With the aid of display boards showing the history of housebuilding, together with historic local water flows, Councillor Button gave a detailed explanation of the causes of Raglan Gardens Flooding at the AGM. Work to address this situation was explained, including new underground drains on Raglan and Hillcroft, a sump in Raglan Gardens, a raised road table across the road at the Oaklands Avenue end of Raglan Gardens. There will also be a French drain in front of the road table in Oaklands Avenue to further contain the flow down Oaklands Avenue.

Funding for this project is available this year with a timetable for the work to be announced soon.

However as long as front gardens continue to be replaced with hard standing (for which planning permission is required) with inadequate drainage for the water run-off, then more surface water will be pushed onto the roads and into the underground drainage system. Our original drains were not built for this volume as front gardens were originally just that – gardens