Planning Policy Statement: Consultation

Abstract

In December 2007, the Government published Planning Policy Statement (PPS): Planning and Climate Change supplement to PPS 1. This placed tackling climate change at the heart of planning. Its cross-cutting importance was signalled by making it a supplement to PPS 1: Delivering Sustainable Development, which sets out the overarching planning policies on the delivery of sustainable development through the planning system. 2. This consultation document brings together the Planning and Climate Change supplement to PPS 1 with the 2004 PPS 22 on Renewable Energy into a new draft PPS on Planning for a Low Carbon Future in a Changing Climate. This new PPS will replace the 2007 and 2004 PPS and it is proposed that it will become a consolidated supplement to PPS 1. This will support and provide an overarching framework for PPS 25 on Development and Flood Risk and emerging planning policies on green infrastructure (to be consulted on separately). 3. The reason we are consulting on a new PPS two years after publishing the Planning and Climate Change supplement, is because a significant amount of new legislation and policy has been put in place that affects planning and the policies that underpin plan-making and development management. The list below, whilst not exhaustive, demonstrates how much has happened since we last consulted on planning policies for climate change.