Policy information sourced from the Bexley Local Plan
SP14: Mitigating and adapting to climate change
- The Council will actively pursue the delivery of sustainable development by:
- supporting developments that achieve zero-carbon and demonstrate a commitment to drive down greenhouse gas emissions to net zero;
- administering the borough’s carbon offset fund, ring-fencing payments to implement projects that deliver greenhouse gas reductions;
- investigating opportunities for the funding and development of decentralised energy networks in the borough; and, supporting the provision of infrastructure, including safeguarding routes and land for such use, where necessary;
- supporting new and enhanced green infrastructure, including greening of development sites such as living roofs, and the contribution green infrastructure can make to managing flood risk and surface water, and to the mitigation of the urban heat island effect;
- supporting integrated water management (IWM) through a coordinated and holistic approach to land and water management, including managing water storage, supply, wastewater, flood risk, quality of watercourses and water bodies and the wider environment;
- applying the recommendations of Bexley’s Strategic Flood Risk Assessment, Local Flood Risk Management Strategy, and Integrated Water Management Strategy;
- directing new development into the most sustainable locations by applying the flood risk sequential test across the borough and the exception test to the site allocations in this Local Plan;
- following the sequential approach to flood risk management advocated in national planning policy and its associated practice guidance;
- working with the Environment Agency and others to ensure the recommendations of the TE2100 Plan are implemented in new and existing developments, to keep communities safe from flooding in a changing climate and improving the local environment; and,
- supporting the protection of key infrastructure assets from the risks of flooding.
For more information please see the Bexley Local Plan