Environment secretary Hilary Benn was this week accused of “creating confusion” in his draft floods & water bill by focusing too much on above ground, soft sustainable drainage solutions (SUDS). … Developers prefer hard engineered solutions such as attenuation tanks, which can be buried beneath parking. But the Bill says hard SUDS solutions are suitable only where “space is very restricted” and then that they “may be part of the solutuion.” …



