County Highways are about to dig three large trial pits on the Green and conduct infiltration tests to see if a large soakaway there might be capable of taking all the surface water arriving from Helm Lane.
Such a soakaway would remove the need to renew the inadequate soakaways (under domestic gardens?) at the Abbey Drive/Robby Lea Drive crossroads, but would require a new sewer from there to the Green. So we can expect a lot of disruption before the flooding is cured.
Natland Parish Council and the Lord of the Manor have consented to Cumbria County Council carrying out this investigative work which is provisionally scheduled to start on Tuesday 23 April 2019.
David Peters – Chair of Natland Parish Council
18/4/19