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 …
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 …
Owen Davies Government have finally played their cards in relation to how the recommendations from Pitt can finally be laid to rest. Are we actually surprised that the outcome of the consultation is exactly what the questions indicated? Yes …
Paul Shaffer, CIRIA/susdrain Yesterday saw the Ministerial Statement from Eric Pickles on the implementation of SuDS, and the summary of the SuDS consultation undertaken in September (consultation document here). The Statement confirmed what many had suspected, that Local Planning …