

Could the Response Group support local planners? It was AGREED that the DCE partnership should submit a consultation response.ĪCTION: Doug to prepare and submit a partnership response.

This includes proposals for calculating the carbon emissions associated with development, changes to the requirements that need to be met by onshore wind projects, and making it more straightforward to adapt existing buildings to make them more energy efficient. Consultation on reforms to national planning policyĭoug introduced government’s consultation on proposed updates to the National Planning Policy Framework. In those comments DCC supported the review’s recommendation that local government is given a statutory role in carbon reduction, so long so the necessary resources to deliver that role are provided. Doug said that Devon County Council (DCC) had been invited to submit comments to government via ADEPT. Many of these align with the Devon Carbon Plan. The paper highlighted pertinent recommendations from the Review for national government about the role of local government and spatial planning in net-zero. Torridge and North Devon District Councilsĭoug introduced a summary paper of the Skidmore Review that had been circulated to the Response Group. Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership South Hams and West Devon District Councils Net-Zero Task Force – South West Business Councilĭevon County Council (Economy and Enterprise)
