Read the March 2017 – Bulletin News on the NFF conference on ‘Are We Planning to Flood?’ – reflections on the issues raised about planning considerations relating to flood risk Natural Flood Management Riparian management
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 »
Slowing the Flow Talk – 2nd February 2017
About 100 people attended the very interesting and enlightening talk which generated many questions and concerns. Jillian stressed Josh’s project is purely about using land at Brackenhurst at the moment and that engineered mitigation is still being planned by Nottinghamshire County Council with Government Grant-in-Aid funding. A scheme to hold back water in Springfield Dumble… Read more »
Natural Flood Management – Guardian January 2016
The UK doesn’t yet have much experience of using natural landscape absorption methods. Working with nature to hold back floodwater – by measures like planting trees or renaturalising landscapes to store or absorb more water – is an attractive idea we all hope may be part of a future solution. But with something as important… Read more »
Natural Flood Management at Brackenhurst – project design
A comprehensive Wells and Labadz 2016 Report to the SFF-Natural Flood Management on Brackenhurst Land on the work on NFM on Brackenhurst land as part of the PhD research by Josh Wells. It also gives some preliminary hydrographs from storm Angus and some images captured shortly after with the drone.
National Flood Forum Bulletin – December 2016 – personal experiences
Read here of people’s experiences in the National Flood Forum’s bulletin. No doubt many in Southwell will understand and empathise. “A year after the Boxing Day floods that destroyed homes and businesses across northern England, we bring you this special bulletin and share the stories of those people who suffered. The devastation caused by Storms… Read more »
“Slowing the Flow” – a talk on Southwell’s first natural flood management project to help reduce flood risk in the town- 2nd February 2017
The first project to help reduce flooding in the town has been completed by Josh Wells, a PhD student at NTU Brackenhurst who is working with hydrologist Dr Jillian Labadz and the Environment Agency, together with Stuart Smith (Smith JCB Hire of Southwell) who has dug long and hard in difficult circumstances to complete the… Read more »
Guardian view on flooding – more focus needed
9th November 2016 Water is as much a part of the landscape of Britain as England’s cathedral spires, or the mountains of Scotland and the valleys of Wales. The nation’s cities were built on rivers and its fortunes on the seas. There is an ancient and respectful relationship that recognises the capacity of water not… Read more »
Natural measures must be key to UK flood protection, MPs urge
2nd November 2016 Report also criticises government’s plans and funding and calls for Environment Agency to be stripped of responsibility for flooding Natural ways of stopping floods, such as tree planting and putting logs in rivers to slow water flow must be a key part of protecting the nation as climate change intensifies rain storms,… Read more »
