A PERMANENT flood protection being designed for a village near Malvern is making vital behind-the-scenes progress.
The Severn Stoke Flood Action Group met up with experts from the Environment Agency to discuss progress on the proposals, which will see bunds and flood gates constructed to protect it and the vital A38.
Technical experts carried out survey at the site last year and the community is now ready to move forward with the scheme.
An Environment Agency spokesperson said: “We are working closely with the Flood Action Group and partners to secure funding and develop a scheme that can be taken forward by the community to help defend the village of Severn Stoke.
“We are pleased with the progress that has been made to date and look forward to overcoming the challenges ahead to enable this project to succeed.”
West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin has championed the scheme and has held a series of meetings with the community group, the Environment Agency and the landowners to agree a plan of action.
A formal plan is expected to be published soon.
“I am enormously pleased that the Flood Action Group is working so hard to drive this project forward and grateful for the support which the Environment Agency is putting in to guide them,” said Mrs Baldwin.
“Severn Stoke is one of the two major flood defence projects currently outstanding in West Worcestershire and as this one drives forward, I will continue to lobby for an agreed solution for Tenbury Wells.
“The community has also had offers of free soil from some of the major housing developments and construction projects going on around Worcestershire so the timing is perfect to get the ball rolling.”
