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Yorkshire schools SuDS partnership boosts flood resilience
05/09/2025 Schools are ideal for sustainable drainage systems as part of flood and storm overflow reduction strategies, says Lorna Davis, director, SuDSPlanter Ltd. |
DCN: Triple drainage board funding
29/01/2025 The District Councils' Network (DCN) has called on the Government to increase its funding to help local authorities struggling to pay drainage board levies. |
Work on Brighton rainscape gets under way
28/06/2024 Preparation work for a rainscape wetland area at a nature reserve near Brighton got under way this week. |
Devon CC to invest £12m in pothole and drainage works
13/05/2024 A new multi-million-pound investment in repairing potholes and boosting road drainage has been agreed by Devon council members. |
600,000 properties face flooding risk
29/11/2022 An estimated 600,000 properties face flooding in the near future without action to reduce urban runoff and improve drainage systems, research warns. |
A more holistic approach to tackling flood risk
21/11/2019 The only way to mitigate against flooding effectively is to understand how the whole, complex system works – not by making rules one development at a time, as Nick Fraser explains. |
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A thirst for water management
09/08/2018 Neill Robinson-Welsh explains how ‘smart’ non-potable water technology can simultaneously help mitigate flood and water stress. |
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UK’s first ‘drainspotter’ leaves gnomes as calling cards
19/10/2016 A Cornwall resident has photographed thousands of blocked drains in an attempt to prompt councillors into taking urgent action to unblock them. |
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Misconceptions over water maintenance funding need ‘debunking’, says association
05/08/2016 Clearer guidance needed on how to separate special water level management levy from councils’ annual budgets, drainage association says. |
