CONCERNS have been raised about the Environment Agency’s £45 million plans for additional flood defences.

Denise Craghill, Green Party councillor for Guildhall ward, has written to the Environment Agency to ask why the plans do not mention defences for Huntington Road, Navigation Road, Walmgate and Fossgate.

She said: “I welcome the progress made so far in increasing the capacity of the Foss Barrier and the fact that proposals are included for improvements at Earlsborough Terrace, Marygate and the King's Staith and Tower Gardens area, as well as the references to work upstream and outside York.

“But I was very surprised to see there are no proposals in the Five Year Plan document for additional defences for the communities in my ward most directly affected by flooding from the Foss."

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She said she hoped the improvements would be sufficient to cope with the increasing frequency of severe weather events resulting from climate change, but said: "I also think that the large number of people in these areas who were flooded out of their homes or businesses for months and in some cases almost a year, have the right to expect that an additional level of assurance will at least be looked into and discussed in detail for their neighbourhoods."