07/07/2005 - On July 2005
the Environment Agency will begin preliminary
works on a flood defence project at Queens
Drive, Nottingham. It will cost approximately
£1.6 million and will improve the level
of flood protection to about 1,500 homes and
businesses in Nottingham City Centre.
Workers will arrive on site later this month
to prepare the contractor’s compound in readiness
for construction work to begin during August
2005.
The existing Queen’s Drive defence, built
after severe flooding in 1945, comprises approximately
238 metres of embankment (Tottle Road end)
and 582 metres of stone faced concrete retaining
wall. The current standard of protection is
approximately 1 in 45 years (a flood with
over 2% chance of happening in any one year).
Under the new scheme, the existing flood
defence wall and embankment along the left
bank of the River Trent, from Willford Toll
Bridge upstream to Clifton Bridge, will be
raised to modern standards. This will provide
protection from a flood with a 1% chance of
happening in any one year. The work is expected
to be finished early in 2006.
Queen’s Drive forms part of a wider plan
for flood defence improvements in Nottingham.
We are working hard to protect Nottingham
from flooding by building new defences and
strengthening existing ones, as outlined in
our Trent Fluvial Strategy document.
The new scheme will help to protect the community
from most river flooding but people living
behind any flood defence need to be aware
that a more extreme flood is possible and
they should remain prepared for flooding.
