Given that it may not be so practicable to provide carbon reducing features to retirement housing developments additional care will be required in application to such a mechanism to retirement housing to ensure that such contributions do not compromise the viability of developments.
Yes.Where a new policy sets a % reduction in carbon emissions, if it is deemed this
cannot be met on-site, a mechanism to collect off-site carbon emission payments should be introduced?
Acknowledge the wide-ranging opportunities with the district and consider that any off-site proposals should be verifiable and local, and be dealt with on their merits.
This will not reduce carbon emissions and will offer a ‘cop-out’ opportunity to developers to simply pay money over and no doubt increase house prices to factor in this money in order to ensure their own continuing profit margins. Need to rethink this one.
