Sustainability Supplementary Planning Document Consultation
As a significant amount of carbon is emitted by things requiring planning permission, either through their construction or usage.
This SPD specifies the environmental requirements for new developments, setting out the measures which can help improve this, and encouraging more ambitious measures.
The measures cover a range of areas including:
- design, drainage and flooding
- active and sustainable travel
- climate change adaptation
It also includes the sustainability requirements that developers must deliver when planning their developments, as well as more aspirational considerations that would be taken into account when planning applications are considered.
We will be consulting on the draft Sustainability Supplementary Planning Document from Friday 8 November to Friday 20 December.
We have also provided a summary of the chapters to help.