Flooding Update
Update from the Resilience Group May 2021
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Update February 2021 from the Flood Group
Since the devastating floods in November 2019 and February 2020, a group of residents got together to try
and do something to improve the situation. The ‘Appleby Magna Resilience Group’ was formed, and is now
established with 4 people (2 of whom had to leave their homes due to flooding in 19/20). 1 of the group is a
councillor on the Parish Council, so they are affiliated and connected to the work that the Parish Council do,
which is in everyone’s interests. Despite everyone having full-time ‘day’ jobs, they are all actively involved in
making things better for the village, and supporting Appleby Magna residents with the impact of flooding.
Since the devastating floods in November 2019 and February 2020, a group of residents got together to try
and do something to improve the situation. The ‘Appleby Magna Resilience Group’ was formed, and is now
established with 4 people (2 of whom had to leave their homes due to flooding in 19/20). 1 of the group is a
councillor on the Parish Council, so they are affiliated and connected to the work that the Parish Council do,
which is in everyone’s interests. Despite everyone having full-time ‘day’ jobs, they are all actively involved in
making things better for the village, and supporting Appleby Magna residents with the impact of flooding.
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NWLDC supply of sandbags We keep a limited number of sandbags to help protect houses and critical council infrastructure. We do not supply sandbags to protect other property such as gardens/ garages/ outbuildings.
We keep these sandbags for homeowners to collect at our Linden Way depot off Ashby Road in Coalville (postcode LE67 3JY) - between 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays and weekends).
Please contact Customer Services on 01530 454545 to make arrangements for collection of sandbags. Our phones are open between 8.45am and 5pm (except on Thursday when we open at 9.30am). Our out of hours number is 01530 454789.
Holding the sandbags at our council site allows us to triage our sandbags using our limited staffing resources to those that are either most vulnerable or at the highest risk of flood waters entering their property at any given time – based on local intelligence and advice from partners such as the Environment Agency and the Met Office.
Periods of heavy rain will usually lead to flood warnings at numerous locations in the district at any one time. Asking residents to collect sandbags from us allows us to be responsive to a wider need rather than focusing our attention on just one or two locations.
In exceptional circumstances we do usually deliver sandbags to locations at imminent risk of flooding, but Covid-19 restrictions currently impede our ability to effectively resource this in a way that would be safe for staff and residents.
Asking residents to collect sandbags allows us to establish a controlled area for collection where no staff or residents are put at risk.
More flood advice is available on the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Resilience Forum website
We keep these sandbags for homeowners to collect at our Linden Way depot off Ashby Road in Coalville (postcode LE67 3JY) - between 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays and weekends).
Please contact Customer Services on 01530 454545 to make arrangements for collection of sandbags. Our phones are open between 8.45am and 5pm (except on Thursday when we open at 9.30am). Our out of hours number is 01530 454789.
Holding the sandbags at our council site allows us to triage our sandbags using our limited staffing resources to those that are either most vulnerable or at the highest risk of flood waters entering their property at any given time – based on local intelligence and advice from partners such as the Environment Agency and the Met Office.
Periods of heavy rain will usually lead to flood warnings at numerous locations in the district at any one time. Asking residents to collect sandbags from us allows us to be responsive to a wider need rather than focusing our attention on just one or two locations.
In exceptional circumstances we do usually deliver sandbags to locations at imminent risk of flooding, but Covid-19 restrictions currently impede our ability to effectively resource this in a way that would be safe for staff and residents.
Asking residents to collect sandbags allows us to establish a controlled area for collection where no staff or residents are put at risk.
More flood advice is available on the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Resilience Forum website
