CHPA Jun 05

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Planning and Community Energy

• The power of Local Government
• The power of planning
• Mobilisation to combat climate change

Adrian Hewitt London Borough of Merton
CHPA - Jun 05
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Merton UDP policy PE13 Adopted Oct 2003 All
new non-residential development above a threshold
of 1,000 sqm will be expected to incorporate
renewable energy production equipment to provide
at least 10 of predicted energy requirements.
Willow Lane
Croydon the best to date - but not quite
perfect The Council will expect all development
(either new build or conversion) with a
floor-space of 1000m2 or ten or more residential
units to incorporate renewable energy production
equipment to provide at least 10 of the
predicted energy requirements.
Planning Policy Statement 22 Section 8 Local
planning authorities may include policies in
local development documents that require a
percentage of the energy to be used in new
residential, commercial or industrial
developments to come from on-site renewable
energy developments.
Barking Dagenham Bromley Bexley -
Corporation of London Croydon Ealing
Enfield Greenwich Haringey Havering
Lambeth Lewisham Southwark Sutton - Tower
Hamlets - Waltham Forest - Westminster
East Midlands planning conference De Montfort
University Aug 04
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Carbon NOT energy Primary energy demand of a
development measured in terms of the carbon
burden.
Grid CO2
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Relevance to CHP and Community Energy
Government Office for London Planning conference
- Feb 05
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District Heat Power first phase - South East
Merton
Pyrolysis CHP waste disposal energy
Said Business School, Oxford University - Feb 05
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Levelling the HPR using a 10 policy
A LA ESCo works if you can sell lots of
electricity
LETIT EU conference Terni Italy - May 05
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A DHP scheme can be a symbiotic relationship
between LA ESCo and developers
Mitcham town centre regeneration 600 homes
600 boilers 750,000
Section 106 500,000 to fund LA stake in ESCo
ESCo finances the Community Energy scheme
Combined Heat Power Association conference -
Jun 05
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Pro-active planning for Community Energy and CHP
Core inclusions in site briefs The Council will
expect the developer to explore the feasibility
of incorporating renewable energy infrastructure
and combined heat and power technology.
Merton will determine the feasibility
Section 18 Local planning authorities and
developers should consider the opportunity for
incorporating renewable energy projects in all
new developments. Local planning authorities
should specifically encourage such schemes
through positively expressed policies in local
development documents. - SPDs and Site Briefs
are local development documents!!
Edinburgh planning conference - Feb 05
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What about the existing housing stock?
Rising fossil fuel bills
DHP distribution route
40 House Strategy Environmental Change
Institute (ECI) - dovetails with the 10 policy
Combined Heat Power Association conference -
Jun 05
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Climate change Recognise the threat and mobilise
to combat the threat
Mobilization conscription 10
etc Mobilization economic wealth Mobilization
societal collaboration CE schemes
To mobilize we must develop a technique and
methods so simple that the citizen of good common
sense can readily grasp the idea.
General George Catlett Marshall
Biography General of the Army by Ed Cray
First Cooper Square Press ISBN 0-8154-1042-5
Adrian Hewitt LBM - RIBA - Feb 05