Statutory guidance

SR2015 No 32: installing an access culvert no more than 5 metres long

Standard rules for installing an access culvert no more than 5 metres long.

Applies to England

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SR2015 No 32: Installing an access culvert no more than 5 metres long

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Generic risk assessment for SR2015 No 32

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These rules allow you to install an access culvert no more than 5 metres long on a main river.

The watercourse should be no more than 2 metres wide, measured inside the channel from the foot of its banks on each side.

These rules do not allow the installation of culverts within:

  • 8 metres of a flood defence
  • the fish breeding season
Published 6 April 2016
Last updated 31 July 2019 + show all updates
  1. Updated operational conditions and screening distances associated with each standard rule. The aim of this is to improve the uptake of flood risk standard rules permits.

  2. First published.