Including the closely related terms trees, tree planting, and planting.
… and Design Quality covers design, construction technologies new and existing tree planting as integral to development. Policy E CC SP1 Adapting to Climate Change covers location, layout, design to adapt to climate change, increased flooding, extreme temperatures, biodiversity, water stress/efficiency, shading/cooling, solar gain, Green Infrastructure, resilience to extreme weather, capacity…
…) in order to meet obligations, set out in the UN Paris Climate agreement 2016. This means: that emissions from homes, transport, farming and industry will have to be avoided completely or – where particularly difficult, offset by planting trees or removing CO2 out of the atmosphere. 12. Other Government recent initiatives include: - ‘The Road to Zero’ (setting out measures to reduce…
… in terms of carbon sequestration and reducing the rate of surface water run - off and thereby reducing the flooding impact of severe rainfall. The ALP 2018 policies D SP1, D DM1 and ECC SP1 support tree planting as integral to development and the requirement to consider flooding, drainage and SUDS, biodiversity, including extreme temperatures and shading for example, as part of climate change…
… mitigation and sustainable design. The commissioned Design Guide will provide guidance on principles of using existing natural resources and features, landscape structure and trees and how these become integral parts of schemes and guidance on how they can protect and enhance biodiversity within developments. There are no standards for tree planting – as each development will need to be considered…
… that such a measure would be required through the planning process. There could be net biodiversity gain secured through tree planting in accordance with policy ENV DM5. 6. Improved and more rigorous standards for the prevention of flooding The ALP 2018 policies W DM2 and W DM3 address flooding, sequential and exceptions tests, Strategic Flood Risk Assessment, SUDs design and mitigation of climate…