Floodplain Housing Put On Hold

This recent BBC Report shows how one council - Reading, has seen sense and decided not to continue with a proposal for housing in the floodplain of their local river in the Kennet Valley Park.

We hope Preston Councillors have seen this report too, and will now think seriously about dropping their ideas for over 4000 houses in the floodplain of the River Ribble, contained as part of their 'Riverworks' proposals, along with the crazy idea of putting a barrage across the Ribble, which would starve the Estuary of nutrient rich silts, on which the birdlife of the Estuary depends.