FREE SUDS Training for Planners

The Urban Water Technology Centre, in association with the Improvement Service, is pleased to present the first of several SUDS training events developed specifically for Planners who need to pilot different types of solutions to flooding and SUDS issues through the planning process.

Key Issues which will be covered in the course are;

•  Surface water catchment management and its relationship to physical planning; progress in practice.

•  The concepts of strategic catchment management planning including stakeholder engagement.

•  Drainage Assessment Guidance: its role in design and regulation.

•  Best practice guidance on the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of SUDS and effective implementation of SUDS within developments.

•  Sewerage asset management and strategic surface water management.

•  The potential contribution of surface water management to the sustainability objectives of River Basin Management Planning.

Date: 27th February 2008

Venue: The Upper Gallery, The RSE Scotland Foundation, 22-26 George St. , Edinburgh , EH2 2PQ

Location Map: http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/rooms/map.pdf

Cost: FREE

Booking Form:  Booking Form