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Achieving resilience to climate
risks through local plans and
supplementary planning
guidance
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Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
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Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Presentation contents
— Other training modules in the series
— Climate change adaptation – National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and National
Planning Policy Guidance (NPPG)
— Climate change adaptation and strategic planning – what are the issues?
— What strategic plans can we apply this to?
— Climate change adaptation and evidence base
— Climate change adaptation actions in plans and policies
— Further information sources
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Other training modules in the series
— Statutory drivers for adaptation
— Making the business case for adaptation
— Green Infrastructure as an adaptation response
— How developments and buildings can be adapted so that they
are resilient to climate change and extreme weather
— Addressing weather and climate risks through neighbourhood
planning
— Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans
and supplementary planning guidance
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Learning objectives
— Understand national planning policy context for
climate change adaptation.
— Understand how adaptation to different climate
risks can be promoted through strategic planning.
— Know where to get data and information to ensure
climate change adaptation is properly integrated
into the plan evidence base.
— Know how to develop plans and policies that
promote adaptation to climate risks.
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Climate change adaptation planning policy for strategic
planning
National Planning Policy Framework:
— Local plans should take account of climate
change over the long term.
— Should consider a range of impacts, including
flood risk, coastal change, water supply,
biodiversity and landscape.
— Manage risks through suitable adaptation
measures, including green infrastructure.
— Spatial allocations for development should follow
a sequential approach to minimise flood risk,
considering climate impacts.
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Climate change adaptation planning policy for strategic
planning
National Planning Practice Guidance ‘Climate
Change’ guidance for Local Plans:
— Consider climate risks over the lifetime of the
development when:
— Allocating development sites
— Developing design policies for
developments and public realm
— Climate risks could have implications for
the following during the lifetime of the
development:
— Availability of water and water infrastructure
— Flood risk and coastal change
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
CCA and strategic planning – what are the issues?
Gary Telford / Alamy
Libby Welch / Alamy
M. Brodie / Alamy
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Adapting to climate risks - role for strategic planning
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Examples of planning responses for adaptation in
strategic plans
geogphotosfilm / Alamy
Peter D Noyce / Alamy
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
What strategic plans can we deliver these responses
through?
City/Town/District level:
— Local plan policies and land allocations and supporting
evidence base and sustainability appraisal.
— Supplementary Planning Guidance for local pan-wide
policies.
— Non-statutory strategies such as Green Infrastructure
Strategies and Growth Strategies.
Neighbourhood level:
— Area Action Plans and Neighbourhood Plans
— Supplementary Planning Guidance for site allocations
— Masterplans for large development sites
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Climate change adaptation and your planning evidence
base
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Data on climate risks to inform your evidence base
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Spatial planning responses to climate risks identified in
evidence base
— Locating development outside of flood risk areas.
— Ensuring new development is flood resistant.
— Encouraging retrofit of existing buildings at risk (e.g. at change
of use or refurbishment).
— Minimising additional water demand.
— Minimising the Urban Heat Island and heat stress.
— Using green space to adapt to a changing climate – (e.g. %
requirement, area plans or design guides, CIL).
— Policies and SPD might cover anything not covered by
building regs
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Flood risk – spatial planning responses
— Consider current and future flood risk in
SFRA
— Locate sensitive land uses away from
areas of high flood risk
— Design of buildings to reduce risk
— Manage drainage around developments
— Resilience in refurbishment as well as
new build
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Water resources – spatial planning responses
— Ensure major developments have sufficient water resource.
— Improving water efficiency of plumbing, appliances and water features.
— Encourage reuse of grey water and rainwater harvesting where scale of makes it efficient
to do so.
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Overheating/Urban heat Island - spatial planning
responses
— Ensure buildings can cope with
high temperatures through:
— the use of landform, layout,
design, construction materials
and efficient ventilation
systems; and,
— appropriate design and use of
vegetation and open space.
— Green space, street trees and
planting for example % requirement
area plans or design guides for
green space
Jeffrey Blackler / Alamy
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Local Plan Policies - Examples
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Supplementary Planning Documents - Examples
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Strategic Land Use Decision Making - Examples
Achieving resilience to climate risks through local plans and
supplementary planning guidance
Conclusion – Key messages to take away
— Develop policy that will work in practice – check
with development management teams.
— Also check your policy with agents, developers
and other relevant external groups (e.g. EA).
— Make policy and guidance practical and flexible.
— Keep a focus on planning remit - don’t stray into
building regs.
— Ensure policies are sound – evidence is key to
this.
— Test run it so you can iron out any problems,
then develop final policy and supporting SPD.