{"id":560913,"date":"2026-05-01T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:16:08","slug":"plans-to-improve-protection-after-homes-flooded-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560913\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to improve protection after homes flooded in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, councillor Richard Austin said: &#8220;One very disappointing aspect of the investigation is that it identified that the wall where the overtopping occurred was a serious area of risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In fact, there was some serious cracking in that wall. That was identified in June, six months before the flood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, the IDB&#8217;s chief executive Daniel Withnall said the wall was inspected before winter and a bid was put in for repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t meet the timings to put that scheme on the bid list, if you like, for that year,&#8221; he told the meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We did put it in the following year and actually some money was spent last year to fill some of those cracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Withnall added that the IDB was working to attract &#8220;further funding to Boston&#8221; in a bid to future-proof the area&#8217;s flood defences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, councillor Richard Austin said: &#8220;One very disappointing aspect of the investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560913","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\/560913","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=560913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}