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Are you a creative SUDS designer? Cambridge City Council in conjunction with the Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) and supported by Cambridgeshire Horizons have launched a Sustainable Drainage Competition to celebrate the launch of the Cambridge SUDS design and adoption guide.
The competition will be the first sustainable drainage design competition in the UK.
The competition aims to attract high quality designs that exemplify what is achievable when SUDS are integrated into the design of a development.
All entries must be received by 31 March 2010.
If you are up to the challenge and would like the honour of being the first winner of a SUDS design competition in this exciting and fast moving area of construction, then please refer to Cambridge City Council's website for full details, please click here:
On the 21st April 2009, the Government published a draft Flood and Water Management Bill. Drafted in response to recent flooding events and the recommendations made through the The Pitt Review, this Bill seeks to:
This Bill is available for public consultation and is open until 24 July, 2009.
For more information and to download the consultation documents, please click here.
The Government has launched its new water strategy for England, Future Water. The strategy sets out a framework for water management in England. This includes:
To view the strategy document please click here.
Sir Michael Pitt's interim report on the causes and consequences of the floods has now been published. The interim report contains urgent recommendations which Sir Michael believes should be implemented in order to minimise the impact of any flooding in the near future. It also maps out the direction for the remainder of the Review, and act as a consultation document prior to publication of the final document in the summer of 2008.
The review is now in a phase of consultation which will run until the end of March 2008. Please visit the cabinet office's dedicated web site to view the report and comment
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/flooding review
The new Sustainable Drainage News is now available to download. The floods of 2007 raised some serious concerns and many recommendations were made in the Pitt Review: lessons learned from the 2007 floods (Cabinet Office, 2008). As a result, many consultations and studies have been undertaken to improve surface water and flood risk management, including Defra’s Consultation on improving surface water drainage and work on surface water management plans. Supporting this new guidance documents such as PPS25: Development and flood risk – practice guide have been introduced. This edition of sustainable drainage news focuses on the regulatory outputs, consultations and development of guidance that is currently occurring within England.
Click here to download Issue 12 of Sustainable Drainage News
The Government's new strategy for flood and coastal erosion risk management (Making Space for Water) identified the need for an holistic, joined-up, and integrated approach to managing flood risk. One of the Making Space for Water projects is addressing integrated urban drainage management by funding 15 pilot projects to test new approaches to reduce the impact of urban drainage flooding.
Click here for more information on the project and its current status
The Local Authority Network on Drainage and Flood Risk Management (LANDFoRM) has now entered it's second year. This network has been set up to disseminate good practice, research outputs and policy relating to sustainable drainage and flood risk management to planners and operational staff within Local Authorities.
This network is free to join and access by any local authority planner or operative involved with the design and implementation of drainage or flood risk management systems.
Click here for more information and to register with the network and join the online forum where you will be able to share experiences and learn from fellow LAs.
CIRIA has developed an electronic forum for SUDS that will work like an electronic discussion board. The forum will provide practitioners with the opportunity to discuss sustainable drainage options and raise queries that can be discussed by the industry as a whole. To find instructions on how to join the forum please follow this link.
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