Adaptation or Mitigation

1. Climate Change Adaption, a service perspective – the role of Land Use PlanningBarry Wyatt, Strategic Head of Development services Stroud DC

2. Adaptation or Mitigation • Mitigation – Actions to reduce CO2 emissions. • Adaptation - Actions to respond to the inevitable consequences of climate change. • Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience - Decentralised renewable energy

3. How Can Planning Influence Adaptation ? • Reacting to development proposals via the Development Control process, refuse or grant permission but on policy grounds! • Requiring specified standards or assessment criteria to be met. • Proactively allocating land to promote specific uses, functions and structures. • Protecting existing uses and structures

4. Challenges of the Local Development Framework LDF • Core Strategy, LDDs, SPDs, DPDs • Regional Spatial Strategy • Inter boundary issues • Skills and evidence base • Policy Lag

5. Policy • Plethora of documents • Zero Carbon via the following CO2 reductions targets:- 25% improvement in 2010CSH energy level 3 44% improvement in 2013CSH energy level 4 Zero carbon by 2016 CSH energy level 6

6. Climate Change Impacts • Rise in sea level • Wetter winters • Higher temperatures • Dryer summers • Warmer winters • Increased frequency of extreme weather events

7. Rise In Sea Level and Wetter Winters • Level 1 Strategic and local flood risk assessments informing the LDF and subsequent DPDs. • Level 2 flood risk assessments • Surface Water Management Plans • Flood mitigation measures (SUDS and beyond! Potential EA conflict) • Strategies for relocating the un-defendable, and the socio economic impacts! • Perceived risks and insurance

9. Higher temperatures • Impact on living space environment - Layout and location of developments to keep cool. • Increased energy demand for cooling – new designs, energy assessments and renewable provision. (HIPs, EPCs, Changes to the Building Regulations) • Agricultural change and landscape impact – protecting valuable landscapes and biodiversity (nature map and corridors) • Pressures from recreation and tourism – enabling polices

10. Dryer summers • Soil shrinkage – structural problems resulting in high redevelopment churn rates. • Increased demand for water – decentralised supply to support new development at a site and community level.

14. Warmer winters • Impact on biodiversity and the need for planning to respond – protection of sites from development, Impact assessments • Impact on choice of building materials

15. Extreme Weather Events • Disruption to transport – minimising the need to travel through the location of development. • Disruption to services – decentralised provision of energy and water supplies. • Flooding (river) – location of development and development type • Flooding (surface) – SWMPs, attenuation and resilient drainage

18. Can We Deliver • Increased development costs and competing planning objectives, need to balance with delivery (Para 32 PPS1) • Renewables on or off site • Technical challenges • Skills and capacity gap • Capacity of the market to support Councils • Knowledge and understanding of both officers and members • Is the market driving change? • New forms, following new functions

23. Planning and Building Control • Para 33 PPS1 (supplement) ‘Planning authorities and those responsible for implementing the building regulations should work closely to ensure integrated and timely decisions under complimentary regimes. • What future for Building Control • Approved Inspectors • Enforcement practicalities • New Focus on Building Regulations, performance trading, whole house calcs

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