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Water-resilient places - surface water management and blue-green infrastructure: policy framework
This paper outlines how surface water is currently managed in Scotland, sets out a vision for the future and describes the components that should be brought together to form a coherent framework that will support delivery of water resilient places.
Annex 2: Legislation, Regulations and Guidance
There are multiple pieces of legislation, regulation and guidance relevant to water management including:
- Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (as amended)
- Local Government Scotland Acts 1973 and 1994
- Control of Pollution Act 1974 (as amended)
- Roads (Scotland) Act 1984
- Environment Act 1995
- Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997
- Building (Scotland) Acts 2003, together with the relevant technical standards
- The Water Environment & Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003
- Planning (Scotland) Act 2019
- Sewers for Scotland (4th Edition) 2018
- Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009
- Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011
- The development planning and development management process
- The National Planning Framework (NPF) (currently NPF3 soon to be NPF4)
- Scottish Planning Policy (SPP)
- Planning Advice Notes on Flooding, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems, Water and Drainage and Designing Streets
- SuDS for Roads 2010
- The SuDS Manual (C753) 2015
- Water Assessment and Drainage Assessment Guide 2016
- SUDS regulatory method - WAT-RM-08 (SUDSWP)
- SUSDRAIN
Contact
Email: waterindustry@gov.scot
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