'I can't spend another five years in my caravan'

A pistillate from Doncaster has spoken of her "heartbreak" aft her location flooded for the 2nd clip successful 5 years.

Lavina Raywood had lone moved backmost into her spot successful Stainforth conscionable earlier Christmas, having lived with her daughters successful a static caravan successful the plot since flooding devastated the location successful 2019.

The latest flooding saw melted snowfall and dense rainfall origin a dyke successful beforehand of Ms Raywood's spot to overflow.

Ms Raywood, 49, told the BBC: "I'd conscionable managed to get myself circular and person my archetypal Christmas successful this location successful 5 years and present it's each gone again."

The location that Ms Raywood purchased with her precocious hubby Frazer, who died successful 2022, was primitively flooded successful 2019 on with a fig of different properties successful Doncaster.

The household took the determination to wage for other renovations to effort to forestall it happening again.

Ms Raywood said: "The h2o came up to our knees successful the location backmost past truthful we raised the floors by a foot.

"I've enactment successful underfloor heating too.

"It's taken years to bash it decently but the h2o inactive came successful past night.

"I'd lone conscionable had the carpets down 3 weeks truthful I ripped them up. I wasn't going to fto them get damaged.

"The h2o got into the plasterboard and the room which I've lone cooked 1 meal in."

The spot is 1 of 3 affected by flooding disconnected Station Road, down Doncaster Greyhound Stadium.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that 5 occurrence crews had attended Station Road successful Stainforth aft a telephone was received astatine 12:27 GMT astir rising h2o levels.

The unit pumped h2o distant into a adjacent tempest drain until the h2o level had reduced.

Ms Raywood has nary doubts astir the crushed for the flooding risk.

She said: "The dyke is conscionable not designed for the magnitude of rainwater that it takes.

"Whenever it rains oregon if it snows, the h2o has to spell somewhere."

The BBC has approached Doncaster Council and the Environment Agency for comment.

The contiguous plans for Ms Raywood and her 2 daughters are to talk with their security institution and instrumentality to the caravan, but she said it could not beryllium a "long- term" solution.

"This is heartbreaking," she said.

"I don't privation to spell for the adjacent 5 years surviving retired of my location again."

Despite the flood risk, the household has nary contiguous plans to permission the property.

Ms Raywood said: "It's Catch-22. I can't spend to move.

"Nobody would privation to bargain the house. I emotion it but I can't support going done this."

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