Warning signs welcomed at notorious flood-hit road

WARNING SIGNS have gone up at a notorious flooding blackspot a year after two motorists became stranded.

Toby Hosker and Hannah Stirk had to be rescued from their car after they attempted to drive through Calder View at Lower Hopton in Mirfield on Easter Monday 2018. Now Sheffieldbased developer Gleeson Homes, which took over the nearby Calder View housing estate in 2017, have installed no entry signs on the road.

The company says a depth gauge has also arrived on site.

Calder View is close to the River Calder and floods whenever there is heavy rain for a long period. When Mr Hosker and Miss Stirk became trapped they had to climb out of their Ford Ka via the boot.

The couple’s car became stranded in several feet of water in the dark when the road became flooded following heavy rainfall. They said they could not see the depth of the water until it was too late.

In March this year the flood waters were so high that they almost covered another car.

Mirfield councillor Martyn Bolt welcomed Gleeson Homes’ involvement. But he encouraged the firm to take action over the flooding issue.

A Gleeson Homes spokesman said: “The main road floods from time to time as it has done for many years. We have provided an alternative route for when this happens.”