Recreation

SuDS can deliver recreational benefits through the dual use of components and facilities such as using attenuation and storage areas and overland conveyance routes for play and/or sports areas. Also, multifunctional use of SuDS components can have other benefits such as the incorporation of recreational open space into a development that otherwise may be deemed impracticable by a developer. The benefit pathway diagram below outlines how the benefits may be provided.

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• Benefits of SuDS
• Flood risk management
• Water quality management
• Biodiversity & ecology
• Amenity
• Air quality
• Building temperature
• Carbon reduction & sequestration
• Crime
• Economic growth
• Education
• Enabling development
• Flexible infrastructure/climate change adaptation
• Groundwater recharge
• Health & wellbeing
• Pumping wastewater
• Rainwater harvesting
• Tourism
• Traffic calming
• Treating wastewater
• SuDS performance and monitoring