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- 8 June 2012 07:39177031Many thanks to DDC for the following....
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NEW FLOOD PROTECTION WORKS HELPS HOUSEHOLDERS
A range of flood protection works has been carried out to help householders in Dover following grant funding of more than £110,000 from the Environment Agency to protect properties in the area for the future.
The funding was awarded following work on a Surface Water Management Plan, which has been prepared for Kent County Council in partnership with Dover District Council and others, including Southern Water and the Environment Agency.
The plan focuses primarily on the surface water flood risk in the Dover Town area, and was funded by DEFRA. As part of work on the plan, a number of properties were found to be eligible for grants for flood protection, and KCC and DDC applied for the funding.
DDC has delivered the grant, with support from KCC, and the scheme included properties in Maison Dieu Road, The Paddock, East Street and Folkestone Road. Works included raising the threshold to properties, installing flood guards, new sealed doors, brick walls, self-closing airbricks and non-return valves to sewer drainage, designed to prevent flooding from surface water as well as the river.
Cllr Nigel Collor, DDC Cabinet Member for Access and Property Management said: "This is excellent news, and a fine example of partnership working with a number of organisations, as well as householders in Dover, which has meant partners have been able to get this work completed to help protect properties for the future."
KCC's Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Waste, Bryan Sweetland, said:
"I am delighted that these homes will enjoy a high level of flood protection following close co-operation between the parties involved. Dover is the first area in Kent to receive this work since we took on responsibility for promoting an understanding of the risks around surface water flooding and the problems it can cause."
For more information about KCC's new flood role and other Surface Water Management Plans, please visit the KCC website at www.kent.gov.uk/flooding
- ends -email: dover7@msn.com - 8 June 2012 07:45177032Mention Nigel once and up he pops again...
Here he is involved in this latest scheme which is of great benefit to houses in the areas mentioned. Flooding is obviously a very nasty prospect for some householders..with all those unsanitary unsightly objects that float in on the tide as it were. So its good to see this kind of help. Well done that man!
email: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
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8 June 2012 08:05177039will this help the folkestone road?ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 8 June 2012 09:13177046good question keith, i remember the basement flats being flooded a few years back.
the good news is that our proposed state of the art hospital can now be built in maisin dieu road. - Keith Sansum1
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8 June 2012 11:37177064oh dear howard
now that one again lolALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 8 June 2012 11:42177067Im afraid I dont myself have any further info other than that contained in the press release there, but as Folkestone Road is mentioned in it...
"Works included raising the threshold to properties, installing flood guards, new sealed doors, brick walls, self-closing airbricks and non-return valves to sewer drainage, designed to prevent flooding from surface water as well as the river."
..it looks it is getting the appropriate help.email: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
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8 June 2012 11:45177068paulb/howard;
well some of those residens in folkestone road that howard mentions have still not recoverd, so it would be welcome news if they are not flooded in the futureALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 8 June 2012 12:33177072# 4.Two different problems Howard.
Maison Dieu Hospital site is on a ``FLOOD PLAIN``the Masion Dieu homes suffer fom surface water,sewerage return,river
problems
The Hospital Campaign highlighted the flood plain and the surface water flooding/sewerage of the Masion Dieu road
residences.
Dover District Council planners/regeneration manager,planning committee and scutiny committees continued to insist our
Hospital be built on the Masion Dieu road site ??????
The residents of Masion Dieu road joined the Hospital Campaign in the hope they would receive help with their
problems.Eventually a few KCC panners picked up the problem and it is their efforts following the planning application from
Dover District Council to the government inspector rejected the Masion Dieu site for our Hospital that have resulted in this
work being carried out.
The residents sent us letters they had sent to MP,District Council,DDC Councillors including...Cllr Collar but were told there
was nothing that could be done!!!!!
Dover District Council.Planners/regeneration manager,planning committees and Scrutiny committees ignored and denied
there was a flooding problem in Masion Dieu road area for two years and held up the building of our Hospital.
A dossier including documents obtained under FOI Act will be sent to the Local Authority Ombudsman shortly. - 8 June 2012 13:13177078But this is now a satisfactory conclusion for those houses affected by flooding, excellent news indeed
- Keith Sansum1
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8 June 2012 23:02177182not quite collette
we dont know if folkestone road is part of the plan or notALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 9 June 2012 05:50177190Why are you saying that Keith ? The report states Folkestone Road, so Folkestone Road is included - are you being obtuse just for the fun of it ?
Roger - 9 June 2012 09:53177218Dover District Councillors on planning and scutiny committees made many statements during the debates on the suitability
of Masion Dieu Road site for our Hospital.
eg,``All we have to do is clear the drains``and ``I have walked that area for many years and have never seen a puddle two
inches deep``...when evidence existed and was on the Dover District Council web site that the area had been covered in two
`feet` of water and officers had evidence the site was on a ``Flood Plain``
Councillors make such outrageous staements,without knowledge of a subject and on this ocassion the officers did not correct
the committees......and Council policies are determined from these committees!!!!!! - Keith Sansum1
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9 June 2012 16:35177267if its good for folkestone road and saves the flooded basements i welcome itALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 12 October 2012 14:18195541
- 12 October 2012 14:20195542the environment agency were mob handed earlier in dour street.
- 12 October 2012 14:33195546Maybe they should spend time on clearing out the multitude of blocked road drains all over Dover which cause lakes to appear during heavy rain. Buckland Avenue and Barton Road to name two.
Doesn't DDC have a climate change advisor on the council who might enforce these important maintenance items? After all we all know about rising sea levels and it's dangers. - 12 October 2012 17:53195584maybe this is what they came to do?
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12 October 2012 18:53195591no drain clearance then. - Jan Higgins
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12 October 2012 21:32195618I thought they were supposed to be clearing some of the vegetation and reducing the size of some of the islands so that the flow improved when there was heavy rain.
Talking of drains, there are none in my road the rain just runs down the gutters into Frith Road.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 13 October 2012 14:59195704wonder if this is anything to do with the environment agency?
