RESIDENTS FLOOD MEETING SUNDAY DECEMBER 1ST 2024 3PM, LLANGATTOCK COMMUNITY HALL.

Following an emergency meeting of Llangattock Community Council tonight, we would like to invite people living in Llangattock and Legar who have been affected by the flooding during Storm Bert to a residents meeting this Sunday at 3pm. It will be an opportunity to get together and share information. The Community Council will let you know what it has learned already.

At the emergency meeting of the Council, Chair Richard Jones said: ”LCC wishes to express its deep distress and dismay at the flooding of our community by Storm Bert on Sunday November 24th, 2024. To date, we know of 23 homes and businesses which have been impacted, some of them severely. One person had to be rescued, carried out of her home by Flood Volunteers. Others were woken to find feet of water in their homes and torrents rushing through their gardens. Two Councillors experienced damage to their homes, several others are Flood Wardens and turned out in the heavy rain to help their community. Many people have told us that there had not been flooding like it in living memory.

Many homeowners have spent the last three days shifting tonnes of mud and silt from their homes. I would like to thank the neighbours who helped them, the farmers who carried sandbags with their tractor, the Rectory Hotel and Bethesda Chapel who acted as impromptu rest centres for residents, and volunteer flood wardens who turned out to protect lives and property. And I want to thank everyone who has worked since then to find out what happened.

Many people spoke of a tidal wave, or surge of water, in both the historic village centre and near the Legar. We need to understand how this came about, what was so different from previous flooding events. Llangattock Community Council will work with the County Councillor and officers from Powys County Council and other agencies to find ways to better protect Llangattock in future.”