Planning Renewables workshop downloads

This is the downloads page for the Renewable Energy Workshops for Planners and Councillors, where you can find PDF versions of the recent presentations.

Throughout 2009/10 the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) managed a training and information programme specifically designed for the planning community on the issues surrounding planning, climate change and renewable energy.

The programme included a series of training workshops for public sector planning officers and councillors, which included three workshops:

Advanced planning for wind

Introduction to energy  |  Wind energy basics  |  National and regional policy overview  |  Impact of wind farms on residential amenity  | Scoping and evaluating a wind project EIA  |  Assessing landscape and visual impacts  |  Managing the impact of wind turbines on aviation and communications

Planning for biomass

Overview of policy context for biomass energy  |  Overview of biomass and planning issues  |  Overview of energy from waste and planning issues  |  Overview of anaerobic digestion and planning issues  |  Biomass feedstocks and sustainability considerations  |  Case study - anaerobic digestion application

Renewable energy: policy and evidence base (officers)

Overview of national and regional policy for renewable energy  |  Renewable and low carbon energy in the PPS1 supplement practice guide  |  Renewables and planning policy - a review of current practice  |  Developing an evidence base  |  Assessing resources and constraints  |  Developing a local evidence base and decentralised energy targets  |  Renewable policies and the tests of soundness  |  Delivery mechanisms and monitoring