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Showing posts with label drainage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drainage. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Tackling drainage in Watery Lane

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Watery Lane will be closed overnight from tomorrow night (20 March) for up to two nights. The closure will be between 8PM and 5AM, and the c...
Saturday, 9 November 2024

Swanley Village Road: cleansing the culvert

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I wrote in the recent Swanley Village newsletter than the long-awaited works on the culvert in Swanley Village Road were due to take place o...
Friday, 17 February 2023

Tackling drainage on the A225

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Kent Highways drainage officers have been working to address the flooding issues on the A225 between Shoreham and Eynsford. Some of these is...
Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Drainage works on the A225

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Drainage work is set to be carried out on the A225 between Shoreham and Eynsford tonight. Recent bouts of heavy rainfall have led to floodin...
Thursday, 10 December 2020

Swanley Village: cleansing the culvert

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The culvert in Swanley Village Road, between the junctions with Button Street and Park Lane, been a local problem, with a tendency to be blo...
Wednesday, 1 July 2020

Eynsford Road drainage works set for 3 July

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Long-running efforts to tackle the flooding problems in Eynsford Road, Farningham have now identified parts of the drainage network in the ...
Thursday, 4 June 2020

Drainage works in Farningham

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Kent Highways is carrying out drainage works in Farningham High Street between Sparepenny Lane and the river east of Dartford Road. The part...
Sunday, 3 May 2020

Drainage works in Button Street tomorrow

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Tomorrow (4 May) will see Kent Highways carry out drainage works in Button. Street, affecting both the Farningham and Swanley Village sectio...
Monday, 13 April 2020

Eynsford Road flooding: still more to do

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The small section of Eynsford Road set back from the main A225 and near the junction with Farningham High Street has been subject to floodi...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Eynsford Road floods again

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Amid today's heavy downpours, I was called by residents in Eysnford Road, Farningham, about flooding in the road that was affecting th...
Monday, 22 January 2018

Eynsford Road: getting under way

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In my earlier report on action to tackle flooding at Eynsford Road, I expressed the hope that work could be carried out to  replace the man...
Thursday, 7 December 2017

Drainage works in Eynsford Road

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Residents in Eynsford Road, Farningham, experienced serious flooding in the autumn, and I have since been in frequent contact with Kent High...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Drainage works for Eynsford 'lake'

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Anyone in or passing through the centre of Eynsford recently will have seen the works (pictured) taking place near Gibson's Place. The...
Saturday, 23 April 2016

Action on A225 flooding

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As I reported in an earlier post , Kent Highways officers have been working for some time to resolve the severe flooding by the railway brid...
Friday, 29 January 2016

Flooding on the A225

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Many residents have told me of their concerns about flooding on the A225 at the railway bridge between Shoreham and Eynsford (near Preston H...
Thursday, 18 December 2014

Gateway signs go into Swanley Village

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As promised earlier in the year, some key projects in Swanley Village are being paid for from my Member Fund. I told a meeting of the Swanl...
Sunday, 12 October 2014

Pinks Hill: update with the Highways Agency

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Accompanied by Kent Highways officers, I met recently with representatives of Connect Plus and the Highways Agency.  We reviewed the follow ...
Sunday, 21 September 2014

Watts Farm visit: tackling flooding in Button Street

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There have been a number of causes of the flooding that has often affected Button Street in recent years, but any solution has to include av...
Sunday, 14 September 2014

Shoreham: more on the closure

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The closure of Station Road Shoreham (see my previous post) is set to begin tomorrow. The 421 bus service will continue to serve Shoreham ...
Tuesday, 9 September 2014

New date for Rock Hill works

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In my previous post on further drainage works to be undertaken on the Bromley-facing side of Rock Hill, I gave a date of 26 August for them...