Southwell digital map guidelines

Posted & filed under Blog.

Guidelines for use of the digital map – launched May 2021 – under construction and open to revision based on information from residents Presentation on the Guidelines for navigating the digital map Click the layer icon to bring up the ‘menu’ of map layers Navigate to Southwell (it opens centred on Lowdham) and zoom in… 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 »

Digital map

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Feel free to explore the map and feed back to us your thoughts/experiences. (bit.ly/southwelldigitalmap) This initiative is based on a webinar arranged by National Flood Forum on the Pang Valley Flood Forum’s interactive online map. It is way to represent our town in an accessbile interactive way that will help residents, authorities, planners, Flood Wardens… Read more »