{"id":578998,"date":"2025-11-18T20:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578998\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:39:15","slug":"6m-rotherham-flood-alleviation-scheme-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578998\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a36m Rotherham flood alleviation scheme approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a36m project would replace a bridge at Treeton Lane with a more modern one, which engineers said would allow water to pass more freely underneath, lowering upstream flood levels. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work still needs approval from the Environment Agency, but according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> it has widespread community support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Mr Lloyd said he doubted a repeat of the flooding could be ruled out without further work to reduce water levels beyond Treeton bridge <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I welcome anything that&#8217;s going to help and improve the situation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But if the bridge is the bottleneck, why was the water the same height at the other side of the bridge, suggesting there&#8217;s no room for any other water [even] once the bridge is changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marshall said the flood alleviation scheme demonstrated the council&#8217;s commitment to protecting communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Construction was expected to begin after detailed design work and regulatory permissions were secured, councillors were told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u00a36m project would replace a bridge at Treeton Lane with a more modern one, which engineers said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-578998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115572635436076835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}