A flood-prevention scheme for Banbury has failed to secure vital Government funding, preventing the project from going ahead - reports the Banbury Cake.
Since 1998, when the town last flooded, the Environment Agency has been working on a scheme to protect against a repeat occurance.
But the main part of the scheme, set to cost £12m, depended on support from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to go ahead.
Facing competition from flood-prevention schemes around the country, Banbury's bid for funding has not been successful.
Richard Harding, the Environment Agency's project manager for the scheme, said: "We are aware this will disappoint people hoping for the protection a scheme like this would have provided.
"We believed this was a perfectly viable scheme."
Thursday 7 September 2006
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