One year after Storm Babet: Hull MP confirms action taken to prevent road flooding

Hull and East Yorkshire MP Emma Hardy is reassuring people that steps are being taken to prevent surface water from flooding the roads.

It follows the one year anniversary since Storm Babet hit East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, causing major travel disruption.

The project 'Living With Water' seeks to raise awareness across Hull and the East Riding about the challenges and benefits water presents to the region.

It’s a collaborative effort involving Yorkshire Water, Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Environment Agency, and the University of Hull, all working together to manage water in the area.

The organisation say 'several sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) projects are being planned to help manage the area’s flood risk.'

MP for Hull West and Haltemprice Emma Hardy said:

"In the constituency of Hull, what they've been concentrating on is a project called Living with Water. And this water has been looking at creating blue-green aqua infrastructure, so areas that would hold more surface water because actually within the city of Hull it's surface water flooding where there's the highest risk because of we have the tidle barrier within the city and we also have the flood defences along the river.

"So living with water projects has created a number of these greens around the city, and this is going to continue to expand, which are basically places where we can hold some of the surface water it is ending up in the combined sewers, and therefore stop it flooding and coming back out into people's homes."