Tamworth’s MP Opens Coton Flood Management Scheme
Christopher Pincher, MP for Tamworth, has opened a new £2.5m flood management scheme in the Mercian ward of Tamworth.
The Coton Flood Risk Management Scheme, on the edge of Tamworth, is the first completed section of the wider Lower Tame Flood Risk Management Scheme.
It includes new flood embankments to the north of Coton Lane and new flood walls along Lichfield Road.
Tamworth MP Christopher Pincher, who opened the scheme, said it would be a “great relief” to the people of Lichfield Road, Coton Lane and Riverside after recent flooding.
Construction work on the scheme, which began in October, also includes new walls around the Fox Inn roundabout and improvements to the culvert in Coton Lane and the Severn Trent Water surface water drainage chamber on Lichfield Road.
