A Buckingham councillor has criticised the Environmental Agency nearly six months after heavy rain badly impacted parts of north Buckinghamshire.
On Christmas Eve 2020, areas such as Stony Strafford, Lavendon, Leckhampstead and Buckingham were hit with torrential rain, with the emergency services visiting numerous properties to those who were badly affected.
The floods at Christmas
Would recommend you don’t drive through flood waters. pic.twitter.com/sc3BfjedMD
— Warren Whyte (@WarrenWhyteUK) December 24, 2020
However, nearly six months later, Buckingham councillor Warren Whyte has revealed that he is ‘still chasing for a meeting with the Environmental Agency’.
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Speaking after he was re-elected in the local elections on May 8, he said: “The Christmas Eve floods were terrible.
“I live right next to the flood zone, so I experienced it personally and there is a lot we need to do.
"We need to hold the Environmental Agency to account and right up until yesterday (May 7), I was still chasing for a meeting with the Environmental Agency in Buckingham.
The floods caused a lot of disruption
Tingewick Road and Fishers Field. Inaccessible currently unless you have waders. Just seen @AnglianWater on site so hopefully assessing the situation. pic.twitter.com/6m2GUQa9FH
— Warren Whyte (@WarrenWhyteUK) December 24, 2020
“We have had Anglian Water out to talk about sewage and the impact the floods as had with them and we had a good meeting (at the start of May), with the consultants doing the flood investigations.
"There is a lot happening, but hopefully, we can put a lot of pressure on all the agencies and find some solutions.”
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Between the afternoon of December 23 to the morning of December 24, firefighters were called out to several parts north of the county, where they helped people out of trapped cars, offered advice to those who had been affected as well as helping remove water from houses that were flooded following the downpour of heavy rain.
It is not the first time Mr Whyte has been critical of the EA, as back in January, he believed that they, along with Anglican Water, were ‘late’ in issuing the flooding to residents.
We have approached the Environmental Agency for comment.
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