SRA Annual Report 2022-23: Highways referrals
Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group SouthWest (FWAG SW) advisers got involved with 14 ‘highway referrals’, helping Somerset County Council’s Highways Department to assess whether road flooding problems could be reduced through better management of land nearby.
They also followed up a few cases from previous years, to ask, for example, if things were going well or if any more advice was needed.
Lists follow of places that were visited.
South Somerset
- Blackford between Compton Pauncefoot and Maperton
- East Coker, and West Coker, near Yeovil
- Misterton near Crewkerne
- Shepton Beauchamp
Somerset West and Taunton
- land near the A358 at Combe Florey
- Crowcombe
- Langford Budville, and the lane between Chipley and Spring Grove, both north of Wellington
- Preston Bowyer north-east of Milverton
- Stoke St Gregory
- Westford west of Wellington (two landowners)
Sedgemoor
- land near Ashford Reservoir west of Cannington
Ideas discussed with farmers and landowners to reduce runoff included using coir matting, putting in a hedgebank, installing a gully and sleeping policeman, creating buffer areas and ditch-digging.
Find out more about SRA-funded works done along the A358 at Combe Florey.