Despite being on a main road, at the bottom of a dip in a location prone to flooding, the Bek Road traffic light drainage gullies are currently only down for clearing every TWO YEARS. Other drains in the COunty are cleaned out every three months.

I have now asked the Head of Technical Services to look into increasing the frequency of cleaning of these drains to make sure we do not get flooding at this location again.

I am more and more convinced that at least one of these drains hadn’t been touched for donkeys years.

It raises serious concerns about just how many of our County’s 80,000 gulleys are being cleaned out every two years, or being missed completely.

Please check the drainage guley outside your house or on your street. if it looks blocked please let us know so we can check it out and get action taken.