Including 7 closely related terms such as energy use, energy consumption, and energy use.
… is committed to progressively decarbonising its own energy supply by upscaling its investment in renewable electricity and heat, and plans to develop and deliver a 10-year programme for retrofitting its own estate and housing stock to improve energy performance. Planning can and must play a key role. The Council adopted the Local Plan: Strategy and Sites 2015-2034 in April 2019. The plan contains…
… for carbon emissions and/or energy use in new homes and changes to how compliance with the standards is assessed1. If and when these or any other relevant changes are made to legislation or national policy, we will review this SPD to ensure it remains up to date. 1 The government consulted on these changes from October 2019 to February 2020 and is considering the next steps. See https…
… including (where applicable): (a) the efficient use of mineral resources and the incorporation of a proportion of recycled and/or secondary aggregates (b) waste minimisation and reusing material derived from excavation and demolition (c) the use of landform, layout, building orientation, massing and landscaping to reduce energy consumption (d) water efficiency that meets the highest national standard…
… Rate (TER) set out in the Building Regulations 2010 (as amended) (Part L). This should be achieved through the provision of appropriate renewable and low carbon energy technologies in the locality of the development and improvements to the energy performance of the building. Where it can clearly be shown that this is not possible, offsite offsetting measures in line with the energy hierarchy should…
… services for space heating/cooling and hot-water systems, ventilation and internal lighting). Unregulated emissions are those arising from energy use other than for building services, such as appliances, cooking and IT equipment. 2.5 The energy and waste hierarchies (see Figure 1) set out the steps that should be followed to make development more sustainable. The key principle in both hierarchies…