Land Drainage

(asked on 2nd May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to encourage greater use of soakaways.


This question was answered on 17th May 2018

We are now considering the responses to the consultation on the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework which closed on 10 May. The draft Framework incorporated December 2014’s written ministerial statement (HCWS 161) requiring Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in all major developments (e.g. 10 dwellings or more) unless there is clear evidence against their use. This is in addition to existing policy that expects developments (both major or minor) in flood risk areas to give priority to the use of SuDS. Planning guidance also sets out the kinds of sustainable drainage systems that should be considered according to a hierarchy of drainage options, with discharge into the ground being most favourable.

Reticulating Splines