{"id":481210,"date":"2026-03-17T23:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481210\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:53:16","slug":"funding-of-46m-to-help-improve-flood-resilience-in-south-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481210\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding of \u00a346m to help improve flood resilience in South West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Environment Minister Emma Reynolds said the funding would better protect homes and businesses from the risk of flooding from rivers, the sea, ground and surface water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The funding will support flood defences in Cornwall, including: Bude, St Ives, Portreath and Helston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Devon, Axminster, Exeter, Paignton and Powderham will benefit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reynolds said: &#8220;All of this is helping to make them more resilient to flooding, but I do acknowledge how difficult the winter has been.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Devon MP Caroline Voaden welcomed the \u00a3101,000 of funding given for defence against tidal flooding in Kingsbridge, although she said it would cost more than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Liberal Democrat said she was &#8220;deeply disappointed&#8221; Torcross and Beesands were not granted funding after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr57yd2z6vjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the A379 was washed away by storms<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I have repeatedly made clear to ministers that the survival of these villages depends on restoring their coastal defences before another winter of storms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You would be hard pressed to find a crisis more fitting to this funding&#8217;s aim of protecting homes and businesses from the devastating impact of flooding and coastal erosion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Minister Emma Reynolds said the funding would better protect homes and businesses from the risk of flooding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481210","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=481210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}