Brand new flood defences in Otley have won an engineering award after they held out against rising river levels in the storms earlier this year.
The defences, which were completed late last year, held up during Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin. Homes which flooded in 2015 and 2020 were kept safe from the downpour, as was a road by the river.
Otley town councillor and Leeds City Council member Colin Campbell said: “The area of houses adjacent to the river lived with the threat of flooding, which was particularly bad in 2015 and 2020, for years."
