Anglian Water's Urban Regeneration Programme will invest £160million into Surface Water Management schemes across the two coastal catchments. 

 

Our aim is to deliver combined sewer overflow (CSO) spill and sewer flood reduction through nature-based, urban regeneration across the two A-WINEP target locations of Southend-on-sea and Great Yarmouth.

Our focus will be the use of retrofit Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) to hold back surface water in order to reduce spills from storm overflows to improve bathing water quality. We will also look to reduce the risk of sewer flooding to homes and businesses. Through deployment of nature-based solutions, we want to deliver benefit to all of our customers in these two catchments by enhancing tourism and biodiversity and delivering the health and wellbeing benefits of green infrastructure and clean bathing waters.   

 

Through our programme we will work with the local community and partners, including councils, schools, social housing providers and businesses. To facilitate this partnership approach, we will seek match funding opportunities and work to ensure the local councils have the capability and support to help deliver this ambitious programme of work.  

 

The A-WINEP Grant Fund

If you have a project that supports the management of surface water and urban regeneration within one of these two urban locations*, you may be able to apply for funding from the A-WINEP Catchment Regeneration Fund. 

 

*The two A-WINEP urban target catchments are: 

 

  • Great Yarmouth, including Gorleston-on-Sea, Bradwell, Caister-on-Sea, Hemsby and some of the surrounding villages 
  • Southend-on-Sea, including Leigh-on-Sea, Hadleigh and Thundersley in the west, Shoeburyness in the east, and everywhere in-between.