March was a busy month for SuDS+ and the innovation team. Innovation forms a key part of the SuDS+ process. Our partners, Isle Utilities, recently

  New staff and PhD students join the SuDS+ team from Teesside University to help deliver our monitoring work package Ammara Laeeq is an experienced

We need your help! This is an exciting opportunity to participate and engage in solving some of the challenges faced by Sustainable Drainage Solutions –

Following our community vote we can confirm the three sites which have been passed to the implementation team for further work. Voting took place via

Our three litter picks in February helped to remove rubbish from 3 sites in the study area thanks to community volunteers and project partners. The

The SuDS+ project features as a case study in a report recently published by the Institution of Environmental Sciences. Caitlin Rogers, Mark Davinson, Ed Rollason

In a break from the winter weather Stanley The Raindrop was able to download the data from our rain gauges. The logger within the gauge

Our first volunteer events for 2024 have been planned. We would like to encourage as many people as possible to take part, find out more

The SuDS+ visioning phase is now complete as efforts focus on bringing community-led ideas to life. What did we do in 2023? 2023 was all

Our SuDS+ team met with 24 innovation projects during a two-day annual Flood and Coastal Innovation Programme (FCRIP) get-together. SuDS+ is part of a wider

The heavy rain between Christmas and New year gave us an ideal opportunity to check the progress of our wetland and leaky dams at the

As part of the Stanley SuDS monitoring work package Stanley The Raindrop has this week installed 3 rain gauges. The rain gauges will measure precipitation

Look out for our leaflet dropping through your door in the next couple of weeks. Use the QR code to vote for the best idea

SuDS+ held their first virtual Innovation Forum at the end of September. In addition to an update on community engagement in SuDS+ the forum also

Over the past few weeks our Engagement team met with various departments from Durham County Council to: Discussions have surfaced many useful strategies and datasets

At the recent IWA Young Water Professionals Conference in Birmingham Caroline from ARUP was able to give a presentation on the SuDS+ project and the

Staff and volunteers from the Wear Rivers Trust re-joined a wetland to the Stanley Burn last week. The inlet had become blocked with debris and

Our volunteering activities have started again. Visit the get involved page for the latest news. A great chance to get involved. It will also help

Last week the SuDS+ project partners met for two days to reflect on our progress to date, plan moving forwards and play with all the

Northumbria University shared the SuDS+ project during the ‘British Hydrological Society Peter Wolf Symposium’, which took place on 26th-27th June 2023 at Newcastle University. The

Do you know somewhere which floods? Can you pin point it on our map? We want to know more about the areas which flood in

Thanks to everyone who helped us map the locations residents would like to see improved. The community got right behind the idea and identified 383

Take a look at our image gallery. Can you spot your idea from the May workshops? Areas for improvement mapping information to follow in the

Thanks to everyone who attended our engagements sessions last week. The SuDS+ Team hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. We are also

Sign up is now available for our May workshops. See the Get Involved page for more details.

Stanley the Raindrop has added up all of the votes and the results are in! Thanks to everyone who took part in last months engagement

In the next few weeks we need your views to shape our project. Visit our info points at local community venues to tell us which