From 8th May 2013, C-Plan went live across local planning authorities in Yorkshire and Humberside. In a phased roll out, it will begin with 6 local planning authorities including Sheffield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Scarborough, Hambleton and Richmondshire in the first tranche of the roll out. The second tranche of the roll out will be following shortly.
C-Plan provides a consistent format for developers to submit energy statements online which are analysed against local planning policy requirements before being reported to planning officers using a number of simple indicators and graphical outputs. In addition, C-Plan provides an effective means of gathering environmental information about compliance with a wide range of other planning policies and indicators.
Funded by Yorkshire’s Climate Change Skills Fund, this is the largest single deployment of C-Plan and Yorkshire and Humberside will be the first area to benefit from the release of the latest new version is a new facility for applicants to enable C-Plan to calculate out their developments energy consumption data and Low or Zero Carbon technologies generation figures as well as the alternative option to input their own energy data.
For more information on how to use C-Plan and to register for an account, please visitwww.sustainabilityplanner.co.uk for more information.