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Part 5 SOther climate change provisions

Chapter 3SEnergy efficiency

Development plansS

72Development plans: inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions policiesS

After section 3E of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 8) insert—

3FGreenhouse gas emissions policies

A planning authority, in any local development plan prepared by them, must include policies requiring all developments in the local development plan area to be designed so as to ensure that all new buildings avoid a specified and rising proportion of the projected greenhouse gas emissions from their use, calculated on the basis of the approved design and plans for the specific development, through the installation and operation of low and zero-carbon generating technologies..

Commencement Information

I1S. 72 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.S.I. 2009/341, art. 2(3)