Policy information sourced from City of London Local Plan
DM 15.2 Energy and CO2 Emissions Assessments
- Development design must take account of location, building orientation, internal layouts and landscaping to reduce likely energy consumption.
- For all major development energy assessments must be submitted with the application demonstrating:
- energy efficiency – showing the maximum improvement over current Building Regulations to achieve the required Fabric Energy Efficiency Standards;
- carbon compliance levels required to meet national targets for zero carbon development using low and zero carbon technologies, where feasible;
- where on-site carbon emission reduction is unviable, offsetting of residual CO2 emissions through ‘allowable solutions’ for the lifetime of the building to achieve national targets for zero-carbon homes and non-domestic buildings. Achievement of zero carbon buildings in advance of national target dates will be encouraged;
- anticipated residual power loads and routes for supply.
For more information please see the Local Plan