Homeowners in a flood-prone street fear leaving their homes unattended if there is threat of heavy rain after waters rose again.

Agnieszka Sikorska found her family's house in Sittingbourne once again menaced by flood waters on Saturday as a sudden burst of heavy rain sent a torrent pouring towards their front door.

Quick-thinking by neighbours saw sandbags piled up to prevent waters breaching the house, which remains damaged after flooding in Coombe Drive, Murston, earlier in the summer.

The 45-year-old chef believes the highways authorities are not doing enough to keep drains clear, and she and her neighbours now fear the swelling waters could become a regular threat.

"We have been flooded two years ago, and two months ago," she said, "because of the drainage, which should be cleaned but never gets cleaned.

"This time we saved the house because we had sandbags. It was not as big as before, this was only a small amount of rain.

"Because the rain stopped, it only came up about 20cm. But we are really worried, if we get more heavy rain when we are out we will have to come back home because we can't be sure what will happen.

Watch: Cllr James Hall reacts to flooding in August

Flooding is becoming a regular threat for Ms Sikorska and her neighbours in nearby streets.

In August emergency services were called in to pump out water which had flowed into around 10 houses in Coombe Drive .

Steve England, whose house in Lansdown Road has also been affected by flooding, accused Kent County Council of "neglect" as he claimed drains on his road had not been unblocked.

However the council said the work had been done following the August incident.

The electrical engineer was at his home with his wife Caroline and daughter Rhiannon, 20, when rainwater started gushing in through their front door.

He said: "We had the same thing happen in May last year and only just got the house back to normal. It had taken about nine to 10 months."

A spokesman for Kent County Council says an assessment of the existing flood risk to the Lansdown Road and Coombe Drive areas will be carried out.

He said: "Following this review, an outline assessment of options to improve the standard of protection against surface water flooding is required to see what we could do to reduce flood risk in the future.

"We regularly inspect and clean our major network of around 70,000 surface drains."

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