Revisiting flood affected farming communities in Gloucestershire to assess the long-term impacts
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- Friday, 26th June 2009 at 1:37pm
Gill Payne, our Chief Executive, and Lord Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency, are leading a visit today to farming communities in Gloucestershire affected by the summer floods of 2007 and 2008.
"We're visiting areas in Gloucestershire where flooding continues to be a problem, and to listen to local representatives’ proposed solutions."
"In particular, we will be meeting with local farmers to hear directly if the consequences of the floods are still being felt and, if so, what that means for jobs, livelihoods and the wider local economy and for the land."
Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, first visited the Gloucestershire farms in 2007. The devastation of the floods that year, along with the foot and mouth and bluetongue outbreaks, led to the Prime Minister asking Stuart to prepare a report on how the rural economy could be further strengthened.
A year later Stuart made a return visit to see the damage that was still evident from the 2007 floods, as well as the further flooding in the summer of 2008.
Download the full 'England's rural areas: steps to release their economic potential' report
Download a full report on the 'Impacts of summer 2007 floods on rural communities in England'
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