PLANNING PERMISSION FOR RENEWABLES

Want to add renewable technologies to your home? Our expert reveals the planning regs you need to know about

SIMON RIX Is a professional planning consultant and runs Planix.UK Planning Consultants Ltd. Let’s face it, burning fossil fuels is quite expensive and fairly dangerous. Actually, that’s not true — it’s monumentally expensive and monumentally dangerous, for everyone on the planet. That’s why more and more countries and companies are shifting to cheap, clean, renewables. But as individual homeowners, we can do the same, and increasing numbers of us are. Installing heat pumps and solar panels are the technologies most people know about, but there are other options. Whichever you choose, there are planning consent hurdles that you might face before installation, and if you do face such hurdles, how can you overcome them? Given the cost, energy security and climate emergency benefits of renewables, you’d think the powers that…

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Homebuilding & Renovating (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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