Policy information sourced from Thurrock Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development
CSTP 26 - RENEWABLE OR LOW-CARBON ENERGY GENERATION
As part of the shift to low-carbon future and to tackle climate change, the Council will encourage opportunities to generate energy from non-fossil fuel and low-carbon sources.
- The Council will promote and facilitate proposals for centralised renewable or low-carbon energy schemes at appropriate locations and standards, including but not exclusively at Tilbury and London Gateway.
- The Council will promote the delivery of renewable and low-carbon energy developments utilising technology such as solar panels, biomass heating, small-scale wind turbine, photovoltaic cells, Combined Heat and Power and other methods.
- The Council will promote the delivery of district energy networks in appropriate locations, in order to increase the proportion of energy delivered from renewable and low-carbon sources in the Borough.
- The Council will ensure that effort is made to achieve a significant carbon reduction in all new development, at least matching the national targets.
The Council will view an application as unacceptable where it produces a significant adverse impact that cannot be mitigated, including cumulative landscape or visual impacts.
For more information please see the Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development