This purports to set "out the steps that local authorities can take to:
- improve energy efficiency;
- increase the levels of microgeneration and low carbon technologies;
- reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and
- reduce the number of households living in fuel poverty."
Here's a chunk from the Planning Module:-
"Sustainability appraisal will be important in shaping appropriate spatial strategies. Sustainability appraisal is required in revising Regional Spatial Strategies and preparing new Local Development Documents (Development Plan Documents and Supplementary Planning Documents). This incorporates requirements of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive, and includes consideration of the effects of implementing such plans on certain issues such as air and climatic factors. Guidance has been produced to assist authorities with this".
Which means what, exactly? I really hope they have got guidance on this because its as clear as mud to me!
Having had a quick look it appears to me to be 165 pages of gobbledygook, waffle, hot air and wasted effort. Nothing new there then!
And you only have to wonder at the cost of preparing it. I just wish we'd get a bit more cash into doing than all this non-stuff.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, I clicked on a Google ad on the blog about jobs 'in climate change'.
If this is a snapshot, the sheer number of bozos drawing what looks like an average £70k to be part of this ill-defined, non-productive, managerial box-ticking and target-centric consultative 'industry' beggars belief.