Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 311
Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
Water management practices that manage surface water at source by storing or reusing it, decreasing flow rates to watercourses and improving water quality.
SuDS are a sequence of water management practices that seek to alleviate the problems associated with hard and paved surfaces in urban environments, by storing or re-using surface water at source, thereby decreasing flow rates to watercourses and improving water quality.
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