United Utilities is working with housing developers to boost sustainable drainage levels. The first two SuDS systems adopted by United Utilities were built by Story Homes at developments in Carlisle and Wetheral, followed by a third system developed by Wrenman Strategic Land in Lancaster.

The National Infrastructure Commission is calling for a £12 billion investment in effective drainage measures to tackle surface water flooding in England and for water companies to play a key role in managing and investing in flood risk infrastructure.

Thames Water is providing £3.3 million in funding for 20 nature-based schemes to tackle flooding in London and the Thames Valley.

Severn Trent has met with the board representing local Mansfield businesses to share with them its exciting visualisations for its £76 million flood alleviation investment in the town.

Severn Trent is investing £76 million in Mansfield using community integrated sustainable urban drainage to alleviate the risk of flooding during storms, in a trial never seen to this scale in the UK before.

Norfolk County Council (NCC) is working with Anglian Water on a pilot project for small scale sustainable urban drainage systems in and around Norwich, Norfolk. 

This year’s keynote Landscape Institute conference will focus on landscape as infrastructure in the built environment and address how natural capital accounting will impact on the built environment professions.

MPs from the House of Commons cross-party Environment Food, and Rural Affairs Committee have criticised the Government’s sub-standard sustainable drainage (SuDS) approaches in a report published today.

Leading manufacturer of plastic piping and ventilation systems Polypipe Group has announced record performance driven by continued growth with the publication this morning of its final results for the year ended 31 December 2016.

The independent Committee on Climate Change(CCC) has warned MPs on the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee over the lack of information on critical infrastructure assets at risk of flooding in the UK.