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Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and Green & Blue Infrastructure (GBI)

Useful Guidance

Nature-based Solutions to the Management of Rainwater and Surface Water Runoff in Urban Areas Water Sensitive Urban Design Best Practice Interim Guidance Document prepared by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (2021)
SUDS Interim Guidance

Blue Green Infrastructure (BGI) and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Framework prepared by RSES (Section 6 Catalogue of Nature Based Solutions and Section 7 Catalogue of Case Studies which are based on characteristics of sites is very useful)

Southern Regional Assembly

SUDS Manual 2015 CIRIA

Draft Limerick City and Environs Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy

Dublin City Council Sustainable Drainage Design and Evaluation Guide 2021  Appendix 11, 12 & 13 of the Draft Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 gives A Technical Summary of Dublin City Council Green and Blue Roof Guide (2021), A Technical Summary of Dublin City Council Sustainable Drainage Design and Evaluation Guide (2021) and gives an overview of Surface Water Management Guidance  
Draft Dublin City Development Plan Appendices

Dublin City Council Green & Blue Roof Guide 2021

South Dublin City Council; Sustainable Drainage Explanatory Design & Evaluation Guide 2022

South Dublin City Council; A Householder’s Guide to the Management of Sustainable Drainage (SUDS), Managing rainwater more naturally in Dublin

Better Home & Garden: How to Make a Simple Rain Garden to Solve Storm Water Problems

Living Roofs and Walls - from policy to practice - 10 years of urban greening in London and beyond (2019)

Guidance Paper For Dublin Draft guidelines for DCC to develop planning directives for the incorporation of Green Roofs in new development (2008)

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has a mandatory policy on green roofs embedded within its County Development Plan.

Other relevant links & guides:
Soakways: What are they & How to Build Them
Soakway Design (DG 3665 - 2016) Provides methodology for chambers or trenches that allow soakaway to ground that allow infiltration to the ground through their base and sides and incorporate below ground storage (Note: porous permeable ground of sufficient depth needed)
Copenhagen Climate Adaptation Plan modelling 2012 – 2020: Copenhagen Cloudburst Management Plan
U.K. Raingarden Guide 
Designing Raingardens, a Practical Guide 
Slow the Flow UK project funded by insurance companies
Tree Pits - Stockholm System

Case Studies
Cork South Docks Regeneration Project
Kellystown Masterplan
Kimberley Road, Greystones – footpath renewal project
Sheffield Grey to Green Project
London Olympic Park
Greener Grangetown, Cardiff
Sovereign Square, Leeds
Mardyke Gardens, Cork
Father Collins Park, Dublin
Salford Wetlands
Bridgewater Basin, Manchester
 

 

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and Green & Blue Infrastructure (GBI)
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and Green & Blue Infrastructure (GBI)

WCCComhairle Contae Loch Garman
Wexford County Council

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