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Ian Titherington, Cardiff City Council   It has been an absolute pleasure being the CIRIA SuDS Champion for the last 12 months. To be recognised by people whom I greatly admire (and pinch great ideas from) is all a bit …

David Strang, Water UK   https://www.water.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Water-UK-SuDS-brochure.pdf   The SuDS community has rightly taken a lot of interest in the new approach to sewer adoption that water and sewerage companies (WaSCs) have developed. For the first time, national standards have been …

Brian J. D’Arcy, for the Kinross-shire Civic Trust Raingardens Challenge   CIRIA is pleased to support an interesting initiative in Scotland in 2020: The Kinross-shire Raingardens Challenge, which is promoting SuDS.   Kinross and its surrounding areas are served by …

Phiala Mehring,   Drainage is one of those ‘out of sight and out of mind’ type things.  For most of us, the only time we contemplate drainage is when it goes wrong.  In fairness, there wasn’t really a lot any …

Paul Hurcombe, Severn Trent   Whilst we are all looking to identify opportunities to incorporate multiple benefit SuDS features within our flood alleviation schemes we need to be mindful that we don’t overlook opportunities to be innovative with existing infrastructure …

Following consultations in 2017, the Welsh Minister for Environment has now signed the Commencement Order which brings Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 into force in Wales. As a result, from January 7 2019, proposed new developments …

In my post dated June 2017 I provided information on the Welsh Government consultation on implementing a requirement for SuDS in all new developments through Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. Since then, there has been …

Phil Chatfield, Welsh Government   The Welsh Government published voluntary standards for sustainable drainage in January 2016, following a public consultation in 2015. The standards set out principles to be taken into account in designing surface drainage for new developments …

Mark Fermor, GeoSmart Information   New mapping shows infiltration SuDS potential is good across 80% of England and Wales, supporting widespread adoption.   Water balance studies demonstrate that SuDS can boost water resources to match the increased demand represented by …

Anthony McCloy, McCloy Consulting   After a number of years waiting in the wings, the SuDS Standards finally made centre stage, but perhaps now not in the manner that many of us had anticipated. The release of the ministerial statement …