{"id":931085,"date":"2026-05-01T16:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/931085\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:53:25","slug":"plans-to-improve-protection-after-homes-flooded-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/931085\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to improve protection after homes flooded in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, councillor Richard Austin said: &#8220;One very disappointing aspect of the investigation is that it identified that the wall where the overtopping occurred was a serious area of risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In fact, there was some serious cracking in that wall. That was identified in June, six months before the flood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, the IDB&#8217;s chief executive Daniel Withnall said the wall was inspected before winter and a bid was put in for repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t meet the timings to put that scheme on the bid list, if you like, for that year,&#8221; he told the meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We did put it in the following year and actually some money was spent last year to fill some of those cracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Withnall added that the IDB was working to attract &#8220;further funding to Boston&#8221; in a bid to future-proof the area&#8217;s flood defences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, councillor Richard Austin said: &#8220;One very disappointing aspect of the investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-931085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116500365778881389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931085","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=931085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}