Flooding: Plan to protect 11,000 Hull homes in doubt as Yorkshire Water faces Kingswood pumping station setback
THE future of a new pumping station that could protect about 11,000 homes from flooding is hanging in the balance.
The planning application for the station in Kingswood was rejected earlier this month.
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The site of the proposed pumping station in Selset Way, Kingswood.
Yorkshire Water will now decide in the next two weeks whether to appeal against the decision or not.
Richard Sears, stakeholder and media relations manager at Yorkshire Water, said: "We were extremely disappointed with the decision, particularly in light of the lengths we went to in advance to explain why the proposed development had to be sited where it was.
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"The pumping station pumps excess surface water from the Bransholme and Kingswood areas into the River Hull, or into our storage lagoon on the site if it is high tide in the river.
"We had proposed to upgrade the station to ensure it is fit for the future and provides the best possible flood protection for the community."
The proposed facility would be erected next to the existing site, with the old station being demolished once its replacement is fully operational.
Yorkshire Water highlighted four key reasons the pumping station needed to be located at the site – reservoir safety, reduced site capacity, discharge to the river and the conservation area.
Mr Sears said: "If we were to locate the pumping station over a different section of the site it would have an impact on the embankment of our storage lagoon.
"The pipe infrastructure is designed to come to the site at a certain point. Moving that infrastructure and the station itself to a different part of the site would reduce the amount of water we can safely store in the lagoon and therefore reduce the flood protection."
He said the water company is committed to working with Hull City Council and residents to find the best solutions.
Residents have aired concerns about the affect the station will have on house prices as well as the appearance of the area.
Mr Sears said: "We are aware the proposed new building is very large and will have an impact on houses nearby.
"We had committed to work with the council and with residents to do all we could within reason to soften the appearance of the building."
Comments
by Havealook
Sunday, January 06 2013, 11:12PM
“The residents have no problem with building the pump house just it's location and a location behind the cinema would be fine. Yorkshire water have already changed the landscape by raising the banks of the lagoon to store more water then fitted new pumps which took over a year to complete. For the record the houses near the pumping station did not flood in 2007 as they are higher maybe if they flooded last time they would be a little more willing to accept the pump satiation been built. But would you be happy to drop £30,000 of your house price to protect homes on two other estates ??”
by molls04
Friday, January 04 2013, 11:24AM
“KIngswood flooded in June 2007 soley because almost all the pumps at the outdated and poorly maintained surface water pumping station sited on the former Bransholme Sewage Treatment Works site failed and it took Yorkshire Water 2 days to discover this.
These pumps serve both Bransholme (originally) and now Kingswood and pump flows to the adjacent River Hull and utilise (in theory but rarely in practice in the past) the balancing lagoon on the former STW site. A new surface water pumping station will reduce the likelihood of any flooding on Kingswood as it continues to grow in the future - this only issue here for refusing planning surely is just its location near existing new properties?
The Humbercare transfer tunnel from west to east Hull and on to to the 'new' Sewage Treatment Works at Saltend together with the decommissioning of storm pumps at West Hull Pumping Station on Goulton Street caused problems to the west of the city.
Flooding on Kingswood is not linked to problems in the rest of the city.”
by Cluhead
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 10:22PM
“It doesn't matter does it Mr Sewerage Undertaker! The reason Bransholme & Kingswood flooded was because the Humbercare Tunnel was full and couldn't take any more sewerage that was pumped up the rising main from that pumping station to the mixing chamber at East Hull pumping station! The excessive water that was left standing was stagnating because the pumping station was flooded and shut the pumps down! Just like the West Hull Pumping Station. When are you gonna come out and admit the truth that it was all your mistake and not that of a 1/150 year storm which has been over shadowed by the torrential rain we have had all year! East, North, South, West Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have been flooded because of sodden ground! So tell me why are we not seeing the same results as of 2007, which in reality should be worse this time around because of the far more rainfall, fallen over longer periods of time! Hull nor its surrounding villages have no standing water even though its been the wettest year on record! Come on Sewerage Undertaker! Admit that you ballsed it up big time with your Engineering Overall back in 2007!”
by chris5800
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 12:15PM
“They can build a pumping station on top of my house if they want as long as it stops flooding. Happy new xmas hic burp another whiskey please dear.”
by Col18
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 12:09PM
“It was rejected by whom and why? If by a planning committee based in Hull they should be held to account. They can plan to stick houses on flood-prone East Riding land but wont let a pumping station be built to protect Hull homes? The only consistent decision the people on these panels make is to get up in the morning, and even then we'd all be better off if they didnt.”
by beckster07
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 11:34AM
“cant believe they even thought of giving planning permission for those houses to be built their in the first place knowing what used to be dumped there 35 years ago when we was kids...”
by Greeny
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 10:36AM
“Don't build it and let em flood then , simple !”
by allwaysred1
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 10:06AM
“A house flooded with water....or a ugly looking pumping station...Now which do i choose,mmmmm.This a hard one.!!!!!”
by Dave577
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 9:27AM
“" Residents have aired concerns about the affect the station will have on house prices as well as the appearance of the area. "
And flooding won't affect them ??
Some people are just too stupid to deserve help.”
by 343YE4T3R
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 7:57AM
“Kings-flood, at least my house didnt flood last time. If it ever happens again im sure the new 300 house they have build since wont have any effect.”