Buckingham flooding event cancelled due to poor weather

Buckingham was hit by floods during Christmas 2020

An event on how to protect your home from flood damage has been cancelled due to "poor weather".

The Buckingham and Villages Community Board (BVCB) said Tuesday's demonstration meeting at the Buckingham Library car park would be rearranged.

A comment on its Facebook page said: "There's something vaguely ironic about a flood resilience event being cancelled due to rain being forecast."

BVCM said the irony was not "lost on us".

The event was due to run from 10:00 until 16:00 GMT.

Ahead of the event, BVCM said: "Members of the public will be able to find out how to keep their homes and properties as safe as possible from flooding and what to do in the case of a flood.

"There will be demonstrations of flood resilience equipment and the opportunity to ask experts any questions you might have on how to become more resilient, either as a community or as an individual property owner."

The Environment Agency, MDA Flood Resilience Consultants, Buckingham Town Council and members of Buckingham Council were all due to attend.

Patrick Fealey, vice chairman of the BVCB, said: "The irony of the event being cancelled due to bad weather isn't lost on us.

"However it was due to take place outside in pouring rain and high winds, so there concern about using the gazebos and that people would not turn out for this important event - plus we didn't want people getting wet and cold when we could avoid it.

"On a serious note, the people of Buckingham and the surrounding area have been badly impacted by flooding in the town in recent years so events like this are really important and a new date will be arranged as soon as possible."