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Planning Policy Statement
Planning and Climate Change
Peter Ellis
Planning Directorate
Communities and Local Government
Planning and climate change….
“A new wave of local renewable energy
supply and community power schemes
get Government backing today….
…planners must now promote green
growth. Changes to the planning system
will mean all councils will be expected to
provide for on-site renewable energy and
local community energy schemes to help
cut carbon emissions from new
developments.”
Yvette Cooper
Minister for Housing and Planning
17 December 2007
Content……
 tackling climate change
 Planning and Climate Change
- what we want from planning
- what we want on decentralised energy
 next steps
The reality of climate change….
The reality of climate change….
Stern warns that climate change is far worse
than 2006 estimate……
“We badly underestimated the degree of damages
and the risks of climate change," said Lord Stern
in a speech in London yesterday. "All of the links
in the chain are on average worse than we
thought a couple of years ago.”
Independent
Thursday, 17 April 2008
The reality of climate change….
… for the UK:
 warmer temperatures
 wetter winters and drier
summers
 higher sea levels, leading to the
flooding of coastal areas and
floodplains
 extremes of weather such as
heavy rain, heatwaves and
gales
Tackling climate change….
“Climate change represents a potentially
catastrophic threat, but it is within our control to
address it - and address it we must.”
Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP
Securing the Future The UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy 2005
“Our mission is, in truth, historic and world
changing - to build, over the next fifty years and
beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is
not overdramatic to say that the character and
course of the coming century will be set by how
we measure up to this challenge.”
Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP
Speech at the Foreign Press Association in London19 November 2007
Tackling climate change….
avoid lock-in to a high carbon economy
show is
possible to cut
emissions
without
unacceptable
economic pain
showing leadership,
taking action…
diversify energy sources, help deliver energy security
energy
efficiency
measures to
save money
across the
economy
Tackling climate change….
Kyoto Protocol agreement by all Annex
1 (developed) countries
Agreement to cut GHG emissions by 5%
by 2008-12 on 1990 levels
UK expected to meet its target
UK share of this is 12.5% reduction
EU emissions targets
EU renewables targets
20% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020
30% reduction if there is international agreement
20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020
(UK expected to deliver c. 15%)
Tackling climate change….
•
32% by 2020 and 60% [80%?] by 2050. Five-year carbon
Targets and budgets
Committee on Climate
Change
Reporting
Enabling Powers
Long and medium term targets: CO2 emission reductions of 26budgets to set out trajectory
•
2020 and 2050 CO2 reduction targets enshrined in law
•
Independent body to advise Government on its carbon budgets
and where least cost savings could be made
•
Committee on Climate Change to report annually to Parliament
on UK’s progress towards targets in relation to carbon budgets
•
Government to report at least every 5 years on adaptation
•
Introduce emissions trading schemes more quickly and easily
Tackling climate change….
Climate Change Planning Policy
Ecotowns
Zero Carbon New Buildings:
Homes by 2016
Non-Residential by 2019
Planning White
Paper, Planning Bill
Climate Change Duty
Microgeneration
Strategy
Permitted
Development
Rights
Carbon Emissions
Reduction Target
Renewables
Obligation
Enhanced Capital
Allowances
Climate Change Levy
VAT reduction
Climate Change
Agreements
CHP
Strategy
Carbon Reduction
Commitment
Energy Bill
Biomass and Waste
Strategies
Environmental
Technologies Institute
Environmental
Transformation Fund
EU Emissions
Trading Scheme
Climate Change Bill
Local Authority Performance
Management Frameworks
Planning and climate change….
Planning and climate change….
What we want from
planning….
“an attractive environment for
innovation and for the private
sector to bring forward
investment, including in
renewable and low-carbon
technologies and supporting
infrastructure”
Planning and climate change….
What we want from
planning….
“new development, its spatial
distribution, location and design
planned to limit carbon dioxide
emissions”
Planning and climate change….
What we want from
planning….
“new development planned to
make good use of opportunities
for decentralised and
renewable or low carbon
energy”
From Greenpeace
Planning and climate change….
What we want from
planning….
“urban growth and sustainable
rural developments that help
secure the fullest possible use
of sustainable transport for
moving freight, public transport,
cycling and walking; and, which
overall, reduce the need to
travel, especially by car”
Planning and climate change….
What we want from
planning….
“new development to be
planned to minimise future
vulnerability in a changing
climate”
Planning for local energy….
Planning for local energy….
Decision-Making Principle:
Planning to support delivery of
timetable for cutting carbon
emissions from new buildings:
 new homes to be zero
carbon by 2016
 ambition for all new public
buildings to be zero carbon
by 2018
 ambition for all new nondomestic to be zero carbon
by 2019
“new development should be
planned to make good use of
opportunities for decentralised
and renewable or low-carbon
energy”
Decentralised energy supply - energy supply from
local renewable and local low-carbon sources (ie
on-site and near-site, but not remote off-site)
usually on a relatively small scale. Broad term
used to denote a diverse range of technologies,
including micro-renewables, which can locally
serve an individual building, development or wider
community and includes heating and cooling
energy.
Planning for local energy….
What’s expected of regional
planners :
 regional strategies tested on
their carbon performance
 framework for sub-regional and
local planning to focus
substantial new development on
locations…..”where energy can
be gained from decentralised
energy supply systems or
where there is clear potential for
this to be realised”
Planning for local energy….
What’s expected of local
councils:
 evidence-based understanding
of local feasibility and potential
of decentralised energy to
supply new development in their
area
 in allocating land for
development take into account
extent to which existing or
planned opportunities for
decentralised energy could
contribute to the energy supply
of development
Planning for local energy….
Planning for local energy….
Planning for local energy….
What’s expected of local councils:
 ‘Merton-style’ targets ie percentage of energy to be used in new
development to come from decentralised energy; but avoid
prescription on technologies and be flexible
 development area or site-specific targets where the potential is bigger
than area wide target; and in doing so:
- look to opportunities for utilizing decentralised systems and to new
opportunities to supply proposed and existing development (including
co-locating potential heat customers and heat suppliers)
- can set specific requirements to facilitate connection where fair and
reasonable
Planning for local energy….
What’s expected of developers in designing new development:
 “comply with adopted policies on local requirements for decentralised energy
supply and for sustainable buildings”
- unless it can be demonstrated having regard to type of development
involved and its design, that not feasible or viable
 “take account of landform, layout, building orientation, massing and
landscaping to minimise energy consumption, including maximising cooling
and avoiding solar gain in the summer and overall…”
 “….be planned so as to minimise carbon dioxide emissions through giving
careful consideration to how all aspects of development form, together with
the proposed density and mix of development, support opportunities for
decentralised and renewable or low-carbon energy supply”
Planning for local energy….
Safeguarding environmental performance:
 when determining planning applications, planning authorities should consider
likely impact of proposed development on:
– existing, or other proposed, development, and its renewable or low-carbon
energy supply;
– existing, or proposed, sources of renewable or low-carbon energy supply
 where proposed development would prejudice renewable or low-carbon
energy supplies, consideration should be given to how proposal could be
amended to make it acceptable or, where not practicable, to whether planning
permission should be refused
Next steps……