Bristol City's new stadium site is flood risk
If the new Bristol City football stadium is built in Ashton Vale, residents of low-lying areas of Ashton and Bedminster may have more to worry about than whether a store or housing replaces City's present ground.
Environmental Agency maps show that Ashton Vale, the site of the new stadium, is already deemed to be at risk from flood. In addition to the new stadium the government is planning to build a town the size of Clevedon at Yanley and on the western slopes of Dundry.
I sincerely hope that if all these proposed developments go ahead, Bristol City, Tesco and nearby households do not find themselves one day wading through several feet of water.
Steve Wright
Bristol
Comments
by Annette Hennessy, Portishead
Thursday, October 29 2009, 6:27PM
“Here in Portishead, developers have built thousands of new houses and apartments on natural drainage land just a stone's throw from the sea wharf, namely the Marina and Village Quarter, aka The Ashlands. Residents on previously developed low lying land in the Vale (close to the Village Quarter) had to literally pump out the water from their gardens when they first occupied their homes. Nobody seemed concerned about this. The only winners are the insurance companies and developers. The threat of the 100 year tide will always loom over the new areas and if it comes, the improved sea wall will be unlikely to sustain the floodwater. But that is the future and developers are only interested in making money in the present.”