FARMER John Price will face no further action from the Forestry Commission for felling trees as part of his work on the river Lugg. Btu the farmer is still under investigation by Natural England and the Environment Agency into the work he had completed on the riverbank of the river Lugg. A Forestry Commission spokesperson said permission was granted only for the felling of trees. “Following an investigation we can confirm that the felling operations were undertaken with the authority of an approved conditional felling licence and no further action is to be taken in respect of the felling at this time, the commission said.
Last winter our land was flooded but not the house. When we wished to build an extension we were not even allowed to apply for planning permission until we had an environmental survey carried out. The building was put up with a floor level 600 millimetres above ground level to avoid flooding, but we were not allowed to replace the ancient septic tank with a modern bio-digester as this might add phosphates to the river.
RELATED NEWS: We have also planted 1,500 trees and hedging plants to help with water absorption. I think it is pretty well established that dredging and straightening rivers only moves your flooding problems downriver onto others, and the correct action is to increase the meanders of the river and plant more trees on the banks to absorb run-off.
A prominent Herefordshire farmer has found himself at the centre of a media storm for carrying out maintenance work on the River Lugg. For the past month,
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