A
bill
to
Make provision about planning applications for onshore wind installations.
B e it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Within six months of this Act coming into force, the Secretary of State must
revise
national planning guidance on onshore wind in accordance with the
objective under
subsection (2)
.
The objective in this subsection is to ensure that guidance permits local
planning
authorities to grant onshore wind applications for the purposes of—
meeting the United Kingdom’s carbon account target under section 1
of the Climate Change
Act 2008;
installing new sites not previously used for generating wind energy;
and
repowering existing onshore wind installations.
In this section—
“
national planning
guidance” includes but is not limited to—
the National Planning Policy Framework and any subordinate,
subsequent or successor
guidance for local planning authorities;
the Planning Practice Guidance on Renewable and Low Carbon
Energy;
the National Planning Policy Statement for Renewable Energy
Infrastructure;
“
repowering existing onshore wind
installations” means the replacement
of turbines, or parts thereof, at existing
onshore wind installations, or
the extension of the period of permitted operation of such
installations.
This Act extends to England and Wales.
This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.
This Act may be cited as the Onshore Wind Act 2021.
A
bill
to
Make provision about planning applications for onshore wind installations.
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