After all, even Labour spent £27M protecting Morpeth.Another autumn storm and another flooding event in Rothbury?
as Northumberland County Council neglects the river Coquet’s residents and treats them in a similar fashion to their Government, turning the other cheek towards ‘A1 great north road’ travellers and not speaking out against potential ‘grave robbers’ trying to steal land and projects in Cambois, with the Sunday Times locked into David Cambois Collards ‘strange but true’ activities surrounding multi-million pound public purse projects that may strip Northumberland County Council of the vital cash needed to protect those living along the Coquet Valley from Rothbury to Amble when Labour return to office.
From 2014- 2017 the Labour Party in Northumberland dealt with a number of highly costly flood defences along the Tyne Valley and on the River Wansbeck to save property and people suffering regular damage not only to their homes and businesses but the then Leader of the Labour Group Councillor Grant Davey spoke publicly on more than one occasion about the damage to both personal and community mental health being regularly affected through worry about damage during periods of bad weather.
He managed to present a compelling case to then flood minister Rory Stewart MP which helped secure funding for projects across the County.
The public demonisation of Councillor Davey’s minority all party administration by the Tories brought the Morpeth Mob back into office in May 2017 and completely stopped proper investment in people and property with the Garden Village project which was primed to fund a River Blyth flood project in Ponteland stopped in its tracks and the plans placed on a dusty shelf in the almost empty County Hall in Morpeth with Rothbury folk and the river Coquet having to settle on a new town bridge instead of a complete flood defence scheme and luckily for the residents of this lovely riverside town the Tories left it outside their huge, or is that massive greenbelt scheme to preserve Morpeth in aspic to the detriment of everywhere else.
Regular reports on the loss of many areas and homes to flooding and water level rises by 2030 in Rothbury, Amble, Blyth, both riverside and south beach, Lynemouth, East Chevington, Sleekburn and East Bedlington and areas outside the new flood plains developed during 2015 in the Tyne Valley as well as areas we have already mentioned shows that the next Administration at County Hall needs to spend heavily on flood defences and now that the current administration has blown the Council’s reserves and has been told by officers to slash its capital spend budget they also need to have a compelling argument to speak with the Government in office with both sea and river defences needed urgently.
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