urban environmental benefits conference oct 2015 pitches

Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities

Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities

Welcome..!

Conference & WorkshopDelivering Environmental Benefits in Urban CommunitiesThe Priory Rooms, Birmingham, October 2015


Registration 09:30am

Welcome and plenary 10:15am

Best Practice Showcase (6x five minute ‘pitches’ in each 30 minute section)

1) Engagement, communications & partnership working 10:30am2) Strategic tools/approaches 11:00am

Tea & Coffee Networking Break 11:30am

3) Help and guidance for urban practitioners 12:00 midday4) Practical delivery of interventions 12:30pm

Lunch 1:00pm

Morning Programme



Ashley HoltAshley Holt

Optimising the delivery of environmental benefits in

urban communities

Spot the connection….?

8

Source: US EPA 2005

9

If we can broaden the offer, widen the circle of interest we might:

• Leverage more joint action, which • Increases potential access to funding and

aligned investment

This is especially relevant to support action in urban environments where one of the obstacles is multiple stakeholders and fragmented interests

“We can’t lead by vinegar; only by honey”*

10*Andrea Kelly, Broadland CP

Catchment Approach & NEA ES

11

12

Please tell us any other reasons you value the rivers in the Wear catchment/area’.

‘Is there anything preventing you from making more use of rivers in the Wear catchment?’.

But real people say….

13

So the connection is……..Maslow’s hierarchy Benefit equivalence?

14

Are a bit like…….

The question of scope..

15

• Who will benefit• Who might contribute/ who might pay?• How are the benefits distributed now?• How might that distribution change as a

result of :• Our proposals?• Other projects and proposals?

Classification of benefits is a critical consideration for building of a convincing business case and opens up a number of relevant questions:

Have we got the right kinds of buckets and do the ones we have enable, or constrain progress?

So

16

What language and approaches to engagement work best?

Are we able to adequately account for all of the benefits that may accrue?



Registration 9:30am






Lunch 1:00pm

Morning Programme



Shaun MaskreyShaun Maskrey

Building a community understanding of flood risk

though participatory modelling



Dave JohnsonDave Johnson

CaBA National Support: mentoring, training, data &

evidence, tools and guidance

bit.ly/CaBATechSupport

• CaBA Website• Discussion Forum• Newsletter• Evidence Sharing

Platform• Mapping Portal• Mobile apps• GIS Data Package• GIS Training• Catchment Planning

Template• Mentoring

www.catchmentbasedapproach.org

Newsletter & Twitter

The role of mentoring?

Capacity

Trust

ConfidenceConfidence:•What are others doing?•A sounding board

Trust:• 3 questions in a row•Look wider than the usual suspects.• Turn data into evidence.

Capacity:• Six organisations on the team and counting....• Terms of Reference• Regional hubs........• If you can find match we can do more......

Mentoring

Mentoring

10 X Catchment Delivery



Kevin BartonKevin Barton

The ‘Host Community’ approach to retrofit SuDS:

adopting a holistic approach

SuDS for The Host Community

A holistic approach to SuDS to encourage community ‘buy-in’

Kevin BartonRobert Bray Associates

@ikevinbarton

Bad SuDS gives nothing to the community

Retrofit SuDS

Retrofit SuDS will change an existing landscape.

Australia Road, White CityThe ‘host landscape’

Retrofit SuDS

Retrofit SuDS will change an existing landscape.It will impact the local community.Australia Road, White CityThe ‘host community’

Retrofit SuDS

But it won’t necessarily benefit the local community

Australia Road, White CityThe ‘host community’

Australia RoadCommunity Park (with SuDS)

v


Rain‐channel feature over raingarden

v


Before SuDS

v


Safe street and route to school

v


The ‘Wiggly Wall’ through a SuDS basin

v


School entrance plaza with raingardens and rain sculptures


“Now we walk to school because it’s nice”

“We actually turn up to school pick‐up 10 minutes earlier because we can chat and hang around while the children play”

“It’s brought the community closer together because we are now ‘meeting’ people we’ve seen at the school gate hundreds of times before but never talked to”

“The teachers actually come and sit out here in their lunch – I can’t wait until next summer because people will be all over this place!”

“The kids LOVE it! My daughter does the wall at least once every morning and afternoon!”

“We’re going to have a Christmas Market out on the plaza”

“It’s actually bringing children in from other areas to the playground”



Polly BryantPolly Bryant

Using catchment partnership volunteers to investigate

storm drains on the Hogsmill

Volunteersvs.

Urban Pollution

Urban Pollution‐ Misconnections‐ Urban run‐off‐ STW discharge‐ CSOs‐ Patchy EA data

RIVERFLY MONITORING

HOGSMILL STORM TANKS

POLLUTION PATROL

STORM TANK ANALYSIS

TANKS FULL = DISCHARGING

2 MINUTE INTERVALS

LESSONS LEARNT



Helen SpringHelen Spring

De-mystifying SuDS: engaging communities along

the culverted River Effra

The Lost Effra ProjectPartnership working to create community owned SuDS

Creating community owned SuDS

Demystifying SuDS

Skills workshops



Helen BattHelen Batt

Sourcing investment from business to improve flood

defences, amenity & biodiversity

Sheffield Flood Scheme:Business Investment Generating Multiple Benefits

Helen BattSenior FCRM Advisor22 October 2015

River Restoration Centre Conference 2015

Background

Flooding impact: business areas

• Lower Don Valley: Strategic economic importance to region

• Cost of recovery to business £millions• Price and availability of business insurance• Is the LDV still a place to do business??

Business Improvement Districts

• Sheffield adopted the ‘beneficiary contributes’• BIDS ‐ traditional uses – maintenance, security, marketing. NOT flood schemes.

• BIDs are funded through a top up on business rates. Business led, business votes.

• LDV BID: Between £90 ‐ £45,000 per annum• Raised £1.4m

Poorly maintained channel had significant impact on flooding

Channel maintenance became an element of the flood scheme:

tree, INNS and debris management. Opportunity to generate more

benefits

AmenBID is flexible funding stream. Businesses opted for top up ‘amenity’ litter clearance

River Stewardship Company

delivering the work. Social enterprise.

CABA approach

River Stewardship Company deliver the contract and work with volunteers

Building volunteer capacity and skills leads to the delivery of ‘top up’ projects

Clean, attractive setting

A better river for people and wildlife:Flooding, amenity, biodiversity, social capital

BIDS in other places?Keen to share learning.

helen.batt@environment‐agency.gov.uk

Helen BattSenior FCRM Advisor22 October 2015



Registration 9:30am






Lunch 1:00pm

Morning Programme



Jessica LamondJessica Lamond

Blue-Green Cities: bringing naturally oriented

water cycles & amenity together

Develop and rigorously evaluate strategies for managing flood risk that deliver multiple benefits

as part of urban planning and renewal

Economic Growth

Carbon Storage

Biodiversity

Food

Air Quality

Landscape

Water quality

Noise ReductionWater storage

Health and well‐being

Soil Quality Water conveyance and transport

Economic Growth

Carbon Storage

Water quality

Water storage


Soil Quality Water conveyance and transport

Economic Growth

Carbon Storage

Water quality

Water storage


Soil Quality Water conveyanceand transport

Soil QualityWater conveyance and transport

Economic Growth

Carbon Storage

Biodiversity

Food

Air Quality

LandscapeWater quality

Noise ReductionWater storage


GREY INFRASTRUCTURE

BLUE‐GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

NO FLOOD FLOOD

Grey vs. Blue‐Green

Developing a Blue‐Green vision for Newcastle

Learning and Action Alliance (LAA)

A LAA is usually an open arrangement where participants create a Joint understanding of a problem and its possible solutions based on rational criticism and coherence through discussion. It facilitates the identification of innovative ideas for the solution of complex (wicked) problems outside the constraints of existing formal institutional settings.

Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance in process…

Retrofit SuDS – attitudes/behaviours

The Dings, Bristol (above), @Bristol (top‐right), St Nicholas House, Bristol (bottom right)

Distribution of benefitsSpatial, temporal and stakeholder

6 26 1 6 8

89

56

2345

0

22.5

45

67.5

90

112.5

Air q

ualit

y

Car

bon

sequ

estra

tion

Biod

iver

sity

Noi

se a

ttenu

atio

n

Flow

con

trol

Pollu

tion

cont

rol

Amen

ity

Hea

lth

Rec

reat

ion

Benefits (%)

The research reported in this presentation is being conducted as part of the Blue‐Green Cities Research Consortium with support from the:

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council • Northern Ireland Rivers Agency• Environment Agency• National Science Foundation• The Blue‐Green Cities team and strategic advisory board

Acknowledgement

bluegreencities.ac.uk EPSRC Grant EP/K013661/1

Delivering and Evaluating MultipleFlood Risk Benefits in Blue‐Green Cities



Stuart KirkStuart Kirk

An ecosystem services approach for the urban

water environment

An Ecosystem Services Approach for the Urban

Water Environment

Stuart Kirk, Claire Johnstone, Ashley Holt Nick Paling & Sarah Wigley

18 August 2015

ESSUWE Project (WT1580)

• It seeks to support the growing number of stakeholder led urban water / environment initiatives to help deliver multiple benefits

• It is trialing the ecosystem services approach as a means to help diverse community groups and agencies work together to better align their efforts and resources to achieve more coherent management of the water environment to the benefit of all

‘Better together’ model

Bide and Cranston (2014)

Health + wellbeingProsperity / deprivationAir qualityFlood riskRecreation / leisure



CURRENT PROVISION / NEED / PRIORITY

Multiple Benefits?

2. WHERE is the NEED and the Greatest OPPORTUNITY?

1. WHAT is the NEED?

Environmental Data

Socio-Economic and Health Data

WIN‐WIN“Provider saves”

REGULATION“Polluter pays”

INCENTIVES“Provider is paid”

3. OPTIONS? With Supporting COSTS & BENEFITS

4. WHO?…& who pays?

INTERVENTIONS TOOLBOX

…making a robust business case

RIVER RESTORATION, MISS‐CONNECTIONS ETC

Above regulatory baseline

ESSUWE Project Outputs

• A method to help identify opportunity areas

• A toolbox of interventions

• A cost-benefit framework (actively supported by the CaBA Benefits Assessment Sub-Group.)

• A series of demonstration areas where the targeting and cost benefit framework have been piloted.

• A set of communication & visualisation tools and a showcase of best practice examples. This will include maps, audio-slides, online materials and user-friendly, spatial decision-making tools or applications

https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/jweg and www.wrt.org.uk



Paul ShafferPaul Shaffer

The Benefits of SuDS Tool (BeST): an evaluation tool for

practitioners developing SuDS

Challenges

Photo: Luke Greysmith

• Support the delivery of SuDS– New build

– Retrofit

• Funding and business models key for retrofit

• Provide a common language for stakeholders

• Need to support partnership funding.

www.susdrain.orgwww.susdrain.org/resources/best

BeST: Benefits of SuDS Tool

• Collation of evidence (values)• Structured assessment

approach • Considers confidence• Support practitioners to

qualify and quantify (monetise) benefits

• Compare drainage options• Provision of detailed audit

trail

81www.susdrain.orgwww.susdrain.org/resources/best

Wide range of benefits

FinancialSocial

Regulating

Environmental

Supporting Provisioning

Cultural

Benefit category Monetised?Air quality Amenity Biodiversity and ecology Building temperature Carbon reduction & sequestration Crime Economic growth Education Enabling development Flexible infrastructure tbcFlooding Groundwater recharge Health Pumping wastewater Rainwater harvesting Recreation Tourism Traffic calming Treating wastewater Water quality 82

Triple bottom line

Ecosystem Services

www.ciria.org | www.susdrain.org

Thank you

Paul Shaffer, CIRIA

[email protected]

T: @sudsulike

W: www.susdrain.org



Patricia RicePatricia Rice

The Ecosystem Services Transfer Toolkit: assessing the

effects of management actions

Links

Searches 2500 data entries

Select

Habitat

Select

Interven

tion

Outpu

ts

Links

Ecosystem Services Transfer Toolkit

Search: ecosystem services transfer toolkit

Or

Contact: [email protected]

Managing Ecosystem Services -Evidence Sheets



Bryan CosgroveBryan Cosgrove

Green infrastructure for water: taking a strategic

approach to targeting GI

Green Infrastructure for Water –River Irwell Pilot Study

Approach

Issues of water management and/or quality

Likely pathwaysfrom source to

receptor (ie watercourse or flood zone)

Opportunitiesfor GI to disrupt pathway

• ccc

Overlay Model



Bob BrayBob Bray

The ‘Host Community’ approach to retrofit SuDS:

adopting a holistic approach

The SuDS AuditA guide to making SuDS evaluations

Bob BrayRobert Bray Associates

The SuDS Audit

The Brief:o A guide to the

SuDS possibilities for sites

o An evaluation of impact of rainfall on sites

o Recommendations of priority activities

The Strutts Centre, Belper

The Audit identifies flow routes and options for action

The Linear Raingarden Inlet Channel and Crossing

The Strutts Centre, Belper

The Main Basin ‘nurse crop’

‘Raingardens are a practical and cost effective retrofit SuDS solution’

The Babington Hospital Site - Belper

The audit identified sub-catchments and flow routes to bypass, where practical, the sensitive sewer outfall.

The Barclay School, Stevenage

Flow routes identify primary risk due to overland flows



Registration 9:30am






Lunch 1:00pm

Morning Programme



Peter BidePeter Bide

Planning advice & guidance in support of integrated water

management

http://www.ciwem.org/planningadvice

We have written an advice note to: Provide a one-stop-shop to demystify water

management

Show how spatial planning can be part of the catchment-based approach and secure multiple benefits

Promote partnership working

Support the NPPF and national planning guidance

Advice for planners

The advice note: Sets out the issues which planners should be

aware of

Shows planners what is possible and the benefits of integrating water issues into plans

Provides examples of what can be achieved drawn from current best practice

Signposts other existing guidance

Planning advice for integrated water management

Multiple benefits

Water-sensitive

development

Flood risk managed &

reduced

Biodiversity enhanced

Liveable and connected

urban space

Diffuse pollution

controlled

More sustainable

water availability

With good planning and

partnerships you can have it all!

How integrated water management works in practice

Funding: getting more for less



Paul ShafferPaul Shaffer

Susdrain: help & guidancein the design, construction &

maintenance of SuDS

• Providing practitioners information, guidance and confidence

• Overcoming challenges of delivery – busting myths

• Advocating SuDS can be delivered anywhere

• Supporting the delivery of multiple benefits through good design

• Demonstrating what can be achieved

Challenges

CIRIA & surface water management

• The SuDS manual (2007)

• Planning for SuDS - making it happen (2010)

• Retrofitting to manage surface water (2012)

• Susdrain (2012)

• WSUD in the UK (2013)

• Managing urban flooding from heavy rainfall – encouraging the design for exceedance (2014)

• Communicating and engagement in local flood risk management (2015)

• Benefits of SuDS tool (BeST) (2015)

• The SuDS manual (next month)


• Guidance• Susdrain

• Website• Face-to-face seminars

• Training• SuDS introduction• SuDS design• SuDS evaluation• Bespoke in-house training

• Advice and facilitation• Consultation• Engagement

Robert Bray Associates

Provision of support


Thank you

Paul Shaffer, CIRIA

[email protected]

T: @sudsulike

W: www.susdrain.org



Claire JohnstoneClaire Johnstone

Guidance & tools to facilitate benefits assessment &

cost-benefit analysis

Understanding & assessing benefits

Claire JohnstoneEconomics Manager, Environment

Agency

UNCLASSIFIED

Hazard protection

Landscapes

Ecosystem Services Framework

UNCLASSIFIED

BenefitsFood

Fibre

Energy

Clean Water

Clean Air

Recreation

Aesthetics

Wildlife

Hazard protection

Equitable Climate

•No benefits missed

•No double counting

•Consistent

•Transparent – who benefits/loses

Non‐monetary values are important

• Subjective & non‐monetary value information increasingly important

Building blocks approach

• Monetary assessment is not always necessary or proportionate

• The most important thing is to understand the impacts

UNCLASSIFIED

Qualitative(description)

Quantitative(numbers)

Monetary (£)



Rob CollinsRob Collins

The role of the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA)

Urban Working Group

The Catchment Based Approach (CaBA)Urban Working Group

Building capacity and expertise within CaBA Partnerships

Co‐delivery of multiple benefits for people and the environment

Rob Collins – The Rivers Trust/[email protected]

Photo; Jiri Rezac



Michelle WalkerMichelle Walker

Citizen science & volunteer monitoring for data gathering,

engagement & targeting action

www.catchmentbasedapproach.org/volunteer‐monitoring



Martyn EvansMartyn Evans

An Introduction to Sustainable Drainage

Systems (SuDS) in Wales

An Introduction to Sustainable Drainage Systems in Wales

Martyn Evans | Natural Resources Wales

[email protected]

Environmental Benefits for Urban CommunitiesConference and Workshop, Priory Rooms

22nd October 2015

An integrated approach

• Understanding natural systems

• Benefits for people, business and the environment

• Good design

• Delivering the right development in the right place

INCREASED URBANISATION

Pentyrch, Cardiff

RAINFALL SEEN AS A PROBLEM

Tongwynlais, Cardiff

FLOOD RISK

Llanberis, November 2012

CLIMATE CHANGE

WETTER IN WINTER…

POPULATION GROWTH

Ecosystem PressuresPOLLUTION AND SEWERAGE

DISCHARGES

Gwenfro, Wrexham

DEGRADED HABITAT AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS

… AND DRIER IN SUMMER

UKCP09 (50%, 2080s)

A National Framework

• Interim SuDS Standards and Guidance for Wales

• Wales Water Strategy

- Implement SuDS- Improve planning and management- Support improved land management- Reduction in water pollution- Tackle diffuse pollution

• Wales Water Forum

• AMP 6

• Environment (Wales) Bill

• Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act

Sustainable thinking

Greener Grangetownhttps://youtu.be/cQW84iRZUXo

First Public Consultation (2014)

Second Public Consultation (2015)



Registration 9:30am






Lunch 1:00pm

Morning Programme



Katherine CauserKatherine Causer

Green infrastructure solutions to urban water

issues – Street Trees Project

GI Solutions to Urban Water Issues – The Street Trees Demonstration Project

Aim

To demonstrate and quantify the ability of street trees and their tree pits to help;• Manage surface water runoff• Reduce Urban Diffuse Pollution by removing pollutants from surface water runoff

Tree Trench Design & Build

20m long x 1.7m deep

Slot Drainage Kerbs

• Permissions needed to work on the highway

• Utilities will be an issue

Inflow & Outflow Monitoring Chambers

Deep Root Silva Cells3 units wide and 3 units deep

Pit lined with impermeable membrane

Surface water distribution pipe

The Green (and brown) stuff

Bio‐Retention / Filtration Soil24m3 – Source: British Sugar

3 x Platanus X hispanica (acerifolia) – London Plane15 years old

Outflow Connection to Surface Water Drain

Practical Completion

Monitoring to commence autumn 2015

What will we be monitoring?

1. Water Quantity– Inflow vs outflow– Water attenuation, peak discharges

2. Water Quality– Pollutants (metals, salt and hydrocarbons)– Nutrients (phosphorus, nitrogen & carbon)– Suspended solidsUoM will monitor for 3 years

Further Opportunities

An integrated sub catchment wide urban catchment forestry demonstration at scale to include; • Range of GI interventions in the public realm guided by GI

mapping project • Working with communities to deliver interventions on private

property, gardens etc including trialling use of incentives



Andy GrahamAndy Graham

Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS): delivering

for people & wildlife

Sustainable drainage systems delivering for people and

wildlife

Andy Graham

They work...

ATTENUATION

SuDS for Schools

10 schools – one catchment

1000+ students engaged

Knowledge, skills and confidence

Cleaner streams, new habitats

Healthy, connected people

Inspirational places

Transformed learning – not just the students

What a wonderful day we had! It exceeded all our expectations. Thank you so much for everything. Please pass on our thanks to all your colleagues who made it such a successful event. Mr Westmore, Acting Head Teacher

SuDS are now well and truly in the Hollickwood consciousness, and also of all our community guests, (I see that all the parents' Facebook pages are going crazy tonight with admiring comments about our SuDS!). Linden Groves, Parent & Gardening Committee

“Love the garden. The children sit at the benches by the garden every

break and lunchtime”Susi Earnshaw



John BrewingtonJohn Brewington

The Birmingham Urban Demonstrator: turning the

vision into reality

Controlled for circulation only157


UK Urban Demonstrator – BirminghamA community scale, living laboratory to demonstrate the practicality

and societal benefits of integrated water management

Within Buildings Gardens Streets + Shared space• Green Roofs

• Rainwater harvesting

• Grey water reuse

• Water efficiency devices

• Energy efficiency devices

• Smart Meters

• Flood resilient buildings

• Downpipe disconnection

• Rain gardens

• Water butts/tanks

• Porous paving

• Driveway de‐paving

• Intelligent rainwater harvesting

• Tree planters and rain gardens

• Swales, ponds and wetlands

• Porous paving

• Surface water separation + reuse

• Improved river corridor

• Smart sewers

• Community FOG traps

The project will deliver1. Physical changes – to buildings and streets2. Customer engagement and behavioural

change programme3. Independent testing facilities and technology

showcase


URBAN DEMONSTRATOR ‐ Vision into Reality

Redhill School Water Champions

Community Engagement and

Retrofit Programme

River ColeAckers Weir RemovalFlood RiskWater Framework Directive

RainwaterHarvesting Trials

Surface Water and Catchment Assessment



Paul ChapmanPaul Chapman

A Local Government approach to what drives river

restoration: Lewisham example

Ladywell Fields. Lewisham, London - UK

Ladywell Fields 2005. Lewisham, London - UK



Chris GardnerChris Gardner

A weir removal & re-meandering project in a highly urban setting in South London

Before After

Example of habitat works

WQ issues addressed with ‘Downstream Defenders’



Julie WozniczkaJulie Wozniczka

Raingardens & Sustainable drainage in the Soar: ‘the river starts here’

Raingardensand SustainableDrainage – The River StartsHere!Julie Wozniczka, Senior Project Manager

www.trentriverstrust.org

www.trentriverstrust.orgThe Strutts Centre

• Former school• Grade II listed

building• Community

Centre• Used by EA and

TRT


Initial engagement, information gathering and generating

options• Discussions with EA• Designer commissioned –Robert Bray Associates• Topographic Survey • SuDS Audit

Learning: Involve landowners throughout. Careful commissioning, designer with proven track record


Identify options, secure permissions, procure contractor

• Determine options to be delivered.• Permissions – planning, listed building, • Detailed designs• Land owner input and agreement to designs• Procure contractor (Pugh‐Lewis)

Learning:Involve the planning officer and landownerDesigner role is key


Ground work and construction


Learning: • Careful commissioning of contractor, checks, references etc.

• You also have to be lucky when working to tight funding deadlines – weather, contractor availability etc.

• Pay attention to key decision points and record them.


Planting

Many hands make light work Community planting dayEA planting day.


Planting

• Carefully designed planting scheme• Cost of plants• Source plants• Community involvement, partnership working

Learning:Determine the plant budget and ongoing resource for maintenance as early as possibleVolunteer donations = lots of project managementFrom this stage, it’s a garden! You might have to do a lot of watering, and then weeding to keep your plants alive!


Britain in Bloom New Landscape of the Year 2015 (East Midlands)


Interpretation‐Working model

Model has starred at over 10 community events in 2015!

Video of the model at www.trentriverstrust.org and

River Restoration Centre website


Interpretation….Adds such a lotALWAYS takes longer than I think. Being able to do it as a follow‐on project helped.Always get it proof read.



End