More shops are announced for the Capital Centre in Walton Le Dale. Quite a good spot, just over the boundary from Preston. It is on the flood plain of the river though. I don’t recall when Walton was last flooded but if you believe the climate forecasts then maybe it will happen more often. Flood plains are often the most fertile land so seems a shame that this area is being fully built over. Is there any coincidence that over hundreds of years very little has previously been built on the flood plain?
The Environment Agency has this area under watch so there’ll be a warning to get out of the shops although it’s likely to happen extremely rarely it seems to say. Also there are flood defences although I don’t know to what level of flooding they are effective as they aren’t prominent. Click here to view the flood map.
There are two main risks, one is from heavy rain flooding and the other is from rising sea levels making the tides higher. The river being tidal up to Walton.