Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has backed moves by residents - whose flood devastated homes were shown around the world - to be given a greater level of protection.
Pictures of homes in Beverley’s Willow Grove, with canoeists paddling past, summed up the plight of thousands across the area who were affected by the June 2007 floods and appeared in the national press and on the internet.
Graham said: “Willow Grove and Pasture Terrace were both badly affected by the floods. Homes were badly damaged and hundreds of thousands of pounds were spent by insurance companies putting things right after the flood waters had receded.
“However, after the floods had gone residents got together and investigated just why they had been so badly affected. They called attention to changes in drainage which appear to have led to them being flooded so badly and for so long.”
He said the Westwood Flood Group had gone about trying to get improvements in just the right way.
“The Group is now having a multi-agency meeting with Yorkshire Water, the Environment Agency and the Council to try and resolve this issue. I will be fully supporting them with this,” added Graham.
“What they want is not expensive or unreasonable – it is simply to know that their homes will have no less protection than they enjoyed before changes were made to the drainage system in the area just three years before the 2007 floods.”
