Fury as streets and homes flooded 'months after town's flood defence scheme pulled'

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Environment Agency bosses have come under fire after more than 100 homes - as well as many streets - in Timperley were inundated in the New Year’s Day floods.

A councillor who represents the area says warnings to the authorities over the flood risk to the area have been ‘like banging your head against a brick wall’.

Coun Shaun Ennis said the shelving last summer of a multi-million pound flood mitigation scheme by the Environment Agency for the Timperley area was ‘a huge mistake’.

The councillor, who leads the Liberal Democrat group on Trafford council, said that although the deluge which began on New Year’s Eve was an ‘an act of God’, much of the flooding which affected Timperley was ‘predictable’.