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.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 6 April 2016
• Last updated: 31 July 2019 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

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

Ref: LIT 10441

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Generic risk assessment for SR2015 No 35

Ref: LIT 10455

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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

Published 6 April 2016

Last updated 31 July 2019 + show all updates

1. 31 July 2019

   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. 6 April 2016

   First published.