| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Lammas Park (Again) - URGENT HEALTH WARNING | |
| Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
| Date/Time: | 04/03/25 16:15:00 |
| I’m not sure Angela or her husband really understand this. Viewing everything through a prism of moral righteousness doesn’t give them much perspective. Lammas and the surrounding area are not at significant flood risk, despite what’s been claimed by the council. A big puddle down at the Northfield Avenue end that evaporates in a few hours isn’t a flood, however you soon it. Even the pictures used on the notices around the works don’t show flooding, but do show the effect of a drain and gully that hadn’t been cleaned out. If one is concerned about flooding one shouldn’t go around cutting down mature trees, in parks and on roads, and not should one pursue a policy of concreting over ever larger areas to throw up very tall tower blocks which put added strain on sewage infrastructure. What you also don’t do is decide to build a huge residential development on Metropolitan Open Land at Gurnell, which is on a flood plain and which the council have planned mitigation that involves just warning residents that their underground car park will be full of water. I wonder what those insurance premiums will be. It would need some biblical scale rainfall to produce the sorts of flooding we are being warned about. Even the very wet winter and spring of 2023/24 didn’t produce such an event in this area. Even when saturated there was no Hortonian overland flow down the streets of Northfields. As for being a lovely addition to the park, well that’s debatable. If it’s not a traditional park pond, but basically a bog it’s not going to be a wonderful asset, particularly next to a children’s playground. It will have, at best, a residual pool of brackish water into which kids and animals will tumble. Meanwhile the useable playing area in the park is reduced further. This was a popular place for games of football, picnics and dog walking, now all pushed into a smaller zone. Oh, and trying to claim vehicle pollutants are a major issue is laughable. The EColi bug is very dangerous and is present now. They close parks elsewhere when it’s found. |