Description: This book provides guidance on how water-related issues may be considered within the land use planning process. It details the wide range of stakeholders, policies, processes and guidance that exist to foster sustainable water management.

Many of the policies, processes and guidance are relatively recent, and as planners become more aware of the issues and they are more fully addressed in local plans, the links between water management and land use planning should improve. Nevertheless, there is still scope for improving sustainable water management through better collaboration between the stakeholders involved.

This book aims to help this process by providing information on sustainable water management and identifying the linkages to planning policy. It also suggests how the stakeholders can work to further sustainable water management within the land use planning process both appropriately and efficiently.

Keywords: water quality, urban drainage, water infrastructure, water resources, sewerage, sustainable resource use

Contents: Acknowledgements, Executive summary, Glossary, Abbreviations, 1 Introduction, 1.1 Scope, 1.2 What is sustainable water management?, 1.3 The relationship between sustainable water management and the land use planning system (England and Wales), 1.4 Planning bill, 1.5 Structure of the guidance, 1.6 How to use the guidance, 2 Stakeholders, 3 Planning processes, 3.1 The land use planning system in England and Wales, 3.2 Water resources planning, 3.3 Waste water planning, 4 Process interactions, 4.1 Interaction between Environment Agency planning and land use planning processes, 4.2 Interaction between water company planning and land use planning processes, 4.3 Interaction between developers' planning and land use planning processes, 5 Planning issues, 5.1 Introduction, 5.2 Challenge 1: meeting all stakeholder interests, 5.3 Challenge 2: addressing the uncertainties, 5.4 Challenge 3: timing issues, 5.5 Challenge 4: management at a catchment scale, 5.6 Challenge 5: education, communication and integrated planning, 6 Guidance, 6.1 Introduction, 6.2 Guidance for land use planners, 6.3 Guidance for the Environment Agency, 6.4 Guidance for water and wastewater service providers, 6.5 Guidance for housebuilders and developers, 7 Recommendations, Appendices: Appendix A Stakeholders, Appendix B Planning policies: guidance and good practice, Appendix C Case studies, Appendix D Stakeholder web addresses, References