Flooding concerns threaten to derail plans to build a new Lidl supermarket in Didcot. Didcot Town Council has said it is “surprised” by the flood risk assessment in the budget supermarket’s bid to ...

Even where SuDS are installed by more progressive developers, they tend to be what Peberdy describes as “bomb craters”—picture an empty swimming pool lined with grass, and two concrete inflow channels ...

• Delays relating to statutory consultee responses and SuDS Approval Bodies (SABs). • Under-resourced Local Planning Authorities (LPAs). • No requirement for councils to calculate a housing land ...

A company has submitted additional information and amended plans to a planning application for 1,450 new homes between Ansty and Cuckfield.

Set within its attractive landscape, the development will feature tree planting, swales, SUDs basins and play-along-the-way features. In addition, Barratt and David Wilson Homes North East will be ...

A developer has started to carry out assessments on former farmland and orchards set to become 135 “much-needed” affordable homes. The six-hectare site in Swanstree Avenue, Sittingbourne, has ...

In Cork’s Glanmire, a SUDS retrofit along the Glashaboy Riverhas tamed a flood hotspot. Since 2018, swales, detention basins, and permeable paving have slashed local runoff by 40%, sparing homes ...

There were also issues with the SuDS, as some swales lead directly to pipes, but these have been resolved. Initial concerns about surveillance were improved with a revised layout.

The project, which also involves Portsmouth, includes sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), such as rain gardens, swales, and permeable surfaces, to slow rainwater flow into sewers.

Roberta Susan Swales, 73, of Parkersburg, passed away March 2, 2025, at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV. She was born in Hibbing, MN, on Jan. 27, 1952, a daughter of the late Charles ...

Highway swales are ditches that collect and carry runoff during rainstorms, providing modest pollutant removal. Traditional turfgrass linings in swales are not effective in areas with shallow ...