ground level’

Beverley Park Kirkcaldy, designed by Water Gems

Place making and SUDS in Scotland A plan for change

Julie Waldron City of Edinburgh Council

Ratho , Edinburgh

The same again.........

What is happening now in Scotland ? All 32 councils have been requested to agree to the Section 7 arrangement • Councils will maintain above ground

SUDs • Scottish Water will maintain

underground SUDs. • SUDS for SW means up to the 1:30

SUDS serving public

Water from Roofs and Hardstanding - Public water - WEWS Act 2003 –Scottish Water responsible for all public SUDS But can impose conditions on design standards Water from Public Roads going into SUDS – responsibility of Council Water from private premises and private car parks within curtilage going into SUDS – the responsibility of the landowner Section 7 agreement Council bring in roads water to the system

The Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC ( WFD) European Flood Directive , 2007. Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 ( WEWS). The Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (CAR).

CAR licences General Binding Rules 10 and 11

The Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968[8] outlined in Section 7 of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968.

SPP - Scottish Planning Policy PAN 61 Planning and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems PAN 79 Water and Drainage. Guidance CIRIA c 753 Water Assessment and Drainage Assessment Guide Suds for Road

Creating Places –

a policy statement on Architecture and Place for Scotland 2013

Our vision is a Scotland where quality places support our communities, respect our environment, drive our economy and reflect our identity as a modern, forward-facing nation. It is the commitment of this Government, and the ambition of this policy statement, to create places where people prosper

In a challenging economic climate, we should not

question whether we can afford to deliver good design. Instead, we should ask, can we afford not to? Good design is not a costly, aesthetic layer to be added at the conclusion of an enterprise.

Good design is a process that uses creativity and

innovation to deliver the best outcomes.

Green Infrastructure - Design and Place making ( 2011)

Green Infrastructure Distinctive

Create unique design features

Using unique design features For example, not only can SUDS, buffer strips and innovative landscapes help address flooding, they can form water features, adding a lot to the design and feel of a place, creating attractive, tranquil settings for development.

Designing Places (2001)

• Welcoming • Distinctive • Safe and Pleasant • Easy to move around • Resource Efficient • Adaptable

Welcoming Distinctive Safe and Pleasant Easy to move around Resource Efficient Adaptable

Creative / Innovative/ People/ Multi-functional

Money

Sewers for Scotland

Lowest common denominator

• Does not prevent great design but allows for poor design

• Valuation by surveyors - land is valued with space for a 1:4 basin which gives rise to a developable land area

• Prescribes design as opposed explains constraints

• It provides diagrams which were never meant to be built

National SUDS working party group

• Joined at Landscape Institute Representative • Biodiversity duty • Add in SNH • Workshop with Scottish Water last Spring • Influence the next Sewers for Scotland • Add in conveyance swales • Alter tone of document - trust the designers • Get landscape architects involved

Pulling together

Is every place the same ?

• High sensitivity - residential

• Low sensitivity -

• Industrial - logistics centre

Queensferry - an exact copy

Industrial estate or housing site ?

Educate the public by clever use of hardworks details

Enjoy your Rain Garden - keep the water flowing

What is the road map? Landscape Architects and Planners understand - Context

Landscape Architects are expert in context within the landscape

Actions for Change

One - Expect Team Work Two - Add conveyance swales

Three – take out the plans Four - Introduce 1:6/8 for sensitive

landscapes e.g residential Five - Define the constraints remove

prescriptions

What can you do ?

• Request conveyance swales • Change your design guidance to 1:6/8 and

refuse planning applications • Request risk assessments to be submitted by

developer • Get signage designed within planning

applications • Remember grass cuttings block outlets

Workshop

• A new name Sewers for Scotland

• Design a standard national interpretation panel designed all SUDS areas : dry basin, pond, swale for presentation at the next SUDSWP meeting.

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