Are Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) a Must-Have for Your Construction Project?

Planning a construction project? Have you factored sustainable drainage (SuDS) into your designs? If not, you could find yourself up to your neck… not just in floodwater, but red tape too. Planning authorities in England and Wales are increasingly demanding to see drainage strategy documents as part of their validation criteria. And that means ignoring the drainage requirements on your development could incur costly delays. Can you afford to overlook SuDS?

Why is SuDS such a dealbreaker for planning authorities?

Whether you’re a veteran developer or a homeowner looking to make changes to your property, planning authorities are now paying more attention to the environmental impact of your construction proposals.

Without clear evidence of this in a planning proposal, your project won’t get the green light to proceed. However, SuDS Designs is an efficient planning service which can save you time and money for drainage reports, and all important SuDS strategies. Our primary service to discharge planning conditions, and if involved early enough; reduce the condition burden in the first place. We provide a quick and predictable planning service, as repercussions of not providing the correct information leads to delays in validation, checking, and ultimately the approval of your project.

Required levels of information differ with size and type of application, and further information requests are always possible to address site specific requirements or issues. And, of course, guidelines regularly change and evolve. At SuDS Designs we know that consistency is key, and our diverse experience with planning authorities across the country has allowed us to develop our information to a coherent report which significantly reduces the costs involved.

We're backed by JMS Engineers

We are backed by JMS Engineers: a civil and structural engineering consultancy with a network of offices across the country. From this network we can access local engineers to all projects and can also offer a complete consultancy package, including preliminary assessments and flood risk, to planning work and reporting, to detailed design.

In short, it’s a confusing process, and there are many reasons your application could be rejected, even if your drainage designs are watertight. Failing to meet requirements in your application will leave you scrambling to resubmit, with the clock ticking, costs rising, and your own valuable time wasted.

We offer the simplest and swiftest way to take water worries out of your project planning. Cut out the prospect of delays, derailed plans and spiralling costs. Contact us about your SuDS report today.