Monday 10 June 2013

It doesn’t happen often, but your councillors are rendered speechless by the latest County Council response about the London Road puddles (see reply in full below).

Following your question to the above meeting regarding drainage issues on London Road and your additional query regarding the area outside of Barclays Bank.

We have carried out surveys in the area and do not believe that the problem lies with the drainage system.  We are going to have a level survey carried out and assessed to see if the cause of the occasional problem is the cross section of the area.  We have viewed photographs after some heavy rainfall and the water appears to be draining away and we have not recently received many complaints about this area at present.  We will monitor the situation and evaluate after the next downpour.  Meanwhile, if anyone has photographs we would be happy to see the extent of the issue.

Clearly the County Council thinks the surface water flooding has nothing to do with the drains being on top of a concave camber so that water has to flow uphill to drain away.

If you have any more photos of this area of Headington when it’s underwater, please send them to us and we will be more than pleased to pass them on.