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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.

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.

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.

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.

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