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25 requires surface water management to be considered and run off controlled so providing opportunities for sustainable drainage technologies – proprietary and natural.
The imminent draft Floods and Water Bill will include some amendments to water supply regulations and, as its name clearly implies, will address the many issues of flooding, including surface water and flood risk management, flood mitigation and importantly where responsibilities for flood protection and maintenance requirements will lie. The government’s intention is to implement recommendations from the Pitt review and it is understood that Local Authorities and the Environment Agency will shoulder these responsibilities – but of course these extra responsibilities will require resources, expertise and finance. There is also the prospect of extending opportunities provided by PPS 25 to the supply and integration of proprietary and natural sustainable drainage technologies and systems into the wider remit of surface water and flood management.
economy’. The aim of the Code is to facilitate the delivery of a risk-based approach to regulation in which high- performing, compliant businesses bear less of a burden, and where regulators focus their efforts on rogue and higher- risk businesses. The need to monitor, measure and record all types of determinands is creating opportunities for innovation and innovative application of technologies from other industries.
The impact of continued development, the consequent increase in demand for
water and the water shortages in recent years (but not currently!) led to the Code for Sustainable Homes which rewards developers with higher ‘sustainability scores’ for houses designed to require less water from the supply network. It encourages rainwater collection and looks towards greywater reuse, which although individually are small scale opportunities, if widely applied a significant demand for systems could develop. The converse of excess water in the form of stormwater is influencing surface water management by developers. Planning Policy Statement
Allied to surface water management is resource protection and this is where the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and daughter Directives will have an impact. The prime target is to raise all water bodies, including groundwater, to the meet the Statutory Water Quality Objectives and this will necessarily require cleaner discharges derived from all walks of life. The demand for cleaner discharges has the potential to conflict with Hampton’s Better Regulation principles but this is being addressed as the Environmental Permitting Programme is being extended stepwise to bring a risk-based and coherent approach to discharge consenting. The development of generic “General Binding Rules” and whole-site discharge consents following a risk evaluation will streamline the consenting process for all from single dwelling treatment plants to large industrial dischargers.
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