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Louth Canal Wind Energy Development PPS22: Renewable Energy 5.3.8 Planning Policy Statement 22 outline the Government‟s planning policy framework for renewable energy. 5.3.9 PPS22 advocates the increasing provision of renewable energy to meet the Government‟s commitments on climate change and renewable energy. “Positive planning which facilitates renewable energy developments can contribute to all four elements of the Government‟s sustainable development strategy: Social progress which recognises the needs of everyone – by contributing to the nation‟s energy needs, ensuring all homes are adequately and affordably heated; and providing new sources of energy in remote areas; Effective protection of the environment – by reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases and thereby reducing the potential for the environment to be affected by climate change; Prudent use of natural resources – by reducing the nation‟s reliance on ever diminishing supplies of fossil fuels; and, Maintenance of high and stable levels of economic growth and employment – through the creation of jobs directly related to renewable energy developments, but also in the development of new technologies. In rural areas, renewable energy projects have the potential to play an increasingly important role in the diversification of rural economies.” 5.3.10 The key principles of PPS22 include the statement that the wider environmental and economic benefits of all proposals for renewable energy projects, whatever their scale, are material considerations that should be given significant weight in determining whether proposals should be granted planning permission. PPS5: Planning for the Historic Environment 5.3.11 Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning and the Historic Environment was issued in March 2010 and sets out planning policies on the conservation of the historic environment. PPS5 sets out both plan making policies and development management policies. The development management policies can be applied by local planning authorities in determining planning applications. 5.3.12 Policy HE1 provides the overall objectives of the PPS. Policies HE1.2 and HE1.3 are applicable to developments for renewable energy proposals. HE1.2 Where proposals that are promoted for their contribution to mitigating climate change have a potentially negative effect on heritage assets, local planning authorities should, prior to determination, and ideally during pre-application discussions, help the applicant to identify feasible solutions that deliver similar climate change mitigation but with less or no harm to the significance of the heritage asset and its setting. HE1.3 Where conflict between climate change objectives and the conservation of heritage assets is unavoidable, the public benefit of mitigating the effects of climate change should be weighed against any harm to the significance of heritage assets in accordance with the development management principles in this PPS and national planning policy on climate change. March 2012 14 Planning Supporting Statement Copyright Partnerships for Renewables Development Co. Ltd 2012 ©
Louth Canal Wind Energy Development 5.3.13 Policy HE10: Additional Policy Principles Guiding the consideration of applications for development affecting the setting of designated heritage assets provides guidance for development located within the setting of a designated heritage asset: HE10.1 When considering applications for development that affect the setting of a heritage asset, local planning authorities should treat favourably applications that preserve those elements of the setting that make a positive contribution to or better reveal the significance of the asset. When considering applications that do not do this, local planning authorities should weigh any such harm against the wider benefits of the application. The greater the negative impact on the significance of the heritage asset, the greater the benefits that will be needed to justify approval. HE10.2 Local planning authorities should identify opportunities for changes in the setting to enhance or better reveal the significance of a heritage asset. Taking such opportunities should be seen as a public benefit and part of the process of place shaping. PPS7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas 5.3.14 PPS7 provides specific guidance for development in rural areas, with particular guidance on renewable energy being set out in paragraph 16: “When preparing policies for LDDs and determining planning applications for development in the countryside, local planning authorities should:(i) support development that delivers diverse and sustainable farming enterprises;(ii) support other countryside-based enterprises and activities which contribute to rural economies, and/or promote recreation in and the enjoyment of the countryside;(iii) take account of the need to protect natural resources;(iv) provide for the sensitive exploitation of renewable energy sources in accordance with the policies set out in PPS22; and(v) conserve specific features and sites of landscape, wildlife and historic or architectural value, in accordance with statutory designations.” PPS9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation 5.3.15 PPS 9 sets out the national planning policy on biodiversity and geological conservation. The document states that sites of regional and local biodiversity and geological interest, which include Regionally Important Geological Sites, Local Nature Reserves and Local Sites, have a fundamental role to play in meeting overall national biodiversity targets; contributing to the quality of life and the well-being of the community; and in supporting research and education. 5.3.16 Criteria-based policies should be established in local development documents against which proposals for any development on, or affecting, such sites will be judged. These policies should be distinguished from those applied to nationally important sites. The saved policies from the East Lindsey Local Plan include a policy on local nature reserves and this has been considered later in this chapter. March 2012 15 Planning Supporting Statement Copyright Partnerships for Renewables Development Co. Ltd 2012 ©
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