Eco-town project poses flooding risk

A flagship eco-town project near Leicester could cause extensive flooding to local towns and villages, claim experts in the Telegraph newspaper today.

Graham Jones, from the University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, told the newspaper that the 15,000-property project at Pennbury, near Leicester, would quadruple the amount of water running into the river Sence.

This, said Jones, would put the village of Great Glen and the outlying Leicester suburbs of Stoughton and Evington at risk.

A spokesman for Co-op Estates, which is heading the project, told the newspaper that it would be working with the Environment Agency to address existing flood risks.