Buckinghamshire County Council has claimed that investing £100,000 extra to road maintenance meant ‘several areas historically suffering flash floods were spared this summer’.

Some of the £100,000 was used to clean out gullies and ditches, and provide deep soakaway boreholes.

The county’s highways team cleared the drainage system in Chesham High Street, for instance, preventing a repeat of past surface water flooding, despite the summer’s extreme rainfall.

Val Letheren, county transportation cabinet member, said soil was ‘already saturated,’ so if there was high rainfall over the autumn and winter, ongoing maintenance was ‘vital’.

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