Flood water is causing issues across Wilmslow

by Lisa Reeves

Thursday 16^th June 2016

Thu 16^th Jun 2016

Motorists are being urged to drive carefully and allow extra time for their journey this afternoon after reports of flash flooding on the A34 bypass and Wilmslow town centre.

Amongst the areas affected by flood water are Cliff Road, Water Lane, Oak Lane, Fulshaw Park, Chapel Lane and the junction of Alderley Road and Green Lane.

Wilmslow Police have also issued a flood warning for Station Road requesting that motorists use alternative routes as the road is flooded under the railway bridge.

Photos: Cliff Road, Chapel Lane and Knutsford Road.

Pete Taylor who sent the second photo said "There have been three blocked CEC grids at the junction with Fulshaw Park for many months. These have been repeatedly reported to CEC but no action taken.

"It is impossible to walk either into or out of Fulshaw Park; I measured the depth on my wellies as 11 inches."

Comments

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Terry Roeves

Thursday 16^th June 2016 at 8:27 pm

Yet another example of CEC not caring about us. Do they expect us to unblock our drains ourselves? Or repair our pavements?

Peter Evans

Thursday 16^th June 2016 at 10:12 pm

And Chapel Lane keeps flooding, like it has for last 6 years at least. CEC did come and fill a large sink hole that opened up, but the flooding has continued just as it was before (to be fair the workmen said that it would as they knew they hadn't sorted the root cause), if anything it's even worse now. Albert Road and Wilmslow Road also have significant issues (as they temp traffic lights and ensuing chaos outside Kenmore surgery will attest).

Sarah Statham

Thursday 16^th June 2016 at 10:24 pm

Or another example of some very heavy rain?

Mark Russell

Friday 17^th June 2016 at 7:44 am

Its a sad state of affairs that the council are willing to find £100,00 for some bogs on a field, but wont pay to clean the drains. No foresight there is their? And Sarah, its 2016, i find it a bit of a stretch to say we can not as a community with the amount of cash we have, come up with an effective way of dealing with rain water?? We do not have any sort of mountains where massive amounts of water come pouring in off, like the poor community in Cockermouth had to deal with for example.