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Policy CS1: Sustainable Development - Climate Change
This policy sets out various measures for tackling climate change over the plan period. These include a requirement for new developments to incorporate energy conservation and efficiency measures, seeking opportunities to develop renewable energy-generating capacity, supporting the implementation of a number of related plans and strategies and promoting a modal shift to reduce carbon emissions. It also proposes a requirement that all major developments should achieve a target of at least 15% of their energy requirements through decentralised renewable or low carbon energy sources where feasible and viable. Gladman would emphasise that policies such as these should comply with the provisions set out in paragraphs 173 and 174 of the Framework. These require that pursuing sustainable development requires careful attention to be paid to viability and costs in plan-making, and should

assess the likely cumulative impacts (my emphasis) on development of such policies and standards so that the viability of the plan itself is not compromised through making the proposed scale of development unviable. The Inspector needs to be satisfied that this is indeed the case.