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Flood minister visits Platt Bridge
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13/01/2025
Makerfield MP Josh Simons in Platt Bridge, the scene of floods that happened on New Year's Day, as the flooding minister Emma Hardy and representatives of Environment Agency, visit the area around Templeton Road, Platt Bridge.
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I'm Josh Simons, I'm the Member of Parliament for Makerfield and we're here today in the
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centre of Platt Bridge on Templeton Road that was badly flooded on New Year's Eve and New
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Year's Day. And I've been here after I invited the Minister for Flooding, Emma Hardy, to
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come and look at the damage that the flooding did and demonstrate that the government is
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listening and that it understands the scale of investment required to make sure that in
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the long term this does not happen again. At the end of the day, the scale of investment
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required to make sure that this doesn't happen again means that the major project, the Environment
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Agency, have been analysing and thinking about that needs to be delivered in full. That is
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the only thing at the end of the day that will protect my constituents who live on this
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road and all around the centre of Platt Bridge, but also will protect residents in Hindley
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and right along the path of the investment project and that's what I'll be working with
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the government to see over the next few days and weeks.
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So the more I've learned about what causes flooding, the more complicated I've realised
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that it is. So if only it were as simple as one wall. What the flood defence project that's
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required needs to do is it needs to install storage right away along, so that means storage
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in Aspel, it means storage in Low Hall and it also needs to include walls and flood defences
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along the course of the river and it all needs to be integrated. They've got to think carefully
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about where the water will flow. Now if that major project gets delivered, it will protect
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not only current residents, my constituents in Hindley and also here in Platt Bridge,
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it will also help to protect potential future developments in the South Hindley site that
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is in the Greater Manchester Strategic Framework. It cannot take as long as some have said that
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it might take is the bottom line and you know I need to do, I'm committed to trying to do
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two things. First is to make sure that funding gets delivered so that we actually get the
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project and that is not guaranteed at this point. It's important to underscore that.
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The Minister today announced £2.4 billion investment in flood defences across the North
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West. My job is to make sure that we locally benefit from that investment. So that's the
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first thing is to get the investment and the second thing is to make sure that the project
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happens in a way that residents will feel as fast as possible.
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