Greater Cambridge Statement of Community Involvement Draft Consultation 2023

Thank your for the opportunity to comment on the Greater Cambridge Statement of Community Involvement. Having reviewed he SCI, we congratulate the GCSPS on the production of a comprehensive document setting out the wide ranging approach to community engagement and participation in the planning process.

Anglian Water supports the SCI and welcomes specific reference to Anglian Water with regard to listed consultees for relevant planning applications. For future reference, it is the Government's intention to implement Schedule Three of The Flood and Water Management Act 2010 to make SuDS mandatory in all new developments in England in 2024. Schedule 3 provides a framework for the approval and adoption of drainage systems, a sustainable drainage system approving body within unitary and county councils, and national standards on the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of sustainable drainage systems for the lifetime of the development. It also makes the right to connect surface water runoff to public sewers conditional upon the drainage system being approved before any construction work can start. Once this is implemented, Anglian Water, as sewerage undertaker, will be a statutory consultee in the SuDS approval process - to the SuDS Approving Body (County Council/LLFA).

Thank your for the opportunity to comment on the Greater Cambridge Statement of Community Involvement. Having reviewed he SCI, we congratulate the GCSPS on the production of a comprehensive document setting out the wide ranging approach to community engagement and participation in the planning process.

Anglian Water supports the SCI and welcomes specific reference to Anglian Water with regard to listed consultees for relevant planning applications. For future reference, it is the Government's intention to implement Schedule Three of The Flood and Water Management Act 2010 to make SuDS mandatory in all new developments in England in 2024. Schedule 3 provides a framework for the approval and adoption of drainage systems, a sustainable drainage system approving body within unitary and county councils, and national standards on the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of sustainable drainage systems for the lifetime of the development. It also makes the right to connect surface water runoff to public sewers conditional upon the drainage system being approved before any construction work can start. Once this is implemented, Anglian Water, as sewerage undertaker, will be a statutory consultee in the SuDS approval process - to the SuDS Approving Body (County Council/LLFA).