Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 60362

Sewers

Tabled: 16 June 2025

Answered: 23 June 2025

Question

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

Emma Hardy

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...

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