as council ‘cannot afford’ its part to protect riverside villages.
A petition, which has garnered over 1,500 signatures, was heard at a full council meeting on April 27, urging the council to ‘honour its commitment’ by funding their part of the River Thames Scheme (RTS).
The £640 million project was set up with three channels to protect 15,000 homes from Datchet to Teddington from flooding – but channel one, which protects Datchet to Bells Weir, will not be progressed.
The chair of Wraysbury Parish Council (WPC) and the petitioner Margaret Lenton, who spoke on behalf of Old Windsor, Datchet, and Horton Parish Councils, said WPC is ‘convinced’ there are no alternative schemes to protect the villages from devastating floods such as the one in 2014.