on a regular basis want to share the lessons they ve learned to help others. environment correspondent sally bowman reports. 22 year old studentjamie is one of the foot soldiers in the fight against flooding. this is where your bolts will go. today, the volunteer from the flood action group is visiting this 88 year old woman to offer advice and reassurance. well, i was flooded in 2011 and i vowed i could never cope with it again. it is an awful experience and you just cannot see the end of it. and then of course unexpectedly last year it happened again. but this time, she had the flood action group and her buddy, jamie. you just know that sometimes, without a big community effort, a lot of these houses would get severely damaged. waves of flooding over the past 1a years been the leaders here have had to become experts in what works and what does not. what we have got here is 150 sandbags, on pallets, - which were given to us by the county councih we have got two pallets - here and we
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Picture: Google Streetview Outline plans for up to 100 new homes in Seaton are set to be decided on next week. Allerdale s development panel will next Tuesday decide whether to grant outline planning permission for the construction of up to 100 new homes on land to the east of Causeway Road in Seaton. Being an application for outline permission, submitted by trustees of the Copsey Family Trust, further, more detailed plans would have to be approved before construction could begin. However, the granting of outline permission would signal approval in principle of the prospect of up to 100 new homes being built on the site.
FIRE crews have been called out to various incidents involving flooding around North Yorkshire throughout the night. At around 10.30pm, crews were called to Biggin, Selby to attend to water entering a premises. They used a main pump and assisted occupiers with setting up sand bags. At around 10.50pm, crews were on the scene of flooding in a premises in Little Fenton, Selby. They used a light portable pump and low strainer to remove the water. At around 11pm, crews were called to Castlegate, Malton to clear flood water from a premises. They used two light portable pumps to do so.