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Local Plan 2040 Draft Plan - Strategy options and draft policies consultation

Representation ID: 4544

Received: 01/09/2021

Respondent: Mrs Kathryn Smith

Representation Summary:

There are 5 watercourses which run from Staploe Parish into the rivers just upstream of St Neots. 10,800 homes at Dennybrook (site 977) would increase the chance of flooding in St Neots. Any flood risk assessment should be updated to allow for this. It should also incorporate cross border effects ie. the assessment shows watercourses going from Staploe parish into St Neots.
Brooks, ditches and some roadways in Honeydon and Staploe regularly flood with heavy rain and as climate change progresses this has been happening more and more frequently

Full text:

There are 5 watercourses which run from Staploe Parish into the rivers just upstream of St Neots. 10,800 homes at Dennybrook (site 977) would increase the chance of flooding in St Neots. Any flood risk assessment should be updated to allow for this. It should also incorporate cross border effects ie. the assessment shows watercourses going from Staploe parish into St Neots.
Brooks, ditches and some roadways in Honeydon and Staploe regularly flood with heavy rain and as climate change progresses this has been happening more and more frequently