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10+% Renewable Energy Policies

Help us keep this list up to date: This is an informal list of local authorities adopting, or considering adopting, prescriptive Merton Rule-like policies. Please help us to keep this list up to date. If your borough is implementing "The Merton Rule" and is not listed, please let us know using the Contact Us page.

Fully Adopted

 

Regions

Yorkshire and Humber 10%
(.pdf policy ENV5 p214)

County Councils

Cheshire 10%
(.pdf policy GEN3 explanatory notes 6.28 on p56)

Surrey 10%
(.pdf policy SE2 p18)

London Boroughs

Bromley 10%
(.pdf policy ER4 p142)

Camden 10%
(.pdf see 17.15 p75)

Croydon 10%
(.pdf see policy EP16 on p23)

Ealing 10%
(.html policy 2.9)

Greenwich 10%
(.pdf policy E9 p98)

Haringey 10%
(.pdf policy ENV10 p64)

Havering 20% 

Lambeth 10%
(.pdf policy 34 p97)

Merton 10%
(.html)

Richmond 10%
(.pdf SPD)

Southwark 10%
(.pdf policy 3.5 p74)

Waltham Forest 10 %
(.html)

City and Metropolitan Councils

Manchester 20%
(.html)

Oldham 10%
(see NR3.3)

Sefton 10%
(.html)

District and Borough Councils

Ashford

E. Devon 10%
(.
pdf see policy D2 on p6)

Horsham 10%
(see policy DC8) 

Leicester 10%
(.pdf rising at 1% per year, currently 11%, see 1.15 p9)

Luton 10% (.pdf see policy U3, ch8 p101-2)

Milton Keynes 10%
(.doc see Q2 p3)

North Devon 15%
(.pdf ch8 p85)

Plymouth 10%
(rising to 15% in 2010)
(.pdf policy CS20 p108)

Rugby 10%
(.pdf policy GP4 p20)

South Holland 10%
(.pdf policy SG7 p29)

Tandridge 10%
(.pdf SE2 p54)

Vale Royal   10%
(.html)

Other

Isles of Scilly

Included in draft LDF/SPD

 

Regions

North East 10%
(.pdf policy 39 p151)

North West 10%
(.pdf policy EM17 p64)

County Councils

Isle of Wight

London Boroughs

Barking & Dagenham 10%
(.pdf see policy BR1 p10-11)

Hillingdon 10%
(.html Preferred Option DC 38)

Islington 20%
(.pdf policy CS1 p17)

Lewisham

Redbridge 10-20%
(.pdf policy E7 p16)

Sutton 

Tower Hamlets 10%
(.pdf policy DEV6 p171)

Westminster

City and Metropolitan Councils

Barnsley 10%
(.pdf see policy EN2 p86)

Bolton 10%

Calderdale 10%
(.html policy EP 27)

Doncaster 10%
(10MB .pdf 4.3 p27)

Gateshead 10%
(.pdf policy MWR36 p243)

Sheffield City Council 20%
(.pdf policy PR10 p182)

Solihull

Wakefield

District and Borough Councils

Arun

Bedford 10%
(.pdf policy CP27 p40)

Blyth Valley 10%

Bracknell Forest 10-20%
(.pdf see policy CS12 p4)

Cambridge

Canterbury

Carrick

Chichester

Chorley 

Darlington

Eastbourne

East
Cambridgeshire

East Staffordshire 

Fareham 

Forest Heath

Gloucester 

Guildford

Hambleton

Huntingdonshire 

Lichfield 

Maidstone

Melton 

Middlesbrough

North Cornwall

North Norfolk

North Somerset

N. Warwickshire 

Norwich 

Portsmouth 

Reading

Redcar and Cleveland 

Ryedale

Sedgefield 10%
(.pdf p3)

South Cambridgeshire 

South Bucks 

Southampton

South Norfolk

Tunbridge Wells 

Uttlesford 10%
(.pdf draft SPD 1.24 p4 and 2.3 p8)

Warwick

Waverley

West Berkshire 

Woking

Wokingham 

Wychavon

York

Actively progressing

 

Aylesbury Vale

Bexley

Blackburn with Darwen

Bradford

Breckland 

Brighton & Hove

Bury 

Charnwood

Chelmsford

Corporation of London

Craven

Crawley

Dacorum 

Dartford

Derby

East
Northamptonshire

East Riding

Edinburgh 

Enfield

Exeter

Hammersmith & Fulham

Harlow

Harrogate

Harrow 

Hart 

Havant

Havering 

Hull 

Kirklees

Lancaster

Leeds

Liverpool

Mid Bedfordshire 

Newham

Newcastle under Lyme 

N. Hertfordshire

N. Lincolnshire

N.E.Lincolnshire

N. Tyneside

N. Wiltshire

Poole

Purbeck 

Rochdale 

Rotherham

Runneymead

Salford 

Scarborough

South Hams 

South Somerset

St Albans

Stockport

Stockton on Tees

Surrey Heath

Telford & Wrekin

Tendring 

Test Valley

Three Rivers

Waveney 

W. Devon

Wigan

Wolverhampton 

Worcester City 

Wycombe

Assessing
feasibility

 

Amber Valley

Belfast

Derwentside

Dudley

E. Hampshire

Elmbridge

Malvern Hills

New Forest

N. Kesteven

Penwith

Redditch

South
Gloucestershire

S. Lakeland

 

Sub Total 31

Sub Total 66

Sub Total 63

Sub Total 13


 

London Borough of Havering

 I am pleased to say that you can now add London Borough of Havering to the actively pursuing side of the list. We are working towards our own ploicy but are at present requiring those within the London Plan ie expect 10% for major developments.

 

Regards

Mark

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