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Pot hole hidden in flooded road caused by leaves within the drain

Reported via iOS in the Blocked Drain / Gully category by Nigel Hilton at 16:22, Thu 4 December 2025

Sent to Oxfordshire County Council less than a minute later

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Our section of Chapel street was flooded today as the drain is blocked by leaves within it. The adjacent pothole was hidden by the flood and invisible to cars and anyone walking on that side of the street.

Council ref: ENQ251067015

Asset ID: 290149691

Updates

  • Thank you for your enquiry. This issue has been passed onto the relevant team for investigation.

    State changed to: Investigating

    Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 16:22, Thu 4 December 2025

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    I’m guessing nothing’s been done about this yet as this morning’s lighter rain has caused the road to start to flood again…

    Posted by Nigel Hilton at 13:48, Tue 16 December 2025

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    More rain, more flooding. In front of the house now, too. (Another blocked drain). Ironic really, as the pic on our MP’s leaflet about blocked drains has our house behind him…

    Posted by Nigel Hilton at 12:42, Thu 18 December 2025

  • Drains still not cleared so really looking forward to the next heavy rain - but all the poorly repaired potholes along our end of Chapel St. have returned so they will take some of the excess perhaps - along with encouraging our fence to rot from splashed water within them and the odd wrecked wheel on enthusiastically driven vehicles discovering them the hard way…

    Posted by Nigel Hilton at 21:56, Sunday 11 January 2026

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    Comfortably into the New year now and the flooding's getting worse each decent rainspell. The gully at the very end of our fence, by the turning in to New Road, has joined the collection of its blocked siblings so the flooding now progresses upwards towards that junction. Whilst yet again attempting to clear drains I noticed cars dipping sharply into potholes mentioned in earlier rants dating back to the beginning of December. Still no sign of any activity to sort this all out so I think I'll copy all of my reports to you on this site to Mr van Mierlo so he's made aware too.

    Posted by Nigel Hilton at 15:23, Thursday 15 January 2026

  • Thank you for your enquiry. We have investigated your report and it has been actioned to be fixed.

    State changed to: Action scheduled

    Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 12:25, Wednesday 28 January 2026

  • Well it's nice to see some of Chapel St's potholes have been mended - shame the really bad ones shown in my earlier report and subsequent updates haven't. - And none of the blocked gullys mentioned have been cleared yet, so rain still floods the road regularly...

    Posted by Nigel Hilton at 12:25, Thursday 29 January 2026

  • State changed to: Fixed

    Updated by Oxfordshire County Council at 19:18, Friday 20 February 2026

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