Hucknall homes benefit from Nottinghamshire County Council's flood prevention measures

Nottinghamshire County Council have implemented Property Flood Resilience (PFR) measures at 48 homes in Hucknall and Tollerton.

The homes in question are now benefitting from improvements which include floodgates, walls and the sealing of brick work.

This forms part of Nottinghamshire County Council's delivery of ambitious flood prevention schemes to protect residents which they claim remains one of their top priorities.

The county council also has five significant schemes totalling £8.3million currently in progress all in an attempt to reduce future flood risk.

Storms and heavy rain over the last two years have caused internal flooding at 909 properties, and in response to this, a package of smaller measures tailored to individual homes has also been developed.

Annie McGovern, a Tollerton resident who has benefited from these type of flood resilience measures, said: "When our home, and those of five of our immediate neighbours were flooded twice within the space of a few months it was a difficult time for all of us.

"Our homes were devastated, furniture ruined, and we lived in a state of constant anxiety worrying about the possibility of heavy rainfall bringing the chance of more flooding our way.

"We are immensely grateful to the county council's flooding team who listened sympathetically to our concerns, offered immediate support, stepped in to investigate the cause of the flooding and then set about devising a plan of action to prevent a repeat of the problem.

"We were kept informed all the way through the process and all of our concerns were listened to patiently and taken into consideration.

"The completed work is of an extremely high quality and we now feel confident that our homes are safe from further flooding in the future."

Further PFR schemes are being developed in parts of the county where homes have been badly affected by significant flood events in the last two years including Ollerton and Jacksdale.

Councillor Neil Clarke MBE, Chairman of the Transport and Environment Committee at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: "I would like to start by recognising the fantastic work of our Flood Risk Management Team for all their work in striving to achieve flood resilient communities.

"When our communities think of how we protect them from flooding, they might think that much of the work is done during the adverse weather conditions, but this is of course only part of the work we do.

"We know that flooding devastates communities, and that is why we are committed to delivering solutions, both big and small, to protect residents and their homes.

"Homes like Annie's have been chosen for these bespoke property flood resilience measures following the significant flood events in November 2019 and February 2020, where many of the same homes were flooded twice.

"These measures are crucial to protecting our communities and are being developed in areas which are not covered by the Government's Flood Protection Grants."