Practical Planning for Renewable EnergyStephen Stoney – Wardell Armstrong LLP22 February 2011

• Planning permissions – Wind, Solar (farms / installations), AD, Geothermal and W>E.

• Policy creation – LDF, SPD, evidence base etc.

• Clients – LA’s, Generators, Investors, WA’s, NIMBY’s and ruthless developers.

• Public Inquiries, Council presentations, Public exhibitions & meetings, PPA’s, punch-ups.

• Professional, facilitator, fixer, inventor, teacher, head-banger.

Planning Experience

• National – so what?

• Regional – in a ‘Pickles’!

• Local – now there’s the real story...

• They who dare... The world v The NIMBY.

Planning Policy

• The common principles

• Novel, contentious, unproven

• Let somebody else decide

• Will the members understand?

• Does the Government support renewables?

• What about Localism?

Practical Planning?

• Understanding urgency

• Regulatory hurdles

• Reversibility

• Cleverness – proximity, cumulative impact, ecology, landscape & visual

• Building relationships

Practical Planning!

• The Planning Performance Agreement

• Workshops

• Openness

• Local knowledge and respect

• Clever reasoning

• Clear planning

Let’s go for it!

• In the right place

• Proper relationships

• Exemplars – the good guys

• Not as easy as you think

• Knowing the trade

• Professional

Delivering

• Project viability

• The planning envelope

• The planning balance

• The so-called experts?

• Solar – burn out?

• The future?

Stimulating topics

smstoney@wardell-armstrong.com

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