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LAND DRAINAGE ACT 1991 Land Drainage (Election of Drainage Boards) Regulations 1938 Land Drainage (Election of Internal Drainage Boards) (Amendment) Regulations 1977 ALCONBURY & ELLINGTON [...]

LAND DRAINAGE ACT 1991 Land Drainage (Election of Drainage Boards) Regulations 1938 Land Drainage (Election of Internal Drainage Boards) (Amendment) Regulations 1977 BUCKINGHAM & RIVER OUZEL [...]

Notice of Approval of Electoral Register and Notice of Election on 26 October 2023 for Alconbury & Ellington IDB and for Buckingham & River Ouzel IDB can be viewed here under our Notices [...]

To view the Boards Maintenance Programme for the upcoming year, please view the following web page – see here To make a request for maintenance works, please complete the following form [...]

Electors rights to Inspect the Register of Electors as at 1 April 2023: Alconbury and Ellington Internal Drainage Board – See here (also displayed at the Board’s Office, c/o Vale House, Broadmead [...]

Electors rights to Inspect the Register of Electors as at 1 April 2023: Alconbury and Ellington Internal Drainage Board – See here (also displayed at the Board’s Office, c/o Vale House, Broadmead [...]

Bedfordshire & River Ivel Notice of Drainage Rates and Special Levies for the year ended 31 March 2024 – See here (also displayed at the Board’s office, Vale House, Broadmead Road, Stewartby, [...]

Alconbury & Ellington Notice of Drainage Rates and Special Levies for the year ended 31 March 2024 – See here (also displayed at the Board’s office, Vale House, Broadmead Road, Stewartby, [...]

Buckingham & River Ouzel Notice of Drainage Rates and Special Levies for the year ended 31 March 2024 – See here (also displayed at the Board’s office, Vale House, Broadmead Road, Stewartby, [...]

Routine maintenance works were carried out as shown on the interactive map here. The Board have completed work in the following locations: Desilting, and clearance works at Godington, Astral [...]

Routine maintenance works were carried out as shown on the interactive map here. The Board have completed the following – • Desilting, and clearance works at Broom, Tempsford, Sharpenhoe, [...]

2022 – 23 Maintenance Programme – Interactive Map View larger map   Alconbury & Ellington – Maintenance Programme Bedfordshire & River Ivel – Maintenance [...]

We are pleased to publish the Boards’ new Biodiversity Handbook which refreshes our previous Wildlife Conservation and Environmental Strategy.  The handbook re-establishes a best practice culture [...]

Our catchment has suffered one of the wettest winters on record and since early October when over 90mm of rain fell on the Upper Ouse catchment, the ground has been super saturated. Areas of [...]

The Boards have continued maintenance works during COVID and the incredibly wet year we have incurred. Working in a covid safe environment has been a key priority and has included revised methods [...]