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In CIWEM’s view, SUDS address all those challenges, many of them simultaneously if they are designed well. It says that the Government’s recently introduced national standards for sustainable drainage systems set out good practice design requirements for such multifunctional SUDS, but that until there is a mandatory approach, as recommended by the Pitt Review following the floods of summer 2007, it believes that there will be no change. It argues forcefully for a mandatory approach to SUDS for major developments and an end to the automatic right to connect. With those few remarks, I beg to move.