Sewers
Commons · Question 60362 · Tabled 16 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Manuela Perteghella
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for enacting Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 to (a) make sustainable drainage systems mandatory and (b) remove the automatic right t
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 23 Jun 2025
This Government is strongly committed to requiring standardised Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in new developments. These should be to designs that cope with changing climatic conditions as well as delivering wider water infrastructure benefits, offe...