“The flooding has been getting substantially worse over the last 10 years, and will continue to get worse if a certain amount of work is not done like I have been allowed to do by the Environment Agency.” I have never moved and have watched this river all my life, and no one knows this river better than myself,” he said at the time. “I’m a Herefordshire farmer and have lived at Day Farm and was born here at home. In 2020, he told The Telegraph he had the support of the village and parish council to carry out the work, and said locals had pleaded with the Environment Agency to clear the blocked river to help prevent flooding. Price had previously pleaded guilty to all seven offences, which took place in 2020 and in 2021, when he conducted follow-up work on the site. He will also have to pay £600,000 in costs, take action to help repair the river, and was disqualified from his role as director of his company for three years. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. The 68-year-old had argued that the work was necessary to prevent further flooding of properties in the village of Kingsland, which had been hit by Storm Dennis.īut he faced seven charges, brought by the Environment Agency and Natural England, including those relating to discharging silt into the river and the destruction of 71 trees. John Price spent more than 200 hours, working at weekends and evenings, to remove gravel and silt from a stretch of the River Lugg in late 2020. ![]() A farmer who dredged a stretch of Herefordshire river in an effort to save nearby homes from flooding has been jailed for 12 months.
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