Policy information sourced from the Dartford Development Policies Plan
DP11: Sustainable Technology and Construction
Development should be well located, innovatively and sensitively designed and constructed, to tackle climate change, minimise flood risk and natural resource use and must aim to increase water efficiency. Reflecting water scarcity and development levels in the region, and to deliver the aims of Core Strategy Policy CS25, all dwellings (Class C3) created in Dartford will be permitted only where they demonstrate delivery of the water efficiency requirement level of 110 litres per person per day.
In determining applications for small and large-scale low/ zero carbon technology and installations, the economic and environmental benefits of the proposal will be weighed against the individual and cumulative impact of the development. Development will only be permitted in line with national policy and where the following factors have been satisfactorily taken into consideration:
- Character, and visual and residential amenity
- Landscape, topography, and heritage
- Shadow flicker and glare (if relevant)
- Electronic and telecommunication interference/ navigation and aviation issues (if relevant)
- Quality of agricultural land taken (where applicable)
- Ensuring installations are removed when no longer in use and land is then restored
- Potential effects on Policies Map designations/ protected sites or areas in the Borough including Green Belt, heritage assets, and SSSIs/ areas of high biodiversity value, and
- Other relevant local environmental and amenity factors (Policy DP5) accounting for mitigations proposed, for example in relation to biodiversity.
Planning applications for low/ zero carbon technology and installations, or for major developments with potentially significant water supply, flooding or wastewater implications, will only be permitted where they set out how appropriate and effective mitigation/ management is to be delivered.
For more information please see the Development Policies Plan