Climate change

Publication Year

2019

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on addressing the impacts of climate change through the identification of suitable mitigation and adaptation measures in the planning process. Covers: the importance of planning in considering climate change; climate change legislation; addressing the challenges of climate change through the Local Plan; integrating adaptation and mitigation approaches; dealing with the uncertainty of climate risks when promoting adaptation in particular developments; evidence of risks arising from climate change available to support local plan-making; identifying appropriate mitigation measures in plan-making; how energy efficiency improvements to existing buildings can be supported; government's national standards for a building's sustainability and for zero carbon buildings; passive solar design; finding out more about climate change mitigation and adaptation; and whether higher energy performance standards than the building regulations can be set in a local plan.

Document History

Last updated: 15 March 2019 - Added new paragraph 012. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/climate-change and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 12 June 2014.

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