No one should complain about flooding as the houses that are being built are on what has been called the water meadows.
There is a reason for this area being called ‘water meadows’ which has sluice gates to manage the water levels.
The reason the by-pass for Salisbury was scuppered (thanks to the environmentalists – where are they now?) was because a bridge would go across the meadows that would ruin the view and cause havoc with nature. Well, look what’s happening now…
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It is only a question of time when the cathedral will be flooded and then it will be closed. Water has to go somewhere.
There’s no point in creating underground pumping systems unless the water is pumped out to sea, which means Bournemouth or Christchurch.
You only have to go down to Bournemouth from Salisbury and you are going through very low-lying ground which, as history proves, floods almost every year, so more water going down there will create problems further downstream.
The powers that be need to look beyond the end of their noses and think about the future and not the present day.
Dear oh dear, don’t people, or the people in authority who are supposed to look after the environment etc, learn? No, obviously not.
Jenny GeeWinterslow
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