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ID sylw: 107873

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Taylor Wimpey Strategic Land

Asiant : Turley

Taylor Wimpey supports the need to measure and reduce the embodied carbon of development. However, the requirements of this policy will require further consideration to ensure that they are feasible and viable.
The proposed targets provided from LETI and RIBA provide a mixture of targets which relate to both the upfront embodied carbon of development (stages A1-A5), as well as the whole life carbon of development (Stages A1-D4), they do not provide a consistent set of targets or consideration. We would also note that these targets are limited to a small number of potential building types and do not necessarily provide sufficient breadth of uses to be able to apply to all development. We would recommend that embodied carbon considerations focus on upfront embodied carbon as further downstream emissions cannot be controlled by the developer.
At this stage the Plan’s evidence base provides no details on the consideration of embodied carbon, or potential costs of achieving the targets set out.
We would recommend that the approach set out in the Warwick Net Zero DPD {Net Zero Carbon DPD-Adopted May 2024 - Download - Warwick District Council.} and supporting SPD {Net Zero Carbon SPD-May 2024 - Download - Warwick District Council.} is followed, this requires the consideration and reduction of upfront embodied carbon, without setting a specific target at this stage. The application of specific targets needs to be fully considered as part of the Plan evidence base and viability assessment.