Dennis said the Environment Agency had identified the area as one with a “very high risk area of surface water flooding”.
“We are looking again at the issues to see what we can do to try and minimise or alleviate some of the issues,” she added.
Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, said it had been “one of the wettest Januarys on record”.
“This is only going to get worse as our climate continues to change, so we’re predicting that the winters are going to get wetter – so, wetter that what they are at the moment, and the summers are going to get drier,” she explained.