Grant for flood walls to protect homes and businesses in Ironbridge

Shropshire Star

Permanent flood defences are to be installed to protect homes and businesses in Ironbridge Gorge. Telford & Wrekin Council has been awarded £1.2million to help protect properties at 'most risk' of flooding, which will be spent over the next three years.

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00:00For the last few years the community down here in Ironridge Gorge has been at the mercy of the

00:04River Severn with more frequent and more severe flooding. The temporary barriers along the

00:09wharfage do a fantastic job of protecting those businesses and homes along the wharfage but so

00:14many properties are left undefended from the flooding that we've experienced recently.

00:19Since the major flooding in 2020 we've been lobbying government for more investment to

00:23help protect all those other properties. Thankfully we've now been awarded 1.2 million

00:28pounds and that will help protect around 40 properties. Now whilst this isn't an

00:32insubstantial amount of money we know that it's not quite enough to fully protect all

00:36of the properties at risk of flooding. So we're working with the Environment Agency

00:39to look at their flood modelling data, looking at all of our own historical records and also

00:44talking to those communities that are most affected by flooding so that we can get the

00:48best value out of this funding and have the most impact. We'll also be working with the

00:52new government to ensure we get more investment to address flooding across the whole of Telford

00:56and Reikin as we continue to protect, care and invest to create a better borough.

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