Highlights of the IGNITION project

Since 2019, the IGNITION project has explored how Greater Manchester can accelerate the delivery of urban nature-based solutions to build a climate resilient city-region. Supported by the Urban Innovations Actions Fund, the project brought together twelve partners from local government, universities, NGOs and business to develop pathways to accelerate public-private investment nature-based solutions.

One strand of the project focused on collaborative investment approaches to tackling urban surface water flooding by:

• Identifying hotspots for multi-partner investment in urban SuDS retrofit
• Piloting the development of an urban SuDS neighbourhood including:
• Developing conceptual SuDS designs
• Modelling potential benefits to receiving sewer networks and surface water flood risk
• Estimate of likely scheme costs
• Building a multi-partner business case
• Testing a replicable methodology for the adaptation of sewer models to represent SuDS.

This webinar, hosted by CIRIA's susdrain community, presented an overview of the IGNITION project and provided a deep dive into the SuDS neighbourhood pilot focusing on the planning, modelling and impact evaluation of retrofit SuDS neighbourhood in Walkden, Salford. Learn about the IGNITION evidence repository of existing and emerging evidence on the performance and potential economic, environmental and social benefits and Living Lab at the University of Salford.