New guidelines for the adoption of drainage assets including a wide range of SuDS components will provide clear, comprehensive guidance to facilitate the transfer of ownership and the maintenance responsibility of new sewerage assets. This will be a major overhaul of Sewers for Adoption Ed7. The revised document is due to be published on Effect…
The importance of trees as part of Sustainable Drainage Systems is becoming more widely understood and their delivery under the 4 pillars of SuDS – Quantity, Quality, Amenity and Biodiversity. Many SuDS schemes now include tree pits produced by companies like BlueGreen Urban producing off the shelf systems. Aside from Tree pits, trees can also…
Hull City Council and Yorkshire Water recently agreed on official binding rules regarding sustainable draining requirements. The joint initiative between a WaSC and a Local Authority – a UK first – aims to ease pressure on the city’s drainage network. Developers of new building schemes in Hull will have to reduce existing surface water run-off…
As co-organisers McCloy Consulting are delighted to announce the 2019 SuDSsource conference which is being held in Sheffield on the 15th May. The conference will consider SuDS innovation in the UK through the prism of design guidance, planning and evaluation. For those interested in attending the conference further details are outlined below. The Keynote speaker: Phil Chatfield – the ‘Architect…
Anthony McCloy and Robert Bray Associates will present an evening technical talk on Developing SuDS guidance to meet policy and legislation – an integrated approach to design and evaluation as part of an Engineers Ireland series of evening talks, on 7 November 2018 in Belfast. Click here for details!
SuDS have been integrated into developments in the UK since the mid 1990’s, yet they are still not mainstream. Many have citied the lack of any formalised route to adoption as being one of the primary reasons for the lack of uptake, along with the unknown requirements for maintenance, when compared with conventional piped drainage…