The UK’s most comprehensive SuDS guidance is released to support uptake, manage floods and create better places and spaces. As the UK moves into winter, potentially a time of greater flood risk as seen during the 2013-2014 winter, CIRIA has launched the most comprehensive industry SuDS manual available in the UK. This guidance focuses on…
The Practice Guidance for the (English) Non-Statutory Technical Standards is now available to assist Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs), developers and consultants in the inclusion of sustainable drainage within development proposals and considerations for planning applications. The Practice Guidance is supported and produced by LASOO, The Local Authority SuDS Officer Organisation. You can download a…
Anthony has been invited to host a seminar at Flood Expo entitled ‘Surface Water Flooding – Integrated Catchment Approach to Resolution’. The seminar will run 2.45 -3.15pm on Wednesday 15th October within the Floodtech Seminar Hall. The seminar will be CPD certified and numbers may be limited so arrive early to avoid disappointment.
We are looking forward to meeting clients and colleagues alike at the Flood Expo in ExCeL, London on 14th and 15th October 2015. Feel free to call at our stand F408 over the course of what promised to be an informative two day event to meet our staff and find out more about our expert modelling…
The Department of the Environment has on 28 September 2015 published the Strategic Planning Policy Statement for Northern Ireland, that will ultimately replace all individual planning policy statements (including PPS15 Planning and Flood Risk). The SPPS sections relating to flood risk are broadly similar in policy direction to PPS15…there will now be a transitional period…
From September 2015 the Environment Agency will be making LIDAR data accessible to all users free of charge, even for commercial use. Two LIDAR datasets will be released under the Open Government Licence and made accessible through Datashare. Tiled LIDAR data: This dataset consists of historic LIDAR data which has been gathered since 1998. For…
With the SuDS industry in the UK still in a state of transition due to recent changes in legislation introduced in April 2015; Anthony sheds some light on what the changes actually mean for the rest of us from the experiences that McCloy Consulting are gathering through collaborative working with Local Authorities throughout England. The…
Anthony has written a paper entitled “A relook at how we attenuate runoff for Brownfield and retrofit sites”, which has been accepted for oral presentation at the SUDSnet 2015 International Conference at the Techno-Centre in Coventry on the 3rd & 4th September 2015. It promises to be an informative event which will showcase latest academic…
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency has issued revised regulatory fees and charges schemes for 2015/2016. The Processing Discharge Consent Applications and the Regulation of Discharges under the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and the Processing Licence Applications under the Water Abstraction and Impounment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 have both been updated. To view other regulatory…
On 15 April Lead Local Flood Authority will become a statutory consultee and will be required to provide technical assessments of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) on major developments (10+properties). In considering planning applications, local planning authorities (LPAs) will be required to consult with the Lead Local Flood Authority on the management of surface water. In…