… relevant to climate change: • Air Quality Management: Protecting Health and Addressing Climate Change SPD (Adopted). • Design Guide: Addressing Quality and Climate Change SPD. This will provide guidance for on-site renewable energy provision. 3.19 Planning decisions by law have to be made in accordance with the local plan unless ‘material considerations’ indicate otherwise. These material…
… development. Progress 5.20 The Council adopted a Supplementary Planning Document ‘Air Quality Management: Protecting Health and Addressing Climate Change’ in December 2020. This sets out the requirements for air quality assessments to support planning applications and include appropriate mitigations where necessary. Whilst the primary focus of the policy is on the transport impacts of new…
… development in relation to air quality and the direct impacts on health, it is also recognised that there are benefits in relation to addressing climate change. 5.21 The Local Plan focuses development on the borough’s urban areas and supports development of an appropriate scale in the main and small villages. In the four-year period 2017/18 to 2020/2021, figures for the number of new dwellings…