Planning and Energy Act 2008CHAPTER 21CONTENTS1 Energy policies2 Interpretation3 Short title and extentELIZABETH II c. 21Planning and Energy Act 20082008 CHAPTER 21An Act to enable local planning authorities to set requirements for energy useand energy efficiency in local plans. [13th November 2008]E IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice andconsent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this presentParliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 1 Energy policies(1) A local planning authority in England may in their development plandocuments, and a local planning authority in Wales may in their localdevelopment plan, include policies imposing reasonable requirements for—(a) a proportion of energy used in development in their area to be energyfrom renewable sources in the locality of the development;(b) a proportion of energy used in development in their area to be lowcarbon energy from sources in the locality of the ...