Senior government officials will visit Shropshire later this year to hear the case for an extra £500 million in funding to tackle flooding problems.
SHREWS COPYRIGHT MNA MEDIA TIM THURSFIELD 23/02/22.The garden of Coton Manor flats, Shrewsbury, which is again flooded..
Mr Barrow is also chairman of the River Severn Partnership, which was formed to tackle problems relating to the 180-mile river in its entirety. Officials from the Treasury and the Department for the Environment have now agreed to visit Shrewsbury for further talks in September.Mr Kawczynski said he considered flooding to be biggest barrier to Shrewsbury's economic development.
But more importantly, he said, there needed to be a plan to tackle flooding problems collectively across the River Severn as a whole.Mr Kawczynski said:"In the past, the response has been localised schemes which just push the problem downstream and leave it for someone else to deal with.
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