Stroud and Tewkesbury Waterscapes Project

Starting in April 2025, the Stroud and Tewkesbury Waterscapes project will use Nature Based Solutions (NBS) to help limit the impact of flooding on local habitats and improve the resilience of local communities, by reducing flood risk and boosting biodiversity for nature and people to enjoy.

Thanks to continued support from Royal Sun Alliance (RSA) Insurance, an Intact company, we’ve been able to continue this project after a very successful Phase One in Cheltenham and Gloucester. The project is part of RSA Insurance’s commitment to building resilient communities and helping people, businesses and society adapt to a changing climate.

The project will continue to use rain gardens and green roofs, and start using permeable paving, all of which are Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). These solutions are ways of addressing flooding by capturing water and slowing the flow while cleaning the water and increasing wildlife areas. See some examples from Phase One.

How can you get involved?

The project is looking for suitable locations to add SuDS like rain gardens. If you have any land or space or know of an area that might benefit from this work, we want to hear from you. This space might be outside your local community hub, or on your business site, or a paved area in your local town or village that could benefit from some more wildlife.

If you’re a landowner, business, or community member in the Stroud and Tewkesbury districts interested in this project, please complete the form below and we’ll get in touch. We’d love to hear from you and for you to get involved.

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We’ve been able to continue this project thanks to continued support from RSA Insurance, and a growing network of partners joining the project such as Gloucestershire County Council and the Environment Agency.
We will continue to raise funding for this project over the next two years. If you would like to support this project financially, please contact our Fundraising team.

Previous SuDS work at GWT

GWT has a wealth of experience in SuDS, check out the following videos and resources below to learn more about the other projects we’ve worked on in this area.