Lincolnshire is one of the UK counties that is most at risk of flooding, with over a third of residents being at “direct risk of flooding“. In some areas of the county that figure rises to 95% of properties.
So, naturally, after pretending to cut a bunch of initiatives that never existed in the first place, the first thing the new Reform local administration in Lincolnshire does is to disband Lincolnshire County Council’s Flood and Water Management Scrutiny Committee.
…the closed committee allowed councillors to hold bodies like Anglian Water, the Environment Agency and Internal Drainage Boards to account.
A Labour councillor in the area describes closing it down as being “reckless, foolhardy and wrong”.
[…] in Lincolnshire, the county that includes the area most at risk of floods. That council has already shut down a committee that actually deals with flood risk – an action that was described as “reckless, […]