Hello everyone, and I hope you are all safe and well in these incredibly bizarre times. Can't wait to get my Covid vaccination but that is still probably a week or two away, so carry on we have to!

As local residents know only too well it has been very wet this last few weeks, and unfortunately, this has meant that Lashbrook, where Taylor Wimpey want to deposit thousands of litres of surface water has flooded and indeed the area surrounding it has been submerged for maybe 3 or 4 weeks now, and some residents directly impacted with damage.

Doesn't it just make you want to get hold of some people and shake them, how can they possibly think that they can divert 15 acres plus its hinterland of accumulated surface water and just pump it down the road and forget about it. It beggars belief that this can happen, and worse still that our very expensive public servants stand by and watch it happen. its like a car crash in slow motion.......you can see it and you absolutely know its going to happen, and then finally metal hits metal or water hits more water!

I've sent a good number of photographs to SODC to put matters on the record, although it's inconceivable to me that one should need to do this as it is so well known.....and yet the drainage and flood people just seem to ignore it and put their head in the sand....... someone's 'expert' has said it will be alright.....so that's fine ill just take their word for it.....not that they're biased of course, nor have a vested interest....of course not!

The WWW.ShiplakeVillages.com web site will shortly go live with a new large feature about the work of TFAG, so do please go along and have a look at where things have got to. There will also be an update in place with the latest news in the next few days, and then we are meeting Taylor Wimpey online on 16 February to hear what they have to say having gone away to review their entire drainage strategy before Xmas..... let's hope they have good things to say.

I've added some video footage taken by local residents over the last couple of weeks, which illustrates the nature of the problem and demonstrates how frequently it occurs. This is not one in 100 years stuff, its most years!

Many thanks all for your support and I am confident our actions have really highlighted this problem and we will get a good outcome.

PeterB @ TFAG