History is now repeating itself on the Jubilee River! The EA has forgotten the mistakes of the past and has just made the same mistake again. When the Jubilee River buoys were…
Author: ecwlarcombe
RTS Consultation – Summary Report
The summary report on the Environment Agency’s River Thames Scheme Consultation (dated August 2024) is now available and can be found here The full report should become available when the application for…
Motorbike rider on Datchet Recreation Ground
Location/time: Datchet Recreation Ground 2.15pm
Flood risk management and partnership funding
This briefing paper (published November 2024) provides an overview of flood and coastal risk management in the UK, including which bodies manage risk, current policy on flood risk management, and how flood…
Online petition to Unblock the Wraysbury Drain now is now active
The Online petition – Unblock the Wraysbury Drain – is now active and will run from 24 Nov 2024 to 24 May 2025 RBWM is the designated lead local flood authority with…
WITHDRAWN – Fowles Crushed Concrete planning appeal
Extract from RBWM – Appeal Decision Report 28 October 2024 – 27 November 2024 Appeal Ref.: 24/60101/COND Planning Ref.: Appellant: Mr William Fowles c/o Agent: Mr Michael Krantz 1 Cornhill London EC3V…
Wraysbury ‘vulnerable’ at start of flood season RBWM told
Extract from Slough Observer 26-11-2024 Wraysbury ‘vulnerable’ at start of flood season RBWM told By Nick Clark – Local Democracy Reporter People in a flood-hit village have been left feeling ‘very…
How much money does the Environment Agency spend on maintaining designated main rivers?
How much public money (that is – your money) does the Environment Agency actually spend every year on maintaining the designated main rivers that are their responsibility? By that I mean maintaining…
Flooding coming again? Jubilee control gates in use?
Valencia and Malaga? Cars heaped in car parks and floating down the river? Just a thought! It is not even 12 months since the last flood event here – but no watercourse…
More rain – and another petition required!
The Wraysbury Drain is an important, ancient and mostly hidden but abandoned land drainage channel in East Berkshire. Having been blocked for years this waterway is now an elongated lake of stagnant…