Policy information sourced from the Merton Sites and Policies Plan

DM EP1 Opportunities for decentralised energy networks

Links to Core Planning Strategy Policy CS 15 Climate Change

Policy aim

The identification of areas of opportunity for establishing new decentralised energy networks within the borough. To prioritise connection to planned decentralised energy networks.

Policy

The council will identify and promote areas of the greatest opportunity for the development of decentralised energy networks (see Figure 7.1). Within these areas the provision of decentralised energy network infrastructure should be pursued as a higher priority than renewable energy solutions to reduce carbon emissions or a feasibility study should be provided to demonstrate why this is not possible.