Memorandum submitted by David Royffe (FL
26)
I am a Cheltenham-based chartered engineer.
Due to the recent severe local floods June 2007
and July 2007 that included the Chelt flooding past the front
of the Town Hall, I am very actively campaigning for our theoretical
flood alleviation schemes to be made to work in practice.
My road—Oak Avenue Cheltenham has twice
got very seriously flooded—deluging about ten houses and
threatening my block of flats. There appears to be far too little
drainage capacity for flash-floods off the Battledown Hill behind
our estate and the Chelt river has much too large a flash-flood
flow when heavy rain persists for some hours.
I am in active dialogue with Cheltenham MP and
Cheltenham Borough Council with knowledge on how to very effectively
deal with the problems—including how the barrage could be
of major benefit in this regard.
It is clear to me that the flood alleviation
scheme can be examined, and revised so as to improve our flood
defences to a workable system.
I have surveyed and photographed the floods
as they happened.
David Royffe
Chartered Engineer
August 2007
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