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Comment

Representation ID: 24898

Received: 27/10/2017

Respondent: The Woodland Trust

The plan should recognise the role trees/woods can play as part of SUDS. Woodland can help adaptation strategies cope with the high profile threats to water quality and volume resulting from climate change. The FC's publication, The Case for Trees (2010) explains how: 'the capacity of trees to attenuate water flow reduces the impact of heavy rain/floods and can improve the effectiveness of SUDS'. Trees can help reduce surface water flooding in urban situations too, regulating the rate at which rainfall reaches the ground. Slowing the flow increases infiltration and the ability of engineered drains to takeaway excess water.