{"id":20255,"date":"2018-03-29T21:16:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20255"},"modified":"2018-03-29T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T20:16:48","slug":"reducing-flood-risks-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20255","title":{"rendered":"Reducing flood risks in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18032901.jpg\" alt=\"Reducing flood risks\" \/><br \/>\nThe window of the Community Free Space in Bury Street currently has a display on <em>&#8216;Reducing flood risks in Abingdon.<\/em>&#8216; There were also experts there yesterday to listen and answer people&#8217;s questions.<\/p>\n<p>Some of&nbsp; the information on the display boards can be read at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordshirefloodtoolkit.com\/contacts\/abingdon-flood-alleviation-scheme\/\">https:\/\/www.oxfordshirefloodtoolkit.com\/contacts\/abingdon-flood-alleviation-scheme\/<\/a>, but the information boards have more detail.<\/p>\n<p>Work continues towards a flood storage area at Abingdon Common, and talks with landowners has begun. A provisional estimate for the scheme is \u00a35m. Timescales are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 2018 to March 2019 \u2013 Development of the flood storage area design and modelling. Continue to investigate complementary options.<\/li>\n<li>Spring 2019 \u2013 Planning application submission<\/li>\n<li>End 2019 \u2013 Full Business Case approval<\/li>\n<li>2020 \u2013 Estimated construction start date subject to approvals&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The window of the Community Free Space in Bury Street currently has a display on &#8216;Reducing flood risks in Abingdon.&#8216; There were also experts there yesterday to listen and answer people&#8217;s questions. Some of&nbsp; the information on the display boards can be read at https:\/\/www.oxfordshirefloodtoolkit.com\/contacts\/abingdon-flood-alleviation-scheme\/, but the information boards have more detail. Work continues towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}