Shropshire Star

Shrewsbury car parks are reopening at last

All bar one of the car parks in Shrewsbury town centre are now reopen following the floods.

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Frankwell Car Park when the flooding struck. It remains closed.

Raven Meadows multi-storey, The Gap and the Premier Inn car park are open and are once again accessible from Roushill as normal.

Spaces in the NCP on Wyle Cop are still limited however as some water still remains.

Shropshire Council reopened St Julian’s Friars car park yesterday afternoon but some spaces will remain coned off until the water has completed subsided. The authority is asking people not to go beyond the coned areas as further rain is expected this weekend and the river levels will rise again.

Frankwell car park, which has been completely under water for a number of weeks now, remains closed.

As the county town slowly recovers, residents and visitors are being asked to show support to businesses that have been affected by Storms Dennis and Ciara.

Shrewsbury Park and Ride is free to use until March 14 in a bid to encourage trade.

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Meanwhile a £10,000 fundraising drive to support one of Shrewsbury’s biggest venues, the West Mid Showground, is under way.

The community space has been devastated by the floods and £10,000 needs to be raised to get it back up and running again.

Every building on the site has been flooded and the ground itself needs work to be able to host events in the future.

The showground is not insured against flood damage due to its riverside location.

So far nearly £1,000 has been pledged. To donate visit crowdfunder.co.uk/shrewsburys-west-mid-showground-flooding-relief