Microgeneration: dwellinghouses

‘(1) The Secretary of State must amend the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/418) (the “GPDO”), in relation to England, to provide for the grant of planning permission for specified classes of equipment for microgeneration on, or within the curtilage of, a dwellinghouse.

(2) The classes of equipment for microgeneration specified by virtue of subsection (1) must be or include wind turbines and air source heat pumps.

(3) “Specified” in subsections (1) and (2) means specified in the GPDO.

(4) The amendment mentioned in subsection (1) must be made within 6 months beginning with the coming into force of this Act.

(5) Provision by virtue of subsection (1) may grant planning permission subject to limitations, exceptions or conditions.

(6) The Secretary of State must review the effect of the amendment of the GPDO as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of 2 years beginning with the date on which the amendment comes into force.

(7) In this section “microgeneration” has the meaning given by section 82 of the Energy Act 2004.’.—(Joan Ruddock.)

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.