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Flooding fears have led to a call to Allerdale Council to honour the wishes of 500 residents to stop all further development in the village. This comes at the same time that Maryport Town council received the details of the Government’s proposal to loosen planning restriction to make it easier to build homes. Mayor Peter Kendall said the Flimby Flood Group had recently concerns again about flooding issues in the village. After Storm Desmond, which hit Flimby badly, Maryport Town Council asked for a moratorium on all development because of the lack of modern drainage and sewerage systems. This included encouraging 500 residents to send petition letters to Allerdale asking for a halt to development and for the drainage system to be upgraded to prevent further flooding.
Welcome to Corrie that is Coronation Street, Maryport, not Manchester. It would be easy to muddle the two, however, as Coronation Street Maryport appeared in an advertisement in prime-time television this week, sponsoring the popular and long-running soap. The advertisement was for Argos, which has become only the fourth major sponsor in the soap opera’s 60-year history. Gavel Street resident Kimberley Benson watched it all happen. “My mum, Julie Howley, lives in Coronation Street and I can see her house from mine. “We got letters in December asking us to move our cars off the street between 7am and 5pm on day.