• 2 available credits
• Credits worth 0.55% points each
• Mandatory Element: No

Aim: To promote housing development in low flood risk areas, or to take measures to reduce the impact of flooding on houses built in areas with a medium or high risk of flooding.

* Supplementary guidance will be published by the Welsh Assembly Government to reflect planning policy and practice in Wales. The guidance which will not materially affect the aims and objectives of the Surface Water Run Off requirements of the Code, will be based on Technical Advice Note 15 (TAN 15) which supplements Planning Policy Wales, and surface management techniques currently in force in Wales.

Full SUR2 2010 Issue

• 2 available credits
• Credits worth 0.55% points each
• Mandatory Element: No

Aim:To encourage housing development in low flood risk areas, or to take measures to reduce the impact of flooding on houses built in areas with a medium or high risk of flooding.

Assessment Criteria: Mandatory Sur1 Elements must be achieved as stated in technical guide. Up to 2 Credits are available for further improving management of rainwater runoff.

Full SUR2 2009 Issue

Environment Agency Flood information

Environment Agency website

BS EN 752:2008 – Drain and sewer systems outside buildings

PPS 25 (Planning Policy Statement 25), “Development and flood risk”, ODPM (2006)

Additional information

ODPM. PPS 25 (Planning Policy Statement 25), “Development and flood risk”
A practice guide companion to PPS25, (2006)

Approved Document H Drainage and waste Disposal ODPM (2002)

BRE – Repairing flooded buildings: an insurance industry guide to investigation and
repair of flood damage to housing and small businesses

BRE Digest 365, “Soakaway design”, Building Research Establishment (1991)

BRE Good Repair Guide 11, “Repairing Flood Damage” Part 1–4, CRC Ltd, (1997)

CIRIA – Flood repair standards for buildings, 2005

CIRIA – New development and flood risk, 2005

DEFRA / Environment Agency. Preliminary rainfall runoff management for
developments. Flood and Coastal Defence R&D Programme. R&D Technical Report
W5-074/A/TR/1. Contractor HR Wallingford. August 2004

Development and flood risk, guidance for the construction industry, Lancaster et. al, CIRIA (2004)

Source control using constructed pervious surfaces (CIRIA publication C582)

Standards for the repair of buildings following flooding, C623, CIRIA (2005)

BS EN 12056-3: 2000, “Gravity drainage inside buildings – Part 3: Roof drainage,
layout and calculation”, British Standard Institute (2000)