WINNING WITH SUDS
THE TRADE ASSOCIATION INTERPAVE EXPLORES AN EXEMPLARY, AWARD-WINNING URBAN
REGENERATION AND SUSTAINABLE DRAINAGE (SUDS) SCHEME, FEATURING INNOVATIVE
APPLICATIONS OF CONCRETE BLOCK PERMEABLE PAVING.
Bridget Joyce Square in Australia The scheme won ‘Winner of Winners’ London Borough of Hammersmith &
Road, White City, London, is a SuDS (the President’s Award) as well as Fulham. They recognised that the road
park with community at its heart. Winner of the ‘Adding Value through in front of the school was unsafe and
Landscape’ category at the 2017 unhealthy, and identified the need for
Landscape Institute Awards, and a public meeting space where events
also an ICE London Civil Engineering could be held. Coincidentally, the
Award in 2016. But most importantly, Borough was looking for a landmark
it has been enthusiastically welcomed retrofit SuDS project at that time.
Its design, by SuDS consultants and
landscape architects Robert Bray
Associates, introduces the innovative
concept of concrete block permeable
paving as a thin overlay for existing
streets, removing rainwater straight
from the surface without gulleys
and providing some attenuation
and treatment before discharging to
adjacent, well-planted basins.
by local residents, as recognised by a
Sustrans community survey.
Landmark SuDS Project
In 2013, the head teacher of Randolph
Beresford School and the White City
Residents’ Association approached the
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Consultation with local people and a
realization of the potential for the site
led to an integrated design that linked
two disconnected spaces and created a
social arena celebrating rainfall.