Data centres is a rapidly emerging sector, and planning has an important role to play in considering applications, harnessing economic opportunities, and finding solutions which align with our climate goals.
Discussing the role of planning in data centre applications.
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The new policy is a real departure for the Government in terms of stepping away from giving local authorities total oversight and decision making power.
This waste heat could potentially give us an opportunity to tap into this, if we strategically think about where these data centres are located, to be creating district heating schemes.
I don’t know about you but I’m pretty fed up of this opportunistic kind of politics.
It is essential to secure public benefits from this type of development, and I am clear that voices of communities that will be affected will be central to any considerations on data centres.
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