{"id":58284,"date":"2025-08-11T03:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58284\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:15:17","slug":"chelsea-garden-promoting-flood-resilience-opens-in-wallingford-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58284\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea garden promoting flood resilience opens in Wallingford"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new garden promoting flood resilience measures using nature-based solutions has opened.<\/p>\n

The project at Howbery Business Park in Wallingford gives free public access to a blueprint for how outdoor spaces can help reduce flood risk.<\/p>\n

Features include a pond that doubles as a sump to collect water and a smart rainwater tank that allows remotely controlled draining ahead of predicted rainfall.<\/p>\n

It builds on the silver medal-winning Flood Resilience Garden that debuted at Chelsea Flower Show<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

The garden’s designer Ed Barsley, of the Environmental Design Studio, said: “With this garden, we wanted to demonstrate that flood resilient design needn’t be a compromise.<\/p>\n

“You can create spaces that are both beautiful and enriching, whatever the weather.”<\/p>\n

He added that, in making the garden permanent, “we’ve worked hard to ensure it can endure and thrive for decades to come”.<\/p>\n

The garden is part of a resilience campaign by Flood Re – a joint initiative between the government and insurers to make flood insurance cover for households more affordable.<\/p>\n

Kelly Ostler-Coyle, of Flood Re, said: “We’re thrilled that the flood-resilient garden now has a permanent home, open and accessible to the wider public.<\/p>\n

“Outdoor spaces like this are vital in providing a natural first line of defence against flooding.<\/p>\n

“This garden demonstrates how thoughtful choices in plants and landscape design can offer both aesthetic value and tangible protection – helping to minimise physical damage and emotional strain when floods occur.”<\/p>\n

Andy Brown, joint chief executive at HR Wallingford – which owns the site – said the garden “looks magnificent”.<\/p>\n

“I am sure [it] will inspire everyone who visits, as well as providing a tranquil space for those that work here,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new garden promoting flood resilience measures using nature-based solutions has opened. The project at Howbery Business Park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-58284","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\/58284","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=58284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}