This document provides advice and is not planning policy guidance, though references to relevant policy guidance are made throughout. It is intended to provide planning professionals with an overview of the current thinking and state of knowledge on the planning response to climate change.
The Energy Saving Trust has developed separate planners support packs for local authorities in England and Scotland. These free online resources have been designed especially for planning professionals and include briefing notes, information, and case studies that outline how to develop and implement sustainable planning policies
In July 2008, Communities and Local Government published a consultation seeking views on a new national framework to shape the way that regeneration is carried out in England. This document sets out how the Government is taking forward the delivery of the framework.
a self-regulating, unfiltered, non-hierarchical register, open to accredited researchers and analysists, of all apparent and competing risks to sustainability, where these can be backed up by evidence. Not a data-base in the simple sense, the main function is to allow authors to state, register and to promote any specific risk that they have identified in a summarised, common, accessible format, including proposed causal paths. The entry would link back to the authors own site or orginal papers.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is an independent body established under the Climate Change Act to advise the UK Government on setting carbon budgets, and to report to Parliament on the progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The UK Energy Research Centre's mission is to be the UK's pre-eminent centre of research, and source of authoritative information and leadership, on sustainable energy systems.
Our aim is to help you design, construct, update, operate, and manage your facilities at a lower cost, while improving sustainability and reducing CO2 emissions.
The Existing Homes Alliance aims to bring a practical focus to the need for an ambitious programme of low carbon refurbishment across the UK’s housing stock, in line with the UK's need to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050
Launched on 1 April 2006, BERRs Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 1 will run over four years and replaces the previous DTI Clear Skies and Solar PV grant programmes. Open to householders, public, not for profit and commercial organisations across the UK (except the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man), the programme will demonstrate how energy efficiency and microgeneration can work hand in hand to create low carbon buildings.
The Renewable Energy Foundation is a registered charity encouraging the development of renewable energy and energy conservation whilst emphasizing that such development must be governed by the fundamental principles of sustainability.
The 'Merton Rule' is the groundbreaking planning policy, pioneered by the London Borough of Merton, which requires the use of renewable energy onsite to reduce annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the built environment.
This site will help both employers and employees within the industry to identify their current skills, and provides a catalogue of related learning opportunities from suppliers who have linked their courses to the site.
Every Actions Counts provides advice and support to voluntary and community organisations which are looking to reduce their impact on the environment, tackle climate change and improve their local area.