Tonight has been the second of three individual flood meetings which I have helped to arrange for Grove residents affected by last July's floods. Last week, we covered the area by The Green and Denchworth Road. Tonight it was the turn of Vale Avenue and Main Street. The County Council's Drainage Engineer came along and was very helpful in explaining current problems and suggesting some improvements to the drainage system. However, Thames Water have got to play their part in this too.
The Vale's Emergency Planning Officer has been giving useful advice to residents about how best to help protect homes in the future, and I took along a range of literature about this for people to take away. Our Letcombe Brook Project Officer has given us an update about the Letcombe Brook and what is being planned for the future. The Environment Agency has now produced the latest flood report on last July and this is available on the EA website.
The last meeting in Grove will be on Friday, so this will be for the largest area for those affected including Cane Lane, Kingfishers, Sharland Close and we hope this will be the start of some action plans that residents can take forward. Feedback from residents so far has been excellent, so I am pleased that everyone's efforts have paid off.
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