Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning Framework

296 Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning FrameworkThe policies of relevance are 4A.4 – 4A.11.These cover the following areas: 4A.4 Energyassessment, 4A.5 Provision of heating andcooling networks, 4A.6 Decentralised Energy:Heating, Cooling and Power, 4A.7 RenewableEnergy, 4A.9 Adaptation to Climate Change,4A.10 Overheating, and 4A.11 Living Roofsand Walls.Policies 4A.5 to 4A.7 are of particularrelevance to the VNEB OAPF, as they requireconsideration of site-wide energy supply anddemand, as well as the consideration of CHPand low carbon energy supply options.4A.5 Provision of heatingand cooling networksBoroughs should ensure that all DPDsidentify and safeguard existing heatand cooling networks and maximise theopportunities for providing new networksthat are supplied by decentralised energy.Boroughs should ensure that all newdevelopment is designed to connect to theheating and cooling network.The Mayor will and boroughs should workin partnership to identify and to establishnetwork opportunities, to ensure thedelivery of these networks and to maximisethe potential for existing developments toconnect to them.4A.6 Decentralised energy:heating, cooling and powerThe Mayor will and boroughs should intheir DPDs require all developments todemonstrate that their heating, coolingand power systems have been selected tominimise carbon dioxide emissions. Theneed for active cooling systems should bereduced as far as possible through passivedesign including ventilation, appropriateuse of thermal mass, external summershading and vegetation on and adjacentto developments. The heating and coolinginfrastructure should be designed to allowthe use of decentralised energy (includingrenewable generation) and for it to bemaximised in the future.Developments should evaluate combinedcooling, heat, and power (CCHP) andcombined heat and power (CHP) systemsand where a new CCHP/CHP system isinstalled as part of a new development,examine opportunities to extend the schemebeyond the site boundary to adjacent areas.The Mayor will expect all majordevelopments to demonstrate that theproposed heating and cooling systemshave been selected in accordance with thefollowing order of preference:• connection to existing CCHP/CHPdistribution networks;• site-wide CCHP/CHP powered byrenewable energy;• gas-fired CCHP/CHP or hydrogen fuelcells, both accompanied by renewables;• communal heating and cooling fuelledby renewable sources of energy; and• gas fired communal heating and cooling.4A.5 Renewable energyPlanning can promote energy efficientdesign and construction, greater efficiencyin use of resources (such as use ofcombined heat and power and the use ofheat networks) and the use of renewableenergy sources. It can also help encouragedecentralised energy systems, such asarea-wide community heating networks.6.3 Local6.3.1 WandsworthWandsworth Council’s Core Strategy wassubmitted in May 2009. The followingpolicies are of particular relevance to theVNEB development:4A.7 Renewable energyPlanning can promote energy efficientdesign and construction, greater efficiencyin use of resources (such as use ofcombined heat and power and the use ofheat networks) and the use of renewableenergy sources. It can also help encouragedecentralised energy systems, such asarea-wide community heating networks.The Core Strategy also makes referenceto the particularly good opportunities forCHP technology in Nine Elms (para 4.127)and that the Council pledge to work withdevelopment partners to promote necessarystrategic sustainable energy infrastructure,which may include developers identifyingland and access for CHP / CCHP plantand district heating connections whereappropriate.