the world has gone mad

[renewablejohn]

Dont know whether anybody has been following events on the River Lugg.

The Environment Agency has failed to maintain a section of the river Lugg to such an extent that one arch of a 3 arch bridge they allowed to silt up so much that every time there was a heavy downpour houses in the nearby village used to flood. The Parish council requested the farmer who owns the land upto the bridge to use his Riparian land rights to clear the blockage and alleviate the problem of flooding.
Said farmer does an absolute cracking job and restores the river bank only to be taken to court by the Environment Agency for showing up just how useless the Environment Agency are at doing the job.
The court orders the farmer to be imprisioned for 12 months and fined 600.000 pounds with a further 650,000 pounds costs.

Why do we never see the water companies on trial for putting raw sewage down our rivers. Obviously the Enviroment Agency have a blind eye

[MoSTiE]

'Tin foil hat fabricated and placed on head' - so they can nudge their climate change agenda BS along the road a bit every time it floods

[Mr Gus]

Well he certainly has history, which clouds the issue further.
& in all honesty I'd like to see what the local council did, asked, & ran past the EA, because he flattened it, also a SSSI area.

[renewablejohn]

Well he certainly has history, which clouds the issue further.
& in all honesty I'd like to see what the local council did, asked, & ran past the EA, because he flattened it, also a SSSI area.

In what way does it cloud the issue. Either your a Riparian landowner with a duty to repair and maintain your river frontage in which case he is only carrying out his ancient common law rights or his Riparian rights have been transferred to the Environment Agency who are then in default for mot maintaining the integrity and flow of the river. You cannot say the silting up of one arch of a 3 arch bridge is an overnight occurrence its neglect over a period of time.

[nowty]

It’s not quite so clear cut, make up your own minds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... r-65339969

[Mr Gus]

John, hardly anyone outside your area knows riparian, freeman of " x " more likely but not as a certainty.


Laws blur, esp where council tax & the queens failure to acknowledge ancient aspects of law required by x no of men etc means we all pay the damn thing.

What ancient laws are verified as being valid, court agreed modern rights here??

He flattened the hell out of the place,

i'll ask to see council backing as to the work which, to repeat would require notifiction at the very least as one governing body to another.

[dan_b]

The before and after photos in the BBC article are quite stark let’s be honest.

He literally destroyed the river and the surrounding area

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... r-65339969

[Fintray]

Sounds like he got just what he deserved.

[Joeboy]

Such arrogance.

[renewablejohn]

Such arrogance.

What from the EA and Natural England. Maybe people should get the 'facts' right before believing the biased 'facts' put forward by the BBC showing two pictures unrelated. The second one just after the work had been completed, Has the BBC run out of money to send a reporter to go back and get an up to date picture of the good job which was made of the river restoration and desilting and how well nature has recovered given the TLC to aid recovery. No lets just ignore the facts that the villagers who kept on being flooded because EA could not get around to unblock one arch of a three arch bridge went to the Parish council for action to stop the flooding. The Parish council got no joy from the EA to carry out the work so approached the Ripirian owner to carry out the duty of a Ripirian owner in maintaining the river bank and what a cracking good job they made of it with obviously a very skilled excavator driver. Since the work has been completed there has been no more flooding and the residents are extremely grateful. Just a shame it was not the EA in the dock for not doing the wotk in the first place with compensation for all those suffering flood damage.