West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin has welcomed the news that the Government will be spending more than £5 billion improving flood defences across the country.
After particularly bad floods in the summer of 2007, Harriett started campaigns to build more flood defences in the West Worcestershire area.
Since 2010, seven new flood defence schemes have been built with the help of the Environment Agency. Those schemes are in Uckinghall, Pershore, Powick and Kempsey, with two schemes in Upton-upon-Severn. The seventh, a community-based scheme, is in Callow End.
Harriett continues to campaign for flood defence schemes at Severn Stoke and Tenbury Wells.
The Severn Stoke scheme is progressing well and has reached the planning permission stage.
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In June 2020, Harriett led a debate in the House of Commons on the flood defences for Tenbury Wells.
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Harriett Baldwin secures meeting with Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to discuss flood defence schemes drafted by the Environment Agency for Tenbury Wells and Severn Stoke.