The Climate Change Development Plan Document, or DPD, will outline Cornwall Council’s vision to protect the environment by introducing new planning policies and strengthening existing rules to support Cornwall Council’s ambitious aim to become carbon neutral by 2030.
Like the Local Plan, the new Climate Change DPD would become a statutory planning document supporting and strengthening the policies that have already been adopted, to protect the environment.
Councillor Bob Egerton, Cornwall’s Cabinet Member for culture, economy and planning, said: "Cornwall already has a Local Plan in place with a number of adopted policies that are aimed at addressing climate change. The DPD that we are developing will help us to be more ambitious, it will create new policies and help strengthen existing ones that address specific issues affecting Cornwall. The legislation that supports the DPD will give additional powers to help protect our environment."
