Planning and Energy Act 2008 CHAPTER 21 CONTENTS 1 Energy policies 2 Interpretation 3 Short title and extent ELIZABETH II c. 21 Planning and Energy Act 2008 2008 CHAPTER 21 An Act to enable local planning authorities to set requirements for energy use and energy efficiency in local plans. [13th November 2008] 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:— 1 Energy policies (1) A local planning authority in England may in their development plan documents, and a local planning authority in Wales may in their local development plan, include policies imposing reasonable requirements for— (a) a proportion of energy used in development in their area to be energy from renewable sources in the locality of the development; (b) a proportion of energy used in development in their area to be low carbon energy from sources in ...