Planning and Energy Act 2008

Planning and Energy Act 2008^[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to enable local planning authorities to set requirements for energy use and energy efficiency in local plans.
Citation	2008 c 21
Territorial extent	England and Wales[2]
Dates
Royal assent	13 November 2008
Commencement	13 November 2008[3]
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Planning and Energy Act 2008 (c 21) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Section 1(1) provides:

A local planning authority in England may in their development plan documents, and a local planning authority in Wales may in their local development plan, include policies imposing reasonable requirements for -

(a) a proportion of energy used in development in their area to be energy from renewable sources in the locality of the development;

(b) a proportion of energy used in development in their area to be low carbon energy from sources in the locality of the development;

(c) development in their area to comply with energy efficiency standards that exceed the energy requirements of building regulations.

Section 1(2) defines the expressions "energy efficiency standards" and "energy requirements".

Section 1(3) defines the expression "appropriate national authority".

This section defines the expressions "development plan documents" and "local development plans". It provides that they have the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and as in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 respectively.

• Planning Acts

• Halsbury's Statutes,
• Current Law Statutes Annotated 2008

• The Planning and Energy Act 2008, as amended from the National Archives.
• The Planning and Energy Act 2008, as originally enacted from the National Archives.

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