Issue and Options 2023
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Q-C3.1: Yes. Building Regulations Part L, published in December 2021, sets out an ambitious target of reducing carbon emissions for dwellings. These changes are interim measures and will lead up to the Future Home and Buildings Standard, which is set to be introduced in 2025. These will require further cuts to carbon emissions, whereby all new dwellings will need to reduce emissions by at least 75% and the use of fossil fuel-based heating will be banned. It is anticipated that building regulations will evolve further to achieve carbon net zero for new builds in the future. To ensure that developments can still be delivered when they are unable, for justifiable reasons, to achieve carbon net zero, the council should seek to identify land for carbon offsetting. Any policy requirements relating to achieving carbon net zero should be set out with a sufficient level of flexibility to allow for carbon offsetting, if it can be robustly justified that achieving carbon net zero is not viable or achievable.
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Do not have a policy and allow new development to comply with the national building regulation requirements, which may change over time.
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Q-C7: The preferred option should be determined with reference to a robust evidence base, including in relation to the viability. More evidence is required. Q-C9.1: Option C9.1b is appropriate as new legislation will deal with this matter. Q-C9.2: As reflected in the previous Knight Frank response (ref. 2102), there is a clear emphasis on climate change adaptation and mitigation set out in the Planning Act 2008 and further commitments set out in the Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener (October 2021), which should be reflected in the council’s planning policies without duplicating existing requirements or introducing additional or onerous measures that adversely affect the viability of development proposals. The councils should also consider Part L Buildings Regulations when developing policies, to ensure that developments are not overburdened with additional measures that go beyond the requirements of national policy, regulations and guidance. Any policies relating to climate responsive design should be based upon a proportionate evidence base to be found ‘sound’, including an assessment of their impacts upon viability for individual sites and on a whole-plan basis to ensure other policies are not adversely affected.
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Q-C10.1: The SWLP should not be imposing additional requirements over and above national guidance.
As stated in the previous Knight Frank response (ref. 2102), Climate Change and the integration of SuDS within developments should be considered in line with national policy and guidance. PPG para 055 ref. ID 7-055-20220825 states that SuDS provide benefits for water quantity and quality, biodiversity and amenity, with multifunctional SuDS delivering a wider range of additional biodiversity and environmental net gains.
