The Delivering Environmental Benefits for Urban Communities Conference included a ‘show and tell’ symposium designed to meet the objectives of the Urban CaBA Sub-Group: 1) champion the Catchment Partnership approach to water management in urban areas; 2) support CaBA partnerships nationwide by helping them to build capacity, expertise and engage more effectively with stakeholders, communities, developers, funders and businesses, and 3) promote the benefits and raise awareness of partnership working in the urban environment. During this session practitioners, strategic planners and academics were given 5 minute slots to introduce their work/expertise and to signpost people to their resources or further information. These 'pitches' were divided into: 1) practical delivery of interventions; 2) strategic tools/approaches (incl. CBA, targeting, design/optioneering); 3) help and guidance for urban practitioners, and 4) engagement, communications and partnership working. Speakers will be invited to say what they have done, what their objectives were and what the outcome of the work was/is intended to be.
3. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Registration 09:30am
Welcome and plenary 10:15am
Best Practice Showcase
(6x five minute ‘pitches’ in each 30 minute section)
1) Engagement, communications & partnership working 10:30am
2) Strategic tools/approaches 11:00am
Tea & Coffee Networking Break 11:30am
3) Help and guidance for urban practitioners 12:00 midday
4) Practical delivery of interventions 12:30pm
Lunch 1:00pm
Morning Programme
6. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Ashley HoltAshley Holt
Optimising the delivery of
environmental benefits in
urban communities
9. 9
If we can broaden the offer, widen the circle of
interest we might:
• Leverage more joint action, which
• Increases potential access to funding and
aligned investment
This is especially relevant to support action in
urban environments where one of the obstacles is
multiple stakeholders and fragmented interests
10. “We can’t lead by vinegar; only by honey”*
10*Andrea Kelly, Broadland CP
12. 12
Please tell us any other reasons you value the rivers in the Wear
catchment/area’.
‘Is there anything preventing you from making more use of
rivers in the Wear catchment?’.
But real people say….
15. The question of scope..
15
• Who will benefit
• Who might contribute/ who might pay?
• How are the benefits distributed now?
• How might that distribution change as a
result of :
• Our proposals?
• Other projects and proposals?
Classification of benefits is a critical consideration
for building of a convincing business case and opens
up a number of relevant questions:
Have we got the right kinds of buckets and do the ones we
have enable, or constrain progress?
17. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Registration 9:30am
Welcome and plenary 10:15am
Best Practice Showcase
(6x five minute ‘pitches’ in each 30 minute section)
1) Engagement, communications & partnership working 10:30am
2) Strategic tools/approaches 11:00am
Tea & Coffee Networking Break 11:30am
3) Help and guidance for urban practitioners 12:00 midday
4) Practical delivery of interventions 12:30pm
Lunch 1:00pm
Morning Programme
18. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Shaun MaskreyShaun Maskrey
Building a community
understanding of flood risk
though participatory modelling
19. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Dave JohnsonDave Johnson
CaBA National Support:
mentoring, training, data &
evidence, tools and guidance
25. The role of mentoring?
Capacity
Trust
Confidence
Confidence:
•What are others doing?
•A sounding board
Trust:
• 3 questions in a row
•Look wider than the usual
suspects.
• Turn data into evidence.
Capacity:
• Six organisations on the
team and counting....
• Terms of Reference
• Regional hubs........
• If you can find match we
can do more......
Mentoring
Mentoring
10 X Catchment Delivery
26. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Kevin BartonKevin Barton
The ‘Host Community’
approach to retrofit SuDS:
adopting a holistic approach
27. SuDS for The Host
Community
A holistic approach to SuDS to encourage
community ‘buy-in’
Kevin Barton
Robert Bray Associates
@ikevinbarton
38. Australia Road
Community Park (with SuDS)
“Now we walk to school
because it’s nice”
“We actually turn up to
school pick‐up 10 minutes
earlier because we can chat
and hang around while the
children play”
“It’s brought the community closer
together because we are now
‘meeting’ people we’ve seen at the
school gate hundreds of times before
but never talked to”
“The teachers actually come
and sit out here in their lunch
– I can’t wait until next
summer because people will
be all over this place!”
“The kids LOVE it! My daughter does the wall
at least once every morning and afternoon!”
“We’re going to have a
Christmas Market out on the
plaza”
“It’s actually bringing children
in from other areas to the
playground”
39. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Polly BryantPolly Bryant
Using catchment partnership
volunteers to investigate
storm drains on the Hogsmill
45. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Helen SpringHelen Spring
De-mystifying SuDS:
engaging communities along
the culverted River Effra
46. The Lost Effra Project
Partnership working to create community owned SuDS
50. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Helen BattHelen Batt
Sourcing investment from
business to improve flood
defences, amenity & biodiversity
63. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Registration 9:30am
Welcome and plenary 10:15am
Best Practice Showcase
(6x five minute ‘pitches’ in each 30 minute section)
1) Engagement, communications & partnership working 10:30am
2) Strategic tools/approaches 11:00am
Tea & Coffee Networking Break 11:30am
3) Help and guidance for urban practitioners 12:00 midday
4) Practical delivery of interventions 12:30pm
Lunch 1:00pm
Morning Programme
64. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Jessica LamondJessica Lamond
Blue-Green Cities:
bringing naturally oriented
water cycles & amenity together
73. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Stuart KirkStuart Kirk
An ecosystem services
approach for the urban
water environment
74. An Ecosystem Services
Approach for the Urban
Water Environment
Stuart Kirk, Claire Johnstone, Ashley Holt
Nick Paling & Sarah Wigley
18 August 2015
75. ESSUWE Project (WT1580)
• It seeks to support the growing
number of stakeholder led urban
water / environment initiatives to
help deliver multiple benefits
• It is trialing the ecosystem services
approach as a means to help diverse
community groups and agencies
work together to better align their
efforts and resources to achieve more
coherent management of the water
environment to the benefit of all
‘Better together’ model
Bide and Cranston (2014)
76. Health + wellbeing
Prosperity / deprivation
Air quality
Flood risk
Recreation / leisure
Health + wellbeing
Prosperity / deprivation
Air quality
Flood risk
Recreation / leisure
Health + wellbeing
Prosperity / deprivation
Air quality
Flood risk
Recreation / leisure
CURRENT PROVISION / NEED / PRIORITY
Multiple Benefits?
2. WHERE is the
NEED and the
Greatest
OPPORTUNITY?
1. WHAT is the NEED?
Environmental Data
Socio-Economic and Health Data
78. ESSUWE Project Outputs
• A method to help identify opportunity areas
• A toolbox of interventions
• A cost-benefit framework (actively supported by the CaBA Benefits Assessment Sub-
Group.)
• A series of demonstration areas where the targeting and cost
benefit framework have been piloted.
• A set of communication & visualisation tools and a showcase
of best practice examples. This will include maps, audio-slides,
online materials and user-friendly, spatial decision-making tools
or applications
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/jweg and www.wrt.org.uk
79. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Paul ShafferPaul Shaffer
The Benefits of SuDS Tool
(BeST): an evaluation tool for
practitioners developing SuDS
80. Challenges
Photo: Luke Greysmith
• Support the delivery of SuDS
– New build
– Retrofit
• Funding and business models
key for retrofit
• Provide a common language
for stakeholders
• Need to support partnership
funding.
www.susdrain.org
www.susdrain.org/resources/best
81. BeST: Benefits of SuDS Tool
• Collation of evidence (values)
• Structured assessment
approach
• Considers confidence
• Support practitioners to
qualify and quantify
(monetise) benefits
• Compare drainage options
• Provision of detailed audit
trail
81
www.susdrain.org
www.susdrain.org/resources/best
82. Wide range of benefits
FinancialSocial
Regulating
Environmental
Supporting Provisioning
Cultural
Benefit category Monetised?
Air quality
Amenity
Biodiversity and ecology
Building temperature
Carbon reduction & sequestration
Crime
Economic growth
Education
Enabling development
Flexible infrastructure tbc
Flooding
Groundwater recharge
Health
Pumping wastewater
Rainwater harvesting
Recreation
Tourism
Traffic calming
Treating wastewater
Water quality 82
Triple bottom line
Ecosystem Services
84. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Patricia RicePatricia Rice
The Ecosystem Services
Transfer Toolkit: assessing the
effects of management actions
87. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Bryan CosgroveBryan Cosgrove
Green infrastructure for
water: taking a strategic
approach to targeting GI
91. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Bob BrayBob Bray
The ‘Host Community’
approach to retrofit SuDS:
adopting a holistic approach
92. The SuDS Audit
A guide to making SuDS evaluations
Bob Bray
Robert Bray Associates
93. The SuDS Audit
The Brief:
o A guide to the
SuDS possibilities
for sites
o An evaluation of
impact of rainfall on
sites
o Recommendations
of priority activities
94. The Strutts Centre, Belper
The Audit identifies flow routes and options for action
96. The Babington Hospital Site - Belper
The audit identified
sub-catchments and
flow routes to bypass,
where practical, the
sensitive sewer outfall.
97. The Barclay School, Stevenage
Flow routes identify primary risk due to overland flows
98. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Registration 9:30am
Welcome and plenary 10:15am
Best Practice Showcase
(6x five minute ‘pitches’ in each 30 minute section)
1) Engagement, communications & partnership working 10:30am
2) Strategic tools/approaches 11:00am
Tea & Coffee Networking Break 11:30am
3) Help and guidance for urban practitioners 12:00 midday
4) Practical delivery of interventions 12:30pm
Lunch 1:00pm
Morning Programme
99. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Peter BidePeter Bide
Planning advice & guidance
in support of integrated water
management
101. We have written an advice note to:
Provide a one-stop-shop to demystify water
management
Show how spatial planning can be part of
the catchment-based approach and secure
multiple benefits
Promote partnership working
Support the NPPF and national planning
guidance
Advice for planners
102. The advice note:
Sets out the issues which planners should be
aware of
Shows planners what is possible and the
benefits of integrating water issues into plans
Provides examples of what can be achieved
drawn from current best practice
Signposts other existing guidance
Planning advice for integrated
water management
106. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Paul ShafferPaul Shaffer
Susdrain: help & guidance
in the design, construction &
maintenance of SuDS
107. • Providing practitioners
information, guidance and
confidence
• Overcoming challenges of
delivery – busting myths
• Advocating SuDS can be
delivered anywhere
• Supporting the delivery of
multiple benefits through
good design
• Demonstrating what can be
achieved
Challenges
108. CIRIA & surface water management
• The SuDS manual (2007)
• Planning for SuDS - making it
happen (2010)
• Retrofitting to manage surface
water (2012)
• Susdrain (2012)
• WSUD in the UK (2013)
• Managing urban flooding from
heavy rainfall – encouraging the
design for exceedance (2014)
• Communicating and engagement in
local flood risk management (2015)
• Benefits of SuDS tool (BeST) (2015)
• The SuDS manual (next month)
109. www.ciria.org | www.susdrain.org
• Guidance
• Susdrain
• Website
• Face-to-face seminars
• Training
• SuDS introduction
• SuDS design
• SuDS evaluation
• Bespoke in-house training
• Advice and facilitation
• Consultation
• Engagement
Robert Bray Associates
Provision of support
117. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Rob CollinsRob Collins
The role of the Catchment
Based Approach (CaBA)
Urban Working Group
122. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Martyn EvansMartyn Evans
An Introduction to
Sustainable Drainage
Systems (SuDS) in Wales
123. An Introduction to
Sustainable Drainage Systems in Wales
Martyn Evans | Natural Resources Wales
martyn.evans@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
Environmental Benefits for Urban Communities
Conference and Workshop, Priory Rooms
22nd October 2015
124. An integrated approach
• Understanding natural systems
• Benefits for people, business and the environment
• Good design
• Delivering the right development in the right place
125. INCREASED
URBANISATION
Pentyrch, Cardiff
RAINFALL SEEN AS A
PROBLEM
Tongwynlais, Cardiff
FLOOD RISK
Llanberis, November 2012
CLIMATE
CHANGE
WETTER IN
WINTER…
POPULATION
GROWTH
Ecosystem Pressures
POLLUTION AND SEWERAGE
DISCHARGES
Gwenfro, Wrexham
DEGRADED HABITAT
AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS
… AND DRIER
IN SUMMER
UKCP09 (50%, 2080s)
126. A National Framework
• Interim SuDS Standards and Guidance for Wales
• Wales Water Strategy
- Implement SuDS
- Improve planning and management
- Support improved land management
- Reduction in water pollution
- Tackle diffuse pollution
• Wales Water Forum
• AMP 6
• Environment (Wales) Bill
• Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act
132. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Registration 9:30am
Welcome and plenary 10:15am
Best Practice Showcase
(6x five minute ‘pitches’ in each 30 minute section)
1) Engagement, communications & partnership working 10:30am
2) Strategic tools/approaches 11:00am
Tea & Coffee Networking Break 11:30am
3) Help and guidance for urban practitioners 12:00 midday
4) Practical delivery of interventions 12:30pm
Lunch 1:00pm
Morning Programme
133. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Katherine CauserKatherine Causer
Green infrastructure
solutions to urban water
issues – Street Trees Project
145. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Andy GrahamAndy Graham
Sustainable drainage
systems (SuDS): delivering
for people & wildlife
156. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
John BrewingtonJohn Brewington
The Birmingham Urban
Demonstrator: turning the
vision into reality
158. Controlled for circulation only
158
UK Urban Demonstrator – Birmingham
A community scale, living laboratory to demonstrate the practicality
and societal benefits of integrated water management
Within Buildings Gardens Streets + Shared space
• Green Roofs
• Rainwater harvesting
• Grey water reuse
• Water efficiency devices
• Energy efficiency devices
• Smart Meters
• Flood resilient buildings
• Downpipe disconnection
• Rain gardens
• Water butts/tanks
• Porous paving
• Driveway de‐paving
• Intelligent rainwater harvesting
• Tree planters and rain gardens
• Swales, ponds and wetlands
• Porous paving
• Surface water separation + reuse
• Improved river corridor
• Smart sewers
• Community FOG traps
The project will deliver
1. Physical changes – to buildings and streets
2. Customer engagement and behavioural
change programme
3. Independent testing facilities and technology
showcase
160. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Paul ChapmanPaul Chapman
A Local Government
approach to what drives river
restoration: Lewisham example
165. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Chris GardnerChris Gardner
A weir removal & re-
meandering project in a highly
urban setting in South London
169. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Julie WozniczkaJulie Wozniczka
Raingardens & Sustainable
drainage in the Soar:
‘the river starts here’
177. www.trentriverstrust.org
Planting
• Carefully designed planting scheme
• Cost of plants
• Source plants
• Community involvement, partnership working
Learning:
Determine the plant budget and ongoing resource for
maintenance as early as possible
Volunteer donations = lots of project management
From this stage, it’s a garden! You might have to do a lot of
watering, and then weeding to keep your plants alive!
181. Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
Conference & Workshop
Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities
The Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015
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