Guildford - P-NE2 - Dark Night Skies

Policy information sourced from the Puttenham Neighbourhood Plan

P-NE2 - Dark Night Skies

Excluding householder planning applications, where planning permission is required for exterior lighting installations on land outside of the village Settlement Boundary (as defined in Figure 3 above), planning permission will only be granted where it is satisfactorily demonstrated that:

The external lighting is necessary forsafety purposes or for the essential functioning of a business; and
Where an external lighting scheme demonstrates that the scheme is designed to minimise light pollution, its impact on the environment and wildlife and does not detract from the unlit environment of the Parish or exceed ILP obtrusive light limitation guidance for E1 Environment Zone.

For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan