Climate Change and Energy

Category Overview

Below are the questions within Climate Change and Energy. The questions are grouped by issue.

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To ensure that new developments are appropriately adapted to the impacts of present and future climate change and to minimise their own impact on greenhouse gases, flooding, heat gain, water resources and water quality.

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Flooding
1.1	To ensure that sites and developments take due account of flood risk, and where it is present, take appropriate mitigation measures.
1.2	To reduce the risk of flooding on proposed development sites and adjacent areas of land
Urban Heat Island
1.3	To reduce the urban heat island effect inherent to urban areas through passive design measures.
Water Efficiency
1.4	To reduce the overall consumption of clean water for non-potable uses through the use of grey water recycling.
1.5	To reduce the overall consumption of clean water for non-potable uses through the use of rainwater harvesting.
Sustainable Energy
1.6	To increase the overall efficiency of the development through energy efficient design and management.
1.7	To increase the overall efficiency of the development through energy efficient design and management.
1.8	To ensure the development does not increase the carbon (CO₂) footprint of the city from energy use.
1.9	To promote reduction in CO₂ emissions from energy use.
1.10	To increase the use of sustainable heating techniques.
1.11	To increase the use of sustainable heating techniques.
Site Infrastructure
1.12	To encourage the integration of low and zero carbon technologies during the design stage.
1.13	To encourage the future use of active solar technologies where they are not initially supplied.
1.14	To evolve an energy management scheme and provide the public with easy access to low and zero carbon energy information.
1.15	To provide easy access to site service and communications infrastructure, with minimal requirement disruption and need for reconstruction, and allowing for future growth in services.
1.16	To ensure that the masterplan considers the site wide distribution of on-site produced renewable energy.
1.17	To evolve an energy management scheme and provide the public with easy access to renewable energy information.

This checklist has been replaced

All planning applications received from 13 July 2011 requiring the submission of a checklist at Validation stage must include a new version of the checklist.

Further information is available from the Brighton & Hove Sustainability Checklist website.

This checklist will remain online to allow existing users to reference their existing projects. New accounts and projects can no longer be created.