1 September 2004

GOVERNMENT ISSUES REVISED PLANNING GUIDANCE TO BOOST RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS

The Government has strengthened its support for renewable energy projects in a revised Planning Policy Statement (PPS 22).

The aim of the revised document is to more accurately reflect Government support for renewables.

It states that the planning system should seek to facilitate such development and that the wider environmental and economic benefits of renewable energy projects should be given significant weight in the planning process.

It also states that, with regard to local planning policy, such policies should promote, rather than restrict, renewable energy development.

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The Department for Trade and Industry has also launched a new web-site for planners and councillors to promote the benefits of renewable energy projects within the planning process.

To visit the web-site click here. www.dti.gov.uk/renewable/planners&councillors.html

-last updated 1.09.04