2019 Speakers & Presentations
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Introduced by Bob Bray
Phil Chatfield – Keynote speaker
Recently retired after 10 years with the Welsh Government, Phil Chatfield was responsible for implementation of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 Schedule 3 in Wales in January 2019. His 25 years’ work with SuDS included chairing the National SuDS Working Group (for England) and involvement with the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 Schedule 3 team, and development of the CIRIA SuDS Manuals.
SuDS – still plenty to do
This presentation considers development of SuDS policy in the UK from the early 1990s, the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 and Schedule 3 implementation in Wales, including lessons learned along the way and the continuation of some common SuDS myths.
EXPERIENCES OF SUDS ACROSS THE UK – Chair: Roger Nowell
Helen McHollan – Illman Young
Beyond the surface water review – a review of SuDS by LLFAs
Hilary Ellis – Cambridgeshire County Council LLFA
A CIWEM member, Hilary Ellis has worked in flood risk management for almost 10 years, across public, private and third-sector organisations including EU funded research programmes and post-graduate study into the opportunities and barriers for SuDS implementation. She is the County Council’s Principal Drainage Officer having led development of a cross-district Flood and Water Supplementary Planning Document.
The English Experience
Clive Moon – Vale of Glamorgan Council
Clive Moon works as an Engineering Manager for the Vale of Glamorgan Council, delivering various flood and coastal risk management functions and the SuDS Approving Body enacted in January this year.
The Wales Experience
This presentation provides a summary of experiences working for a Welsh LLFA and SAB following the implementation of Schedule 3. Three months after the legislation came into force it examines what has changed and the remaining challenges in delivering the multiple benefits of well designed, implemented and maintained SuDS?
Nick Bowen – Ian White Associates
Nick Bowen CMLI is a Landscape Architect and Director of Ian White Associates Landscape Architects in Stirling. A member of the Scottish Green Infrastructure Forum, he is keenly interested in SuDS, which form a key constituent in the work of his practice, spanning masterplanning, detailed design and delivery.
SuDS in Scotland – challenges & new developments
This presentation explores the challenges to creating the wonderful, multi-functional, rain-guzzling landscapes that we need. It asks why so many new schemes appear to pay little heed to design guidance and best-practice examples and how we might find a way to deliver on the promise of SUDS at last, an area in which Scotland made so much of the early running.
RESEARCH AND EXEMPLAR SITES – Chair: George Warren
Anthony McCloy – McCloy Consulting
Anthony McCloy is Managing Director of McCloy providing consultancy services to both public and private clients. As a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of Engineers Ireland, he regularly speaks at conferences and seminars, provides university lectures, delivers national SuDS training workshops and has contributed to national and local SuDS guidance.
Assessing interception losses and implications for SuDS design
This presentation considers the factors which have the ability to influence interception losses, drawing upon monitoring outputs from a scheme in London. It will also reflect upon how losses are normally represented within design and how current approaches could be adapted in the future to make allowance for losses as part of the SuDS design process.
Richard Kellagher – HR Wallingford
Richard Kellagher is a Technical Director at HR Wallingford and has been involved in drainage and SuDS research for over 30 years.
He is the author of several guidance documents and a co-author of both CIRIA SuDS Manuals, as well as creator of the www.uksuds.com website. His research work led to the current design criteria for stormwater management on development sites and he created the TSRsim rainfall tool for generating extreme rainfall time series.
Insights into volume management
This presentation provides a high level overview of what we do now and the basis for doing this, and whether current storage design is effective. It includes suggestions as to what might be a smarter approach: meeting the challenges we face requires a radical change now in how we design drainage systems for developments.
Zac Tudor – Sheffield City Council
Working at Sheffield City Council for over 20 years, Principal Landscape Architect Zac Tudor has had responsibility for major public realm project delivery from inception to completion of projects on site. His focus continues to be the multi-functional benefits of landscape design in streets and public spaces, while helping encourage economic regeneration in the City.
Sustainable Water Management in our cities –
retrofitting SUDS into multifunctional streets and spaces
This presentation considers Sheffield’s approach to designing and building its streets and public spaces to encourage future development, as well as building the city’s resilience to climate change.
INTEGRATING SUDS – Chair: Chris Hodson
Sarah Boyd – Eastleigh Borough Council
Having worked at the Environment Agency, the RSPB, an environmental consultancy and in the aggregates industry, Sarah Boyd has been the Ecologist at Eastleigh Borough Council, Hampshire for nearly a year.
Planning and SuDS: a council ecologist’s experience
This presentation shares her experience to date within the Council as an internal consultee in the planning process in relation to SuDS. It provides an insight into various discussions about SuDS design with developers seeking planning permission for various development schemes.
Kevin Barton – Robert Bray Associates
Kevin is a Landscape Architect with over 23 years experience in private practice now specialising solely in SuDS design at Robert Bray Associates. Kevin is passionate about the environment and creating beautiful, meaningful and useful places for people and wildlife.
Having developed sustainable approaches to landscape design, he now employs SuDS to create dynamic landscapes that deliver another layer of green-space multi-functionality and sustainability through the creative management of rainfall whilst supporting the needs of host communities.
SuDS as part of urban design