Further drainage works in Goldsel Road

Residents have long been concerned about flooding in Goldsel Road, and I have been pursuing  this issue with Kent Highways over the last eighteen months. The engineers have proposed a two-stage solution. The first stage of the works, which was to increase the storage for the soakaways, took place in January. However, the second stage - putting in deep bores to improve the way that the water soaks out of the chambers - has itself taken a couple of visits by the engineers, the second of them over the last couple of days. We will then have to judge how the new system copes with heavy rainfall, but hopefully it will deliver significant improvement.