More than 100 homes in Timperley were flooded on New Year's Day, prompting criticism of the Environment Agency for their handling of the situation. Coun Shaun Ennis, a local representative, argues that years of warnings about the flood risk have been ignored and that the shelving of a flood mitigation scheme was a 'huge mistake'.
Environment Agency bosses have come under fire after more than 100 homes - as well as many streets - in Timperley were inundated in the New Year’s Day floods. A councillor who represents the area says warnings to the authorities over the flood risk to the area have been ‘like banging your head against a brick wall’. Coun Shaun Ennis said the shelving last summer of a multi-million pound flood mitigation scheme by the Environment Agency for the Timperley area was ‘a huge mistake’.
The councillor, who leads the Liberal Democrat group on Trafford council, said that although the deluge which began on New Year’s Eve was an ‘act of God’, much of the flooding which affected Timperley was ‘predictable’. Yesterday, Environment Agency bosses said flood defences worked 'as expected' during the deluge. A spokesperson said the agency had been 'working around the clock over the New Year' in order to operate the defences and assist communities. But Coun Ennis said flooding once again decimated the Timperley area. “The side of Timperley most vulnerable to flooding is the Beech Field area, which was badly flooded in January 2021,” he said. “It has threatened properties in that area every year since then it’s been touch and go once or twice, but this year that’s been the case four times. This is the fifth time.” He said homes in Fairbourne Drive, Heyes Lane and Halton Drive were all affected as Fairywell Brook - a notorious source of flooding locally - burst its banks. Other areas not normally vulnerable included Tannery Road and Brentwood Avenue in Broadheath and on Woodlands Parkway near the Navigation Metrolink tram stop as well as Shaftesbury Avenue. Coun Ennis added: “The problem occurs when the brook bursts its banks onto Beech Field playing fields. That happened within the space of an hour. There was nothing you could do. “I was walking along the roads in the rain at 4am and the drains were working, but within half an hour, I was wading through knee-deep wate
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