Journal article
Enhancing the uptake and quality of SuDS within new housing developments
- Abstract:
- This study investigates how private housebuilders navigate the provision of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) within new housing developments, focusing on the often-overlooked land acquisition and valuation processes that shape environmental decision-making. It situates SuDS provision at the intersection of three calculative domains in housebuilding—land valuation, construction costs, and maintenance liabilities. Drawing on elite interviews with volume and super housebuilders operating in Yorkshire, UK, the study shows how these domains influence the uptake of multi-benefit, nature-based drainage solutions compared to minimal “compliant” systems. The paper concludes that without mandatory, consistent regulation and clearer institutional arrangements for SuDS adoption and maintenance, developers will continue to favour minimalist, hydrologically compliant designs over multi-benefit systems. By reconceiving SuDS as market-embedded infrastructure, this study highlights the need for governance reforms that align environmental resilience goals with the economic logics of housebuilding.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/09640568.2026.2646475
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+ Natural Environment Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/02b5d8509
- Grant:
- NE/T01394X/1
+ National Institute for Health and Care Research
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0187kwz08
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- NIHR203316
+ NIHR Oxford Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Centre
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/00aps1a34
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2026-03-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2026-03-12
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- EISSN:
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1360-0559
- ISSN:
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0964-0568
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2397750
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pubs:2397750
- Source identifiers:
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W7141277380
- Deposit date:
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2026-04-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Payne et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2026
- Rights statement:
- © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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