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Planning policies for sustainable building: guidance for local development frameworks – UK

Introduction

Guidance on how to integrate benchmarks for sustainable building, the design and construction of buildings and their sites, into local development frameworks.

Description

The document provides advice on how the new system of local development frameworks can address sustainable building, by using the policy directions contained in planning policy statements (PPS) and regional spatial strategies (RSS). Sustainable building is defined as the environmental design and construction of buildings and sites, to meet the government's overarching environmental objectives to reduce resource use and environmental impact.

The guidance discusses the critical success factors for adoption of policies and for policy implementation. It includes a series of texts and references that provide potential content for development plan documents (DPDs) and spatial planning documents (SPDs). Policy approaches are suggested for:

design and construction practice
carbon emissions
water
material efficiency in construction
household and commercial recycling
environmental protection and enhancement
adaptation to climate change

Contact info

Local Government Association
Phone: +44 20 7664 3000
info@lga.gov.uk

Publication date

01/10/2006

Article info
Author: EDAW, Faber-Maunsell and POS Enterprises

Links

Local Government Association

Planning policies for sustainable building: guidance for local development frameworks (PDF, Eng, 688 KB)

Document type

policy

Themes

Urban Policy > Urban environment

Keywords

Environmental sustainability