Statutory guidance

SR2015 No 35: excavating a wetland or pond in a main river floodplain

Standard rules for excavating a wetland or pond in a main river floodplain.

Applies to England

Documents

SR2015 No 35: Excavating a wetland or pond in a main river floodplain

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Generic risk assessment for SR2015 No 35

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Details

These rules allow you to create a wetland or pond in the floodplain of a main river as long as you remove all excavated material from the floodplain.

These rules do not allow you to excavate within:

  • 8 metres of a flood defence
  • 16 metres of a river

Updates to this page

Published 6 April 2016
Last updated 31 July 2019 + show all updates
  1. Updated operational conditions and screening distances associated with each standard rule. The aim of this is to improve the uptake of flood risk standard rules permits.

  2. First published.

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