SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 87·6.222
Local Development Plan Policies for Renewable Energy Targets
Councils must establish policies and proposals in their LDPs to enable the area's optimum contribution to renewable energy targets, supporting diverse technologies at different scales with locational criteria, technology-specific criteria, micro-generation, and passive solar design considerations.
Councils must set out policies and proposals in their LDPs to enable the plan area's optimum contribution to achieving the renewable energy targets to be realised. LDPs should support a diverse range of technologies at different scales and include the factors to be taken into account in decision-taking such as locational criteria, technology specific criteria, micro-generation, and passive solar design considerations, where appropriate.
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