Enabling smarter drainage that meets the latest SuDS guidance.
A SuDS optimisation process built for UK housing developers - helping you meet 2025 drainage standards while saving space, time, and cost.
Simulate, validate, and prove your design from concept to compliance.
What is Optimisation Modelling?
By combining target site data with high fidelity hydraulic modelling, our process identifies the most effective SuDS strategy for your development - saving valuable land, improving drainage performance, and making compliance straightforward.
It’s not guesswork. It’s evidence-based design that shows what will work best, and why.
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The Current Challenge in the Industry?
SuDS are no longer a tick box exercise - they’re a critical part of planning approval and long-term site performance.
With new national standards, tightening local policy, and increasing scrutiny from Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs), ensuring drainage is right is essential getting developments over the line.
Designs are delayed or rejected due to insufficient technical evidence. Costly retrofits are being demanded after initial approval. LLFAs expect data, not just design intent.
Meanwhile, climate pressures are growing:
- Surface water flooding is on the rise.
- Water resources are under strain.
- Consumers and regulators expect more sustainable solutions.
Sustainable drainage is not a nice-to-have.
There’s also commercial pressure: developers must still maximise land use and control costs - without compromising on resilience or sustainability.
Cutting corners on drainage is a risk. Over-engineering drains your budget.
You need a smarter way to design, validate, and prove your SuDS strategy - built for the future.
What You Can Expect
Our process helps you get it right the first time - with clarity, compliance, and confidence.
De-risk your drainage design
Avoid costly redesigns by validating performance early in the process.
Evidence-led compliance
Speed up approvals & back up your scheme with technical proof tailored to your exact site.
Expert Support
Remove uncertainty and stress from the process by working with industry experts.
Optimise for cost and land use
Achieve planning goals while maximising your developable footprint.
Simplify your SuDS strategy
See how changes affect outcomes and remove the guesswork from design.
Build with confidence
Demonstrate performance to planners, LLFAs, clients, and stakeholders.
Designed with the National SuDS Standards and Cunliffe Report in Mind
Our optimisation process aligns with the latest guidance shaping the future of UK drainage design - including the National Standards for Sustainable Drainage Systems and the Cunliffe Review.
Expectations are clear: SuDS must be strategic evidence-based and proven to perform. Instead of just included.
Our process has been developed to reflect these priorities.
Meets Core Principles of the National SuDS Standards:
- Runoff control: Accurately models how SuDS manage flow at source, reducing flood risk.
- Amenity & biodiversity: Supports integration of multi-benefit SuDS features into layout plans.
- Maintenance planning: Outputs include considerations to support long-term adoption.
Responds to Recommendations in the Cunliffe Review:
- Improved evidence: Generates site-specific, performance-based evidence to support planning decisions.
- Better decision-making: Enables comparison of scenarios to select the most suitable SuDS solution.
- Clarity for developers and authorities: Standardised, transparent outputs reduce planning friction.
- Future-ready: Supports a shift toward integrated, nature-based, and resilient drainage systems.
Our process gives you the insight and evidence to confidently meet expectations.
The process
- Get in touch - get in touch and book a discovery call.
- Discovery call - here we gather all relevant information about your chosen location and goals, creating a bespoke proposal.
- Run modelling - Our specialised technicians work their magic!
- Report & Presentation - receive a cost benefit analysis and report of recommendations for your site, all evidenced to support your activities and correspondence with local authorities.
- Right solution, right place - confidently install the optimal SuDS for the job at your development
Ready to Streamline Your SuDS Strategy?
Whether you’re working on a new build, a phased scheme, or a tight site with constraints - our process gives you the insight to make better drainage decisions from the offset.
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