Policy information sourced from The Waltham Forest Blackhorse Lane Area Action Plan
BHL13 Climate Change and Decentralised Energy
A) To ensure proposals in the Blackhorse Lane area minimise carbon emissions, all developments of one or more units or greater than 100sqm should be accompanied by an energy assessment that demonstrates:
- how the resource efficiency, the London Plans stepped carbon reduction targets and high environmental standards set out in Policy DM11 from our Development Management Policies DPD will be met;
- how the proposal will link in the short to medium term to the planned Blackhorse Lane Cluster, and ultimately the Upper Lee Valley Decentralise Energy Network, unless this can be demonstrated to be unfeasible or unviable. Where schemes come forward in advance of this infrastructure, they should be designed to be ‘connection ready’, and agree to connect to the proposed network once this is available. Planning conditions will be imposed to that affect.
B) The Council will work with landowners to secure the delivery of new energy centres that serve clusters of development at the Station Hub and Sutherland Road, as part of the Upper Lee Valley Decentralised Energy Network. Where a landowner provides an energy centre capable of also powering neighbouring sites, any loss of developable area will be reflected in the s106 agreement.
C) Where it has been demonstrated that it is not feasible or viable to connect to the Blackhorse Lane Cluster or Upper Lee Valley Decentralised Energy Network, a sitewide CHP network should be provided, or failing that, communal heating and cooling. In these cases sites should be served from a single energy centre, unless evidence is presented to demonstrate that this is not feasible. Furthermore, they should also be designed to be connection ready so the opportunity to link to the planned energy network once it has been implemented is not lost.
For more information please see the Area Action Plan