SuDS Reports you can trust – backed by RoSPA expertise
Our SuDS (Sustainable Drainage Systems) Reports help developers, local authorities, and contractors design safer and more responsible water environments. Using RoSPA’s unique risk rating tool, our experienced consultants provide expert reviews to ensure your SuDS are compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with industry best practice. Partner with the UK’s water safety leaders to reduce risk, protect communities, and meet planning requirements.
What is a SuDS Report?
Our SuDS Report will help you ensure your SuDs are safe and designed responsibly. The review is carried out by one of our specialised and experienced water and leisure safety consultants. When our safety consultant reviews your SuDS, it’s categorised into logical segments. Each of these segments is then evaluated using the unique RoSPA risk rating tool. Specialised water and safety experts have developed it to establish and monitor the risk of drowning in the UK.
The recommendations from your SuDS report are made against any considered unacceptably high levels of risk. The analysis of the risk review can help large providers of SuDS; benchmark your designs and risk profile with others (to see if they are broadly in line with industry practice); ensure you are not over protecting sites (spending too much money); or ensure you are not under protecting sites and exposing people to higher risk.
Once you have implemented the SuDS report recommendations, the risk of someone drowning or being injured is likely to be at an acceptably low level, in relation to other water sites across the country. It will clearly communicate to stakeholders that safety has been specifically considered before planning, construction, handover and adoption takes place.
Why carry out a SuDS Report?
Anywhere that water and people can interact poses a risk. Sometimes these risks are very small, but every year in the UK, around 400 people die from drowning as a result of an accident in or around water. This is double the number of people that die in work-related accidents each year. Our health and safety consultants help clients, designers, contractors, and local authorities prevent accidents and avoid drowning in Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems.
Benefits of RoSPA SuDS Reports
When you choose RoSPA for your SuDS Report, you benefit from:
• Unique and specialised risk rating tool designed to reduce drowning risks
• Benchmarking against other sites to ensure your safety profile matches industry best practice
• A SuDS report that can support planning permission
• Experienced consultants with expertise in water and leisure safety
• Cost-effective solutions—avoid both overspending on unnecessary measures and under-protecting sites
• Fast delivery and fixed price for predictable, reliable service.
Your RoSPA SuDS Report gives you clarity, confidence, and a trusted expert review you can share with planners, stakeholders, and communities.
Find out more about how we can help you today!
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We assess all relevant site plans and water bodies, reviewing slope angles, planting, lighting, fencing, and other design features. The outcome is a tailored risk report with clear recommendations.
Developers, contractors, local authorities, and housing providers who design, build, or manage sites with SuDS should commission a report to ensure compliance and public safety.
Most reviews are completed within a few weeks, depending on the complexity of the site and the detail of the information provided.
Yes. Our reports provide evidence that water safety has been considered, which is often a key factor in gaining approval.
Our reports are backed by decades of leadership in water safety and use the only risk rating tool designed specifically to assess drowning risk.
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