Shrewsbury Road flooded for four months now.
The road between Wilcott and Kinton near Shrewbury has now been flooded for four months, after never previously flooding. Even the road is crumbling away now. Residents have there say.
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00:00 Ed, just fill us in on where we are and what's going on Ed. This isn't the village pond is it?
00:04 Although it has been for the last four months. Just fill us in on what's happening here.
00:08 There is a pond here that's over topping. For 40 years locals have lived here and there's never been
00:12 a flooding issue. There are no council drains in this area to take water away so
00:19 Shropshire Council have been looking for a solution with local landowners to drain across
00:22 the neighbouring field down towards the River Severn. The problem is this road has been flooded
00:28 and not passable by a normal car only by 4x4 since December of this year.
00:33 People trying to access the bus stops are having to walk around through the fields.
00:38 On average about a car a week is losing tyres or being damaged or flooded because the road is
00:46 completely broken up and broken away which means cars are getting stuck on a regular basis.
00:51 Well yeah you've got that difference in level, you've got kind of the sharpness where the road's
00:55 crumbled which can you know damage your tyres as well. And I mean we've had quite dry weather the
00:59 last couple of days haven't we? So yet this isn't going anywhere is it at the minute?
01:04 We've had a very wet year and that has played absolute havoc with the highways across Shropshire
01:07 and I appreciate that. But the last couple of days it's been reasonably dry and this is about
01:12 as low as the water has got for the past four months. And what we want to do is just see a
01:17 solution. Locals want to be able to use the road and be able to get through.
01:22 Yeah as a car coming we'll see how he will perhaps see how he fares.
01:26 If he's locally or knows to stick to the middle he's going to squash me.
01:30 I mean as a you know this is a rural road these are kind of the lifelines for the villages aren't
01:42 they? You know it's an important route yeah? It's an important route through bearing in mind we have
01:47 the A5 Nescliffe bypass which sort of cuts through the parish. So it is the only route on this side
01:54 of the bypass to be able to access things like the school bus, the bus stop, the local shops and
02:00 things like that without going a long way around. We have the defibrillator, we have local nurseries
02:05 as well so in the area so there's businesses operating in this area that find it increasingly
02:10 frustrating when customers or deliveries can't access through because of the the flood water.
02:15 And even the uh child uh blade school yeah they could they used to put the children down here but
02:23 they have to stop there and go back. What's that from the school? Yeah yeah the nursery school.
02:27 Well I mean like you were saying you know 40 years some people have have lived here and not
02:33 seen this flood so there's a few theories as to what might be going on. There is a pond next to
02:38 this road which hasn't caused problem previous but it's fair to say something's changed hasn't it if
02:43 40 years this hasn't flooded. Yeah something's changed but I think what we're asking for is a
02:49 quick solution. Yeah the council to be fair to them have looked at a solution of putting a land drain
02:54 in across the field here. Yeah and what we're saying is this needs to happen sooner rather than
02:59 later yeah because this is now four months of disruption yeah and it can't carry on. Yeah.
03:08 So we can see there we are the road just drops away if you just step up onto the uh the other
03:13 the difference in height there you know it's it's a quite a quite a chunk there isn't it really?
03:19 Well really bad yeah it goes from about two inches yeah to about 10 inches I think. Yeah
03:34 you know the postman's had to change his route hasn't he because he can't come through yeah.
03:38 Normally he would just come onto our bit down there yeah and then just drive straight up here
03:43 and he can't do that he has to go all the way around the village yeah into Kinton and then
03:47 all the way back. And Ed you were saying there's some houses for sale and it's affecting you know
03:52 because it's affecting access. I've had a number of residents contact me who've got properties on
03:55 the market where they have viewings and it's the first thing that the potential buyers say is what's
04:00 going on is this a regular issue? Yeah. And I believe a number of sales have been seriously
04:05 affected by the fact that this flood is here and that some people can't even go to the viewing if
04:10 they're in a small electric car for example.