Renewable energy - Planning and Building guidance
Renewable energy technologies like solar panels, wind turbines,
and biomass heaters are becoming increasingly popular. These are
effective alternatives to fossil fuels and will help you to meet
your own energy requirements and reduce your home's carbon dioxide
emissions. Generating renewable energy can help make your energy
supply more secure, reduce your carbon footprint and also your
energy bills over the longer term.
Below are links to further of sources of
information.
Supplementary Planning Guidance is available for householders
and developers on sustainable development and renewable energy
technologies. The SPG contains a developer’s check list which can
be used to help identify areas where proposals can incorporate
technologies or address the issues covered within the guidance. The
checklist can also be used as a basis for drafting the Statement of
Sustainability which is required for developments above certain
thresholds. Sustainable
Development Planning Guidance - A Developer's Guide
The
Unitary Development Plan contains a number of strategic
policies which are relevant to sustainable development and
renewable energy; specifically these are policies 1, 2 (The
Environment) and 14 (Community and Utility Services). The UDP
also contains
specific policies relating to renewable energy. These are
policies COMM 7 (Wind Generators and Farms) and COMM 8 (Other
Renewable Energy Schemes).
Householders can also apply for grants for
renewable home energy systems such as: 
- Solar Thermal
- Solar PV (photovoltaics – or generating electricity from
sunlight)
- Wind Turbines
- Micro/small Scale Hydro Turbines
- Ground Sourced Heat Pumps
- Room heaters/stoves with automated wood pellet feed
- Wood fuelled boiler systems