At the RBWM Council Meeting on 11 March 2024 a motion 0n land drainage infrastructure maintenance was debated and resolved as follows: RESOLVED unanimously that this council takes immediate action to ensure…
Author: ecwlarcombe
Flooding Questions – for RBWM 25/9/2024
The DHW Ward of RBWM has been flooded four times since the construction of the MWEFAS channel (Jubilee River) that improves protection for Windsor, Eton and Maidenhead. RBWM has failed to ensure…
Rule change on taking furniture to the tip?
This is a BBC report from Devon as follows: New Environment Agency (EA) regulations demand upholstered furniture is stored and transported separately from other non-recyclable waste – even when it is all…
Letter to Minister from RBWM and response
RBWM wrote to the Minister about the River Thames Scheme and flooding. Both the RBWM letter (dated 22 July 2024) and the Minister’s response (dated 5 September 2024) are shown below:
Proposed Riparian Strategy
Wraysbury Parish Council Meeting 16-9-2024 (Item 7) Today Wraysbury Parish Council (like many others) has little or no support from the Authorities when it comes to land drainage infrastructure maintenance. The Floods…
Flood areas are not poor enough to help!
This is a newspaper extract from Surrey News dated 24 March 2004. Here we are – twenty years later – and the situation today is worse than it was then due to…
“Your watercourse: rights and roles”.
The Environment Agency has updated the information about riparian ownership and created a leaflet called “Your watercourse: rights and roles”. This new leaflet ( .pdf – 1Mb – 56 pages) is printable,…
RBWM Property Company Ltd
This is an extract from the Grant Thornton letter to Councillors. We have identified concerns about the governance, efficiency and effectiveness of the Council’s wholly-owned property company which is currently the subject…
RBWM Council- ‘and then there were six!’
With the recent resignation of former Mayor Cllr John Story – that leaves only six surviving RBWM Conservatives. The current Members list can be found here
RBWM Councillor resignation 10/9/2024
According to reports – RBWM former Mayor Cllr Story (Ascot and Sunninghill – Conservative) has resigned with immediate effect.