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To: Environment Agency and local government (West Sussex County Council)
Create Wetlands to rescue Rural areas from Flooding
We call on the Environment Agency and West Sussex County Council to fund the purchase of land and the development of designated Wetlands to combat flooding in our rural areas, where the population is increasing through the pressure to build.
Why is this important?
In our rural area there is almost no brown-field building land, so field after green field is going under concrete. Trees are being felled. The water table is higher than ever before. In the current climate conditions, houses are flooding, roads are flooding. Sewage is pouring across our streets and into play areas. And still we are forced to build more houses to meet impossible Government targets.
We call for the Government to purchase local land and fund its conversion to Wetlands, to absorb and hold surface water, to reduce flooding, to slow the loss of biodiversity and form an environment where our increasingly cornered wildlife can thrive.
We call for the Government to purchase local land and fund its conversion to Wetlands, to absorb and hold surface water, to reduce flooding, to slow the loss of biodiversity and form an environment where our increasingly cornered wildlife can thrive.
