The latest news and blogs from the world of Slow The Flow, this page is updated regularly with a range of topical articles.
Source Partnership Report Spring 2020
The Spring edition of the Source Partership Report is available here. Download here.
Harnessing the power of nature to reduce flood risk
This week, the government published its policy statement on flood and coastal erosion risk management https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-policy-statement This £5.2 billon pound investment over the six year period between 2021 and 2027
Hardcastle Crags SuDS Car Park
Upgrade of existing car park to incorporate Sustainable Drainage principle at National Trust site, Hebden Bridge. Works completed Spring 2020 Design and implementation Our old car park at Clough Hole
Shoebroad Dam Todmorden
The topography and geology of the Calder Valley renders it susceptible to flooding, compacted subsoils overlying impermeable clays soils result in rapid run off during extended periods of rainfall which is
Summer 2020
Welcome to our Summer 2020 Slow The Flow newsletter, enabling you to see at a glance what we have been doing in the last few months & giving you easy
Birks Court Case Study
What? 6 new bungalows Where? Walsden, Todmorden When Completed March 2019 Design and implementation For the construction of the access roads, gardens and surface water collection for the 6 new
Urban Pond
We created a wildlife pond in a shady and rocky area of our garden May 2020. We live in a 1930’s semi-detached house in Halifax. Design and implementation We decided
Log store modular green roof using square guttering
What?: Converting the ugly roof of a log store into a green roof. Where?: Terraced house When?: 29/05/20 Design and implementation: The roof is approximately 2.2×1. 3m with agentle slope.
Urban SuDS: Restoring a front garden
What?: Cleared and terraced the steep slope of a large weedy front garden to make it a usable space, using some small SuDS methods Where?: Luddendenfoot, Halifax When?: April/May 2020