All very normal here for water levels in both Tewkesbury and Worcester in the winter after heavy rainfall. Both settlements have evolved to include plenty of green space such as the Severn Ham, between the confluence of the Severn and Avon where flood water can overflow from the natural river channels, and Worcester racecourse and New Road cricket ground are used to winter flooding. Only very rarely (such as July 2007, evidently not winter-related) do freak conditions cause abnormal flooding. This all looks well within normal tolerances at present.

W​hen i was a kid the council used to empty the gullys on a 13 week rota, us kids followed the 'drain man' about watching him suck up piles of leaves and rubbish. They would also dredge rivers and streams and cut back foliage once or twice a year, they also used to plant trees that drink many many gallons of water a day, but chopped them down preferring ulez and other spy cameras instead. Farmers fields were smaller, with trees and hedgerows marking the edges of the smaller fields, but they went long ago. Open spaces, with all those trees and scrubland became out of town shopping 'experiences'! Finally they never build next to rivers or on flood plains... how times have changed!

Fortunately not as severe as the July 2007 floods

Let the natural flood plains deal with it in their own time... Only the developers appear to not understand what flood plains are and do.

I’ve seen it flood worse