Permeable & SuDS - Interpave

Planning Requirements for Trees

Extensive new tree planting with provision for long-term maintenance is now a requirement for developments, with new government policies taking effect. Concrete block permeable paving offers an important opportunity to help satisfy these requirements with minimal maintenance requirements over the long-term. The 2021 ‘National Planning Policy Framework’ (NPPF) states: ‘Planning policies and decisions should ensure…

Redefining the Post-pandemic Public Realm

The pandemic has heralded a fundamental rethink of our public realm showing that a fresh approach is needed to designing the spaces between buildings with multifunctional and long-life but adaptable solutions, ready to meet climate change requirements. Apart from temporary measures for social distancing, the pandemic has accelerated implementation of issues raised in the past…

Permeable Paving and Street Trees in Harmony

A new case study highlights the impact of concrete block permeable paving as an irrigation source, sustaining street trees and green infrastructure. The award-winning Bridget Joyce Square in Australia Road, White City, London, is a sustainable drainage (SuDS) park with community at its heart and an exemplar for future urban landscapes. The scheme won ‘Winner…

Bridget Joyce Square, Australia Road, London

The second edition of this case study highlights the impact of concrete block permeable paving as an irrigation source, sustaining street trees and green infrastructure, following a site visit some 5-years after completion. Its low-intervention, thin overlay technology enables sustainable reuse of conventional road bases and their embodied carbon, creating attractive, safe shared-surfaces. Capturing rainwater…

Post-pandemic Paving – Delivering a Better Public Realm

Expanded and updated 26th June 2020 Announced in May, the government’s post-pandemic investment package for cycling and walking provides a unique opportunity to transform the streets and public spaces of our towns and cities. Established and innovative new techniques – using modular concrete paving systems – offer adaptable, low-intervention, retrofit solutions to these new challenges,…

Protecting our Environment with Permeable Paving

A recent GLA report highlights the damage caused by vehicle pollution in road and surface water drainage to our rivers and streams. Concrete block permeable paving offers the obvious starting point to address this growing problem. Pollution is present and can build up on all hard surfaces used by vehicles (including electric), from motorways to…

Essential Permeable Paving for SuDS Guide

Interpave has published the new Edition 7 of its definitive guidance document ‘Design and Construction of Concrete Block Permeable Pavements’, now available to download. Concrete Block Permeable Paving (CBPP) technology has proven itself over decades of successful use in the UK and around the world – notably in Germany since the mid-1980s. Experience of CBPP…

Transformative Paving

A new case study is available exploring the transformative power of inspired hard landscape design. Covering a 6-year period, it revisits the phased regeneration of Orchard Village – previously known as the Mardyke Estate – in east London, master-planned and designed by PRP. The case study features application of a restrained palette of precast concrete…

Orchard Village, London

A new case study is available exploring the transformative power for housing of inspired hard landscape design. Covering a 6 year period, it revisits the phased regeneration of Orchard Village – previously known as the Mardyke Estate – in east London, master-planned and designed by PRP. The case study features application of a restrained palette…

Increasing SuDS Storage

Recent innovations using flow controls with concrete block permeable paving help meet regulatory requirements for sustainable drainage systems (SuDS). SuDS and techniques such as concrete block permeable paving are essential tools in the fight against flooding and pollution. By its very nature, concrete block permeable paving is uniquely placed to help meet the multifunctional…