Heavy rain left a key road junction flooded in Brighton yesterday (Monday 20 October).<\/p>\n
And today Brighton and Hove City Council has called on Southern Water to take urgent action after the A23 flooded at Preston Circus.<\/p>\n
Labour councillor Trevor Muten, the council\u2019s cabinet member for transport and city infrastructure, said: \u201cIt was devastating to see the flooding in Preston Circus following yesterday\u2019s heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know this seriously impacts residents and businesses, both emotionally and financially.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving spoken with council officers, we carried out major gully clearing in the area in July. They were inspected and cleared again three weeks ago ahead of Storm Amy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re confident the gullies were operating as they should but we\u2019ll continue to review our drainage cleaning policy to ensure resources are directed to the most critical locations.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, this area connects to Southern Water\u2019s sewer system which is likely to have been running at full capacity, meaning water wasn\u2019t able to drain away effectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be meeting with Southern Water this week, calling on them again to work collaboratively with the council on a strategic approach to urgently fix the problems which have caused our residents so much distress and frustration for several years now.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s crucial Brighton and Hove has an infrastructure which is fit for purpose and able to cope with the growing number of severe weather incidents being caused by climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Old Village, in Portslade, was also among the areas to have flooded yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain left a key road junction flooded in Brighton yesterday (Monday 20 October). And today Brighton and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-219485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}