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Published on: 22/01/2019 07:25 AMReported by: rogerblaxall
Reader's letter from Burscough Flooding Group
In response to last week’s front page in the Champion 'Development Director’s Thumbs-up for Victoria Park Homes Plan', Burscough flooding group objects to the Victoria Park development because it's certain it will cause additional flooding in Crabtree Lane, where any increase is likely to cause homes to become uninhabitable.
Taken at face value, WLBC’s reassurance that the surface water from the Victoria Park housing development won’t exceed that at present was reassuring. However, what WLBC omitted to say is that whilst the surface water flow from the site isn’t going to increase, the overall volume will be increased and all of the flow will be diverted from United Utilities foul sewer, where it goes currently, into a local watercourse.
That considerable extra flow will add to the already serious flooding in Crabtree Lane at a maximum rate of 25 tonnes/hour.
It's hard to understand the odd way WLBC operates - previously when they made similar bad decisions they’ve argued there was no evidence of flooding and/or they weren't responsible for offsite issues. Since then BFG collected flooding evidence from residents and three consultant's reports on Burscough’s flooding problems have been published.
Despite all this newly available evidence of widespread flooding in Burscough WLBC still pass developments which add to Burscough's flooding problems.
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