Hadnall Residents Preparing for Flooding Meeting

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00:00Yeah, I'm Paul Cawthorn, the vicar of Hadnall, just five minutes north of Shrewsbury and Hadnall

00:06is a groundwater flood plain, although the Environment Agency and Shropshire Council

00:11don't seem to realise that yet. As the local villagers we're having to come to terms with

00:20the difficulties here without really seeming to get much accountability from the authorities.

00:27The people down this lane sometimes can't get out for days, including pensioners,

00:34the people in the main part of the village are having sewage upwelling in their toilets,

00:40it looks like the sewage station, there's some kind of a problem that people don't,

00:46Severn Trent haven't worked out yet and everyone's passing the buck.

00:51How long has it been going on for?

00:52It's been going on for years, I've been here six years and it's been a problem every year.

00:57So when some of the officials say it's a new problem that's not actually true,

01:03but the new estate that's been built by Galliers, now owned by Cameron Homes,

01:11and it seems like Cameron Homes don't want to take responsibility for the sewage problems that

01:16my parishioners are having, so I'm basically going to up the profile to get until we get

01:22some accountability. Yeah on the 15th of January at the village hall 7pm, all welcome, I know

01:29there's going to be a lot of villagers there, I just wonder whether Severn Trent, the council

01:35and Cameron Homes will actually dare to turn up or will they be too scared of having to answer

01:40straight questions. If they do turn up people will respect that and it'll be a nice friendly meeting,

01:47if they don't turn up I think there'll be quite a lot of community anger to be honest.

01:51Well it's got to be resolved, you know we've got children who can't use their downstairs

01:56toilets in the village, I wonder what the value of the houses is, I think there's an underlying

02:03issue clearly about the sewage station at Hadnall and I wish Severn Trent would come clean about what

02:09the problem is. It may be that it's purely and simply a capacity issue, you know are the pipes

02:16wide enough? Is the pump that's supposed to pull all the sewage up the hill to Monkmore doing its

02:21job properly? I believe the pipes that go up the hill are over 50 years old, so are there cracks

02:28in the pipes meaning that the sewage isn't being pulled away from Hadnall quick enough? There's a

02:34lot of unanswered questions and we're all just fed up of being fobbed off and everybody, all the

02:39officials telling us it's another organisation's responsibility rather than people getting in here

02:44and doing some proper analysis.