The City of London Corporation has now adopted the Planning for Sustainability Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).
This provides guidance on how developers should approach the City Corporation’s sustainability policies in their planning applications, including the design and construction of buildings. This will ensure that the City’s buildings are at the forefront of responding to climate change which has some intense impacts on the dense urban environment. The policies include public transport, streets and walkways, waste, flood risk and climate change.
The City prioritises schemes that address retrofit and reuse, energy use, circular economy, urban greening and biodiversity.
The City has consulted widely with experts and the public and are still focussed on achieving net zero for the Square Mile by 2040 whilst building climate resilience and championing sustainable growth.
Developed and refined in consultation with the public, industry experts, and through insights gained from shaping the best-in-class sustainable building proposals that have come forward, the SPD is a critical step in supporting the Square Mile to achieve net zero by 2040, build climate resilience and champion sustainable growth.
Read more details here on the City’s website:
LCAG supports the work to reach net zero and will respond to consultations and monitor issues that are brought forward to achieve this.
Alderman Alison Gowman