Our Drought Plan covers South West Water, Bristol Water and Bournemouth Water supply areas.
We produce a Drought Plan every five years. Our current Plan is available here. We are currently in the process of reviewing and updating our Plan and have now published it for public consultation. This consultation will be open for 10 weeks from XXX until XXX 2026 inclusive. It provides customers and stakeholders the opportunity to consider the proposals set out in our Draft Drought Plan and provide us with any feedback or comments.
You can read a copy of our Draft Drought Plan, as well as any accompanying documents, via the links below. The list below shows a simple overview of all documents on this webpage.
| Draft Drought Plan 2027 Main Report |
| Draft Drought Plan 2027 Customer Summary |
| Draft Drought Plan 2027 Strategic Environmental Assessment Non-Technical Summary |
| Appendix 1: Testing our Drought Plan |
| Appendix 2: Strategic Environmental Assessment Report |
| Appendix 3: Drought Actions |
| Appendix 4: Extreme Drought Actions |
| Appendix 5: Drought Permit Readiness |
| Appendix 6: Regional Alignment |
| Appendix 7: ESoR Example and Statement of Reasons |
| Appendix 8: EAR Methodology |
| Appendix 9: Environmental Option Summaries |
| Appendix 10: Learning from the 2025 Drought |
| SEA Environmental Report - Annex A-G: Background information |
| SEA Environmental Report - Annex H-N: Option Environmental Assessments |
| SEA Environmental Report - Annex O: HRA Technical Report |
| SEA Environmental Report - Annex P: WFD Technical Report |
| SEA Environmental Report - Annex Q: INNS Technical Report |
Responses to this consultation should be sent via email to water.resources@defra.gov.uk with the subject line ‘South West Water Draft Drought Plan Consultation’. Please also copy WaterResources@pennon-group.co.uk into your response. The deadline for responding is XXX.
If necessary, any representations by post should be sent to:
Drought Plan Consultation
Defra
Drought
Seacole, 2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
If a paper copy of a document is required, then please contact us at WaterResources@pennon-group.co.uk.
We will take time to review all the comments we receive and will use them to review our Draft Drought Plan. We will respond to the consultation responses by publishing a Statement of Response setting out how we have taken on board the comments received and used them to develop our Revised Draft Drought Plan. We will publish our Statement of Response on this webpage by the 25th October 2026.
A small number of specific locations have been redacted from our Strategic Environmental Assessments on the grounds of national security and commercial confidentiality.