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Highland councillor says Cloverfield Park flooding in Inverness is 'utterly disgraceful'
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12/10/2023
A Highland councillor is 'appalled' as Inverness residents in Cloverfield Park have endured severe flooding that has ruined their homes for the past 17 years.
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think it's cost factors that have stopped Scottish Water from fixing this
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because it's been 17 years people have said that this has been going on for?
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Well Scottish Water only agreed to fix this properly about two years ago and
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that was once they had an agreement with the original developer who agreed to
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fund it. Once they had that they went in and did the work with the condition
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that the original developer would pay for that. But I think what they've tried
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to do now is they're trying to mitigate any any losses or any costs that they
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may have. So instead of perhaps going in and fixing the whole thing they
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perhaps thought that they didn't need to do the substants where in fact
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evidence has shown that in fact that they do. Floods are some of the worst
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that I've seen in time. The parkland beside it as a council it was so severe
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that we decided to cut a diagonal trench so the water would actually go into the
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diagonal trench and be diverted onto a path and then into a burn. There was
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one another occasion where there was a concrete manhole cover back in 2014 in
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the middle of the park that was blown off with the pressure of water and had a
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child fallen into that it would have been catastrophic. And these are the kind
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of things that they've been dealing with apart from the fact that it undermines
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anyone's ability to try and sell a property because obviously the flood
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risk is so great. And with winter on the approach you know flooding is bound to
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get even worse. It must be really worrying for these residents to go
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through this again and again each year. I mean who do you think should be held
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responsible for this? Well it's certainly Scottish Water now. The ball is
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very firmly in their court. That's why you know I will be lobbying them to come
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in and fix this once and for all. I've already raised it with the teams in
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Highland Council with a roads department. They've made Scottish Water aware that
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the repairs that they've done have been unsuccessful. So we need a successful
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repair. We simply cannot allow this to continue.
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