to the ditch for Minster Fields, behind Farthingate.
It could potentially reduce the risk of flooding for residents of Harvey’s Field.
The town council has become the riparian owner of the stretch of the dyke that runs through the fields because it is leasing Minster Fields from Nottinghamshire County Council.
The dry ditch would run next to Potwell Dyke.
It is hoped that, if the dyke bursts its banks after heavy rain, water would flow into the ditch and not across the fields towards nearby homes.
Residents of Harvey’s Field were badly affected by flooding when the Potwell Dyke burst its banks in 2007.
A town councillor, Mr Peter Harris, said A. and V. Squires Plant of Southwell had offered to do the work for free.
In return, they wanted permission to put up a memorial to Mr Doug Squires who created Squire’s Pond on the edge of Minster Fields about 25 years ago.
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