Residents of a holiday park have welcomed new owners who say they plan to spend millions of pounds on flood prevention work.
Meadow Bay Villages took over Billing Aquadrome, Northamptonshire, in April and have spent £12m on improvements – something residents said had brought it "back to life". The Great Billing site was hit by flooding in both January and February, and the holiday park was evacuated on both occasions., and he was hopeful there would be no more flooding before the money was put to use.Mandy and Simon Bazley, who have lived at the park for 12 years, said the last evacuation was "scary" as water came onto the site quickly at about 03:00 GMT."It was difficult...
"You can see the changes already ... Having management back on will help a lot... Before, we had no one to fight our corner.": "We are on a floodplain and it happens. If you live on a flood plain you expect to get flooding.
"It reminds me of what it was like 20 years ago with the hustle and bustle and children out playing. I'm really pleased."