Deeproot Blog: Green Infrastructure for Your Community – blog and articles: Green Streets have become a more common feature of the urban landscape in cities and towns across the United States and abroad. And for good reason: they provide substantial value in community aesthetics, redevelopment, livability and environmental compliance. You may know from personal experience […]
New Orleans SUDS … According to an 18 July 2016 article in The New Orleans Advocate, New Orleans is about to embark on a $115 million, three-year project to upgrade drainage in eight neighbourhoods, the largest effort to date to enact new strategies focused on retaining – rather than immediately pumping out – rainwater. While […]
susdrain Plans unveiled for UK’s largest sustainable urban drainage network An ambitious project cut the amount of clean rainwater contaminated in sewers is set to be launched this summer on the site of one London’s biggest affordable housing schemes. Rainwater landing on an area the size of 20 football pitches will be channelled back into […]
Last week this blog covered four articles on Cities and Water: Flooding, Green Infrastructure, SuDS, Resilience, Awareness & Climate change. This week another four case studies from Richard Ashley highlighting the way cities across the world a reframing and transforming the urban environment to meet the challenges of water, flooding and climate change in a […]
Thanks to Richard Ashley for these four articles Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe 2016 — Transforming cities in a changing climate EEA Report No 12/2016 This report builds on and complements existing products and initiatives on urban adaptation in Europe. It focuses on the state of actions in the field and progress achieved […]
Alex Stephenson Market Development Director, Hydro International (12 Jul 2016) ‘If you asked a developer, a planning officer and a consulting engineer for a definition of SuDS, do you think you would get the same answer? I have a suspicion that their answers might well be significantly different. In a recent parliamentary inquiry into future […]
‘CIWEM has partnered with the ICE, RIBA, Landscape Institute, RTPI, WWT and Susdrain to assist the Government’s review on sustainable drainage in England. We hope to collect some objective data and practical examples of SuDS implementation by engaging with professionals working across the flooding, development, planning, design and drainage community. We also hope to identify what we […]
Bruce Horton: The Housing and Planning Bill also completed its progress through Parliament and is now an Act. It requires the government to review SuDS planning policy and councils to create registers of brownfield land with automatic planning consent. However, the final Act stops short of the amendments called for by CIWEM and others, including […]