Broughton Astley cannot safely receive another round of housing development until infrastructure constraints are properly resolved.
Broughton Astley is a low-lying village with a watercourse running through the centre, where natural gradients already cause water to pool and rise. Existing infrastructure is under strain and can no longer fully safeguard residents from the effects of intense rainfall or the uncertainties brought about by climate change.
Drainage limitations, an overstretched sewerage system and the increasing bottlenecking of rainwater into the watercourse mean that both pluvial and fluvial flooding have already seriously affected the lives of many residents. There has been repeated flooding in specific areas, with water spilling into gardens, outbuildings and homes.
Available data and correspondence confirms that the treatment works is at capacity and the frequency of sewage spills into the watercourse is too high. Residents’ health and well-being, as well as the life of anything trying to exist within or downstream from the brook is already jeopardised!
Drainage and sewage infrastructure must come first.
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Reached 1,000 supporters
February 28, 2026
Reached 100 supporters
February 5, 2026
360 Comments
All the flooding that's going on is not entirely down to the recent rainfall. We've had wet winters in the past and nothing like the flooding we're getting now. The authorities need to start thinking of the residents and not the building companies profits.
Too many houses being built with no thought to the over population it brings when there’s no plans to build more schools, doctors, dentists etc being provided. Plus it puts a strain on the roads that aren’t even being maintained so there’s pot holes that aren’t being repaired.
This is ill-conceived with the flooding we are currently experiencing - Frolesworth Road is closed to traffic tonight due to flooding, how are the residents on the new proposed estate supposed to get home, when I couldn't even get to my house on Jubilee Road this evening?!
Entirely agree - more houses built anywhere in Broughton will simply have a 'knock on effect' further downstream. This is not just a case of stopping individual developments, but an opportunity to reassess the impact on the entire village.
Having been twice affected by flooding due to overloading and lack of maintenance on the drainage system under LA and STW jurisdiction, I fully back this and that government uses proper modelling and not the rubbish developers put out that is all to benefit their want to build.
Infrustructure in B.A. is ancient and failing; exacerbate existing highway pedestrian safety and traffic issues; conflict wi National Planning Policy Framework and BA Neighbourhood plan and does not reflect the community views.
I object to this development as infrastructure issues such as; capacity at local GP surgery, traffic flow through the village, mitigation of existing flooding problems and lack of addional sewage capacity
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Broughton Astley cannot safely receive another round of housing development until infrastructure constraints are properly resolved.
Broughton Astley is a low-lying village with a watercourse running through the centre, where natural gradients already cause water to pool and rise. Existing infrastructure is under strain and can no longer fully safeguard residents from the effects of intense rainfall or the uncertainties brought about by climate change.
Drainage limitations, an overstretched sewerage system and the increasing bottlenecking of rainwater into the watercourse mean that both pluvial and fluvial flooding have already seriously affected the lives of many residents. There has been repeated flooding in specific areas, with water spilling into gardens, outbuildings and homes.
Available data and correspondence confirms that the treatment works is at capacity and the frequency of sewage spills into the watercourse is too high. Residents’ health and well-being, as well as the life of anything trying to exist within or downstream from the brook is already jeopardised!
Drainage and sewage infrastructure must come first.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
February 28, 2026
Reached 100 supporters
February 5, 2026
360 Comments
This awful situation of the drainage system not being fit for purpose and the regularity with which raw sewage is flowing into residents properties must be dealt with before people become ill. The infrastructure must be improved.
All the flooding that's going on is not entirely down to the recent rainfall. We've had wet winters in the past and nothing like the flooding we're getting now. The authorities need to start thinking of the residents and not the building companies profits.
Too many houses being built with no thought to the over population it brings when there’s no plans to build more schools, doctors, dentists etc being provided. Plus it puts a strain on the roads that aren’t even being maintained so there’s pot holes that aren’t being repaired.
This is ill-conceived with the flooding we are currently experiencing - Frolesworth Road is closed to traffic tonight due to flooding, how are the residents on the new proposed estate supposed to get home, when I couldn't even get to my house on Jubilee Road this evening?!
Entirely agree - more houses built anywhere in Broughton will simply have a 'knock on effect' further downstream. This is not just a case of stopping individual developments, but an opportunity to reassess the impact on the entire village.
Having been twice affected by flooding due to overloading and lack of maintenance on the drainage system under LA and STW jurisdiction, I fully back this and that government uses proper modelling and not the rubbish developers put out that is all to benefit their want to build.
Infrustructure in B.A. is ancient and failing; exacerbate existing highway pedestrian safety and traffic issues; conflict wi National Planning Policy Framework and BA Neighbourhood plan and does not reflect the community views.
I object to this development as infrastructure issues such as; capacity at local GP surgery, traffic flow through the village, mitigation of existing flooding problems and lack of addional sewage capacity
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This awful situation of the drainage system not being fit for purpose and the regularity with which raw sewage is flowing into residents properties must be dealt with before people become ill. The infrastructure must be improved.