Fixed
Overflowing highway ditch. Flooding across road.
Sent to Oxfordshire County Council 1 minute later
The drainage ditch on the eastern side of the road is overflowing causing the road to flood.
Council ref: ENQ241016471
Updates
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This is an update of the circumstances and consequences of flooding still existing on the Coxwell Road adjacent to the new housing development at Steeds farm, between Ampthill Way and the Great Coxwell roundabout adjacent to the A420. This flooding is now constant and effecting the one lane of the carriageway that is now open to traffic from the start of local developments from some 4 weeks ago. The flooding to the current extent was never in place prior to the development of homes on Ampthill way and forcing flood water into and along the drainage ditches adjacent to the paddocks to the East of the roadway. It is unacceptable that traffic having to use this road is up to its axles in water and where there may be the potential for skidding or aquaplaning along what is now a much restricted carriageway. The drainage water even during dry periods does not disperse and when in storm conditions is flooding the whole of the carriageway and leaving mud and debri that could potentially cause skidding and collision with street furniture that is now in place. Not withstanding that that there are bollards in place forcing traffic into the depths of the flooded section of the carriageway??? I have witnessed vehicles that travel at excessive speed through the traffic lights and where flood waters are then spraying onto pedestrians and cyclists that are forced, quite unreasonably through a very narrow passageway that now rests on the carriageway itself. Quite how both the traffic and road authorities are allowing such a hazardous structure to be placed in this location and for it to create such a risk to both vehicles and other necessary road users I fail to understand and especially when prolific numbers of pedestrians/dog walkers/schoolchildren and those needing access to buses and the Nursery at 'The Ranch' in Great Coxwell are clearly having to navigate the road, plant and machinery so close to the highway. There has to be a point where the housing developers and the highway/planning authority needs to accept both the responsibility and the need to remedy an unnacceptable hazard and dangers being placed on all traffic in this area and an immediate inspection and action taken to improve the drainage situation, flooding and infrastructure of the development and before there is an accident that could lead to casualties along this road, should be put into place. The general road surface along all of this carriageway is also in such poor condition, with both subsidence and severely broken surface that itself presents a hazard when attempting to traverse along this route, that presents as an extreme risk of harm to cyclists between Steeds farm entrance and on to the roundabout adjacent to the A420. I will be keen to hear from your department of any remedial and then longer term actions that will be taken at the earliest opportunity in order to avoid the prospect of accidents and incidents now introduced by this unacceptable arrangement currently in place, that might have been mitigated with further consideration towards the work required even in initially gaining access for developers into this site location. There is more suitable access for plant, machinery and equipment that might have been made from the Steeds Farm entrance and from the driveway that gives complete coverage of the North side of this development and that would not impede on the access along Coxwell Road and onto the A420 and also into Great Coxwell iteself. It remains then to be seen as to what the further impact of flooding will consist of at the time when further development both takes place and then when it is completed and as can be witnessed from the Ampthill development area with a general disregard for the run-off of flood water that now exists in the event of heavy rain or storms. Thank you for your consideration on this matter and I am happy for both a response to my comments and for my name to be given in respect of my concerns raised here. Malcolm Gee - Resident - Great Coxwell
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