CHARD Town Council said it was left “sad and frustrated” after having to respond to “significant storm damage”.
The council, however, in its note to residents, also wanted to “reassure you that you are not alone and to give information, first hand, about what is going on now in the aftermath”.
“The first matter is an internal Chard Town Council debrief to collate matters at a local level, such as evidence for future scheme requests and assess the overall impact on the Chard area.
“CARG [Chard Area Resilience Group] is part of this process and has undertaken significant work to evaluate locations and evidence from social media and other platforms.
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“This shows the value of you putting evidence straight on to the CARG Facebook page as incidents are ongoing,” the council’s message read.
“We, and our volunteer colleagues in the Chard Area Resilience Group (CARG) along with other volunteers such as Chard Rotary Club and Wessex 4x4 did what we could to assist, within our powers.
“You will see from some Facebook posts that there is deep frustration within our community and a certain amount of confusion and misinformation about who does what, what has been done and even who or what ‘the council’ is.
“This note is to reassure you that you are not alone and to give information, first hand, about what is going on now in the aftermath.
“The first matter is an internal Chard Town Council debrief to collate matters at a local level, such as evidence for future scheme requests and assess the overall impact on the Chard area.
“CARG is part of this process and has undertaken significant work to evaluate locations and evidence from social media and other platforms.
“This shows the value of you putting evidence straight on to the CARG Facebook page as incidents are on-going.
“This is now approaching 70 locations (not houses but wider locations) across the Chard area and will be a massive input to following up. Thank you CARG and all volunteers,” the message also read.
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