People get their say on flooding strategy
A NEW consultation is asking for people’s views on a new strategy which outlines plans to reduce the risk of local flooding.
As a lead local flood authority, Lancashire County Council (LCC) – along with Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool councils – has a range of powers, duties and responsibilities for managing flood risk from certain local sources, and the strategy sets out how they plan to work with communities, and many other organisations responsible for managing flood risk, over the coming years.
The Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for Lancashire 2021-27 sets out a vision for the county becoming a place where people and businesses are well equipped to respond to flooding, understand the challenges involved, and make the most of opportunities to improve things in future.
The document explains the context for flooding in Lancashire, and how the councils’ responsibilities fit in with those of other organisations such as the Environment Agency, and water and sewage companies.
The strategy also outlines the particular local flood risks and challenges facing each part of the county, and how these can be addressed, along with a business plan setting out how and when measures will be put in place to achieve these aims.
An online survey is now available to give people the opportunity to put forward their views on the strategy.
County Coun Albert Atkinson, LCC cabinet member with responsibility for flood risk management, said: “The devastating flooding which Lancashire experienced in 2015, along with the increasing frequency of flood events due to our changing climate, means we are all too aware of the terrible impact which flooding can have.”
VIEW the strategy and complete the online survey at wh1. snapsurveys.com/s. asp?k=161289733744.
MRS Edna McDonald passed away peacefully on Monday, February 22 at the Laurels Nursing Home in Bacup, aged 90.
Born in Islington, North London, she endured the WW2 Blitz of London, and was evacuated to Reading with her cousin Rosie, before returning to London until the end of the war.
Soon after she met her beloved late-husband, Mac, and got married in 1953. Mac and Edna celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in 2018, and received a card from the Queen.
The post war years saw Edna working as a Pitman-trained typist in several solicitors’ offices, before the family moved to Basildon in Essex in 1959 due to Mac’s company relocating. Both Mac and Edna worked in the tobacco industry for Carreras Rothmans until their retirement in 1984.
Edna’s main focus was her family, Mac, and her two boys Stuart and Duncan, and enjoyed gardening and reading. Family holidays were always taken with Mac and her boys in North Devon, with Croyde Bay being their favourite place. Moving to Helmshore in 2017 due to ill health, Edna and Mac enjoyed time with Stuart’s family and visited many Northern attractions, in particular enjoying the Blackpool Tower Ballroom where they reminisced about dancing the quickstep at the Youth Club where they met.
Edna’s funeral was due to take place at Accrington Crematorium on Thursday, March 4 at 10.20am. Family flowers only, with donations to the Alzheimer’s Society c/o funeral director Anthony Johnson Funeral Services, Bacup.