{"id":327406,"date":"2025-12-21T01:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327406\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:54:13","slug":"several-york-flood-defences-deemed-below-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327406\/","title":{"rendered":"Several York flood defences deemed below standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The analysis comes after the six named storms which hit the UK last winter, including Bert and Connall, which led to severe flooding in parts of England in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office has also stated that winters were getting wetter, with six of the 10 wettest recorded half-winters between October and March happening since 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Floods Minister Emma Hardy said the government had redirected \u00a3108m into repairs and the maintenance of defences nationally, and would spend \u00a310.5bn in the next decade, including building new ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA&#8217;s repair programme for defences it directly manages remains ongoing after it redirected \u00a372m to maintaining flood assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An EA spokesperson said protecting communities was more important as climate change brought more extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If the performance of an asset is reduced, then immediate action is taken to ensure that flood risk continues to be effectively managed until the asset is fully repaired or replaced,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The analysis comes after the six named storms which hit the UK last winter, including Bert and Connall,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327406","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\/327406","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=327406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}