Month: July 2026

Under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) regulations, only 16% of rivers in England are classed as achieving good or high ecological status. In comparison, this value is 29% in Northern Ireland, 43% in Wales, and 57% in Scotland. The …

SuDS (Sustainable Drainage Systems) are replacing traditional urban pipe only systems and bring together water, landscape and people. But on many constrained development sites, the drive to make drainage hydraulically fail-safe is having the opposite effect: pushing designs towards large, …