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Arun District Council

… to address climate change. There is an existing legal duty under various Acts which require planning authorities to address climate change and greenhouse gas reduction through development plan policies. The most significant legislation includes: -  Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 – section 19 (1A) requires local planning authorities to include in their Local Plans “policies designed…

… by 2030 where achievable; 3. Following consideration of this evidence and testing, officers to prepare a review of the development management policies in the Local Plan or a Supplementary Planning Document. 1. BACKGROUND: 1. On 20 July 2019 Full Council agreed a Motion which asked Planning Policy Sub- committee (PPSC) to make recommendations on the feasibility of developing planning…

… including the spatial development strategy, sustainable transport and environment and bio-diversity policies etc. 7. Local Plan policies have been evidenced based (including looking at viability impact on development), subject to sustainability appraisal, public examination and found to be sound with Main Modifications. In addition, the polices were found to be consistent with national policy…

… to be put in place: - a) Government to revise the Building Regulations, for energy efficiency and water efficiency standards to achieve the zero carbon reduction targets and introduction of other associated regulatory and statutory measures; b) Arun will need to prepare a Local Plan Review (and associated SPD) to implement these new sustainable design standards when they are established…

… this. 16. Whilst the process of commissioning evidence for the purpose of developing planning policy within an SPD or an update to the Development Management policies in the Local Plan. is a stand-alone piece of work, this would sit alongside the proposed work that is set out in the report to the Environment and Leisure Working Group on 7 November 2019, which seeks to create a ‘Climate Change…