PETITIONRejectedPetition · petition.parliament.uk
Fund the Creation of Wetlands to Protect Rural Sussex from flooding.
We call for the Environment Agency to purchase local flood plane land and fund its conversion Wetland areas. These will absorb and hold surface water and will also slow the loss of biodiversity and form an environment where our increasingly threatened wildlife can thrive.
Last fetched 03 May 2026 · petition.parliament.uk
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 7/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 7/100,000
Background
In our rural area there is almost no brown-field building land so field after green field is going under concrete. Trees are felled. The water table is naturally high and, when rainfall is heavy and continuous, houses and roads flood, sewage pours across our streets and into play areas. Tankers rumble constantly through village lanes.
We are forced to build more houses to meet high Government targets on a crumbling infrastructure, losing drainage and increasing sewage with each new build.