Flow Controls
for SuDS
nature-based solutions
SuDSstore provides deceptively simple sustainable drainage (SuDS) solutions, developed by professional SuDS designers with over 25 years’ experience.
With expert design support, our Controflow range includes flow control chambers and inlet/outlet baskets designed specifically for SuDS schemes.
Efficient & Compliant SuDS
SuDS are set to become mandatory for developments throughout England during 2024, requiring nature-based solutions using components near the surface to provide multiple benefits.
Flow controls are essential for SuDS, to demonstrate agreed flow rates and to maximise spatial efficiency of SuDS features in development. Meeting the latest mandatory SuDS requirements, controlling the flow with Controflow enables source control, sub-catchments and management trains, near the surface. Flow controls also enable SuDS (notably permeable paving) on sloping sites and offer protection to downstream drainage assets.
Conventional drainage regimes using gullies and pipes to transfer polluted runoff straight to expensive underground tanks or large storage ponds cannot meet these requirements.
Demonstrating SuDS Benefits
To demonstrate the government’s approach to mandatory SuDS, Defra’s January 2023 report cited Lamb Drove in Cambridgeshire as an exemplar. This monitored SuDS demonstration project covers a 35 homes development on 1-hectare compared with a similar, neighbouring development using piped drainage. Completed in 2006, it was one of the first housing projects in England with integrated SuDS and included Controflow chambers – still performing well today.
Support for SuDS Designers
SuDSstore provides expert Design Support from the inception of your SuDS scheme.
'The ‘SuDS Approach’, expected to form the basis of statutory standards for England, requires flow controls to achieve Source Control, create Sub-Catchments and maximise the benefits of the Management Train. SuDSstore offers support for SuDS designers on the use of the Controflow range of flow controls in their schemes. This service includes help with product selection, orifice sizing, specification, scheduling and long-term operation.
As further design support, SuDSstore can provide individual Sub-Catchment analysis (attenuation volumes and pass forward flow rates) on a site-specific basis using bespoke software to help with the selection process for the appropriate Controflow chambers.
