FARMERS and householders are today being urged to wake up to controversial plans that could lead to their properties being swamped with floodwater.

Objectors say it is not only East Yorkshire cliff-edge cottages that are threatened by the Environment Agency’s proposed abandonment of centuries-old coastal defences.

The Humber Flood Risk Management Strategy, coupled with a likely rise in sea levels, will mean thousands of acres of farmland and will be flooded regularly by the sea within 40 years. (more…)

YORKSHIRE has yet to wake up to the threat of the Humber Flood Risk Strategy, according to National Farmers’ Union secretary for Holderness Ed Davey.

He says farmers need to realise that it is not only cliff-edge cottages which are threatened by the Environment Agency’s proposed abandonment of coastal defences.

The strategy, combined with the likely rise in sea level, will mean thousands of hectares of farmland being flooded by the sea on a regular basis within 40 years – and many more could be hit by knock-on effects. (more…)