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Talk on Gravel Gardens – Southwell Gardening Club – Tuesday 19th April 7.30
Mike Wilkinson of University of Sheffield will talk on Beth Chatto inspired and flood mitigating gravel gardens. A gravel garden is a great option for a low maintenance garden. It lends itself to Mediterranean-style drought-tolerant planting so things like lavender, euphorbias, Cistus, Santolina and Phlomis are ideal and provide plenty of nectar and pollen for… Read more »
The Worsfold Review on Government’s Flood and Coastal Risk Management
The independent peer review was conducted by Mark Worsfold, Chief Engineer at Ofwat. It looked at the maintenance of the Environment Agency’s flood and coastal risk management (FCRM) assets. Link to the Report here The Environment Agency has replied to the Worsfold Review here Environmental Audit Committee – EAC: Following another winter of severe UK… Read more »
Johnny Fenn, a former Gurkha officer and his book about life after the earthquake in Nepal
Johnny Fenn was a Gurkha officer for 15 years before becoming a professional photographer. A week after the devastating earthquake in Nepal in 2015, he returned to the middle valleys of the country with his camera. In this area, the main recruitment region for Gurkha soldiers, he photographed local people left devastated after the disaster,… Read more »
Flood Re starts – 4th April 2016
Flood Re should make it easier for people in flood-risk areas to get affordable household insurance. Thousands of homeowners and residents currently struggle to get buildings and contents insurance which creates anxiety, stress and frustration. The National Flood Forum has been working with government and the insurance industry for several years to come up with… Read more »
Helping to reduce flood risk in Southwell – a developer’s view
The old Rainbow freight yard at the Burgage, Southwell provides a very good example of the opportunities presented by the redevelopment of previously-used sites in helping to tackle local flood risks. Built before modern planning laws came into place, all the hard-surfaces within this former industrial site added to the load on local drainage infrastructure,… Read more »
The Life Scientific (Radio 4) – Carolyn Roberts – 22.3.16 on “problem solving in watery places”
Barely a month goes by without news of another catastrophic flood somewhere in the world, like the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 or the flooding of New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina a year later, and the role of climate change is often mooted. Here in the UK this winter, flood victims were once again caught… Read more »
Presentation on The impact of climate change – 9th March 2016
The impact of climate change 4.00pm-6.30pm Wednesday 9th March 2016 Nottingham Sustainability & Enterprise Centre New College, Basford Hall, Stockhill Lane, NG6 0NB The recent severe storms and floods that affected many parts of the UK demonstrated the increasing impacts of climate change on our local environment. This event features presentations from: – Environment Agency –… Read more »
Minster School helps with ‘Clean for the Queen’
On Monday 7th March, the group took part in the national ‘Clean for the Queen’ campaign. Read more
DEFRA and DECC publish their departmental plans 2015-2020
The Defra 2015-2020 plan Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs publishes its departmental plan for 2015-2020, outlining priority areas in flooding, air pollution and wildlife diversity The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released its five-year plan for delivering a cleaner, healthier environment while encouraging growth and prosperity in the UK’s… Read more »
