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To add and periodically review the climate change and climate change related policies within the Council's Local Plan.
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There are many opportunities to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives into the Local Plan. Since climate change is a broad area, policies relating to climate change may span across various areas, whether this be the natural environment, health and wellbeing, the local economy, or housing, for example.
Appropriate strategies will be in line with the statutory duty on climate change and ambition in the Climate Change Act 2008. In doing so, local planning authorities should ensure that protecting the local environment is properly considered alongside the broader issues of protecting the global environment. The council will incorporate new policies in the local plan for Stevenage relating to Climate Change.
The Local Plan underwent a Partial Update and was examined in public in December 2025. An adopted Local Plan with new climate change policies is envisaged to be adopted within 2026.
SBC is currently reviewing the climate change related policies in our Local Plan, updating them, and adding additional policies where appropriate. This process has gone through different consultation processes, with the climate policies being updated based on the feedback received and the viability process. The process is aimed to finish by Summer 2026.
Supplementary Planning Document for the Local Plan.
To include a section within the local plan which covers climate change, flooding and pollution.