FREE SUDS Training for Planners

DUNDEE - 21st (optional) & 22nd November 2007

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.

The course follows the format run over the past few years in collaboration with many Scottish Councils.

• The first day will be an optional day of visits to specific SUDS sites in Dundee .
• The second day will be a mix of lectures, discussion and case study working to give a real flavour of implementing SUDS systems from the Planners perspective.

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: A speaker from Scottish Water.
• The potential contribution of surface water management to the sustainability objectives of River Basin Management Planning: Sean Caswell of SEPA.

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