RESIDENTS of a Hampshire village are celebrating as a planned outage which could have flooded their homes has been postponed.

As previously reported, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) told residents of Broughton that there would be a power cut on Tuesday, April 23. This was to allow work to be undertaken to cut down tree branches affecting power lines.

However, villages raised concerns that this would leave their homes open to groundwater flooding, as they would be without power to use pumps to combat rising water levels.

SSEN has since revealed that it will postpone the planned works for later in the year, allowing groundwater levels to fall.

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Broughton resident Yinnon Ezra told the Advertiser: “We are delighted that SSE have decided to postpone the switch off. The groundwater levels in the area are still really high - we are still under an Environment Agency Flood warning.

“Thanks to the efforts of Caroline Nokes MP, Andrew Ferrier, David Drew at TVBC, the parish council and our local newspaper we have a postponement until the circumstances are right. Thank you to everyone who helped to get the message across.

“Hopefully, with some dry weather things will improve soon and SSE can do their important maintenance.”