Once again local roads were flooded this afternoon as they failed to cope with heavy rain. 
With flooding becoming such a regular event, the County Council need to review all the local roads and find a solution to the persistent flooding.
It is ridiculous, that the local road network cannot cope with heavy rain. This is not a one-off or hundred year event, this is every few weeks!The main Tenbury/Bromyard Road was only open to large vehicles and 4x4s.
By 11.45 pm tonight 34.8 mm of rain had fallen in Tenbury, 11.2 mm falling in one hour.
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Totally agree with you. It is clear that the government wants the roads to get blocked when it rains. Look at the A456 in Burford and Boraston. It didn't used to flood, so the County Council reconstructed the road (at great cost and great inconvenience) so that it would flood, which it now does every time there is heavy rain, most seriously near the Peacock and by the Showground. Everyone knows about this flooding, it is on the local radio time and again. It flooded yesterday. Obviously the same road has problems at Newnham Bridge and Little Hereford as well. It would be a very easy job to fix these floods as all of them are near a river so a ditch and/or drain and/or culvert is all that is needed.
It's hopeless, we were going to Tenbury for a short break but with the roads like this we had to cancel, for the 2nd time in two years - we cannot carry on booking a few nights away, then not being able to get there. We'll have to go somewhere else
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