‘WSUD in the UK’ article written by Sue Illman – president of the Landscape Institute in the UK
Water sensitive design: integrating water with urban planning
For too long we have been designing water out of our cities when we should have been designing it in.
In March this year, the Mayor of London and RoDMA announced a tender to create the UK’s largest floating village in London’s Royal Docks, on an area one and a half times the size of Green Park. Planners in Norwich, meanwhile, will be scrutinising plans submitted earlier this year for a rain square and flood park that aims to create 670 homes and new public spaces on a flood-prone site at the juncture of the Wensum and Yare rivers.
