THE Environment Agency aims to protect homes in Cullompton from flooding within three years. Homes devastated last winter are to be protected by flood walls, flood gates and road humps by 2016 if funding can be secured. A month’s rain fell in just three days last November, leaving many houses deluged (above). Over 50 residential and commercial properties were severely damaged when the River Culm reached its highest levels since 1962.PHOTO: Warren Radmore