Issue - meetings

Installation of 3 x external Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs) within a screened compound.

Consideration was given to a proposal to grant planning permission for the installation of 3 external air source heat pumps at Poult Wood Golf Course, Higham  Lane, Tonbridge.  These would replace an existing fossil fuel boiler to provide heating and hot water to the Golf Club and would be enclosed by brown louvred screening standing 3m in height.

The proposal would help address the Borough Council’s commitment to reducing emissions from energy consumption in all of its buildings and ensured that climate change was a recognised commitment within the Corporate Strategy.   This proposal would replace the existing gas fired boilers with air source heat pumps which produced zero emissions at source.  Accordingly, the proposed development would be a benefit in terms of reducing the Borough Council’s carbon (and other) emissions and compliant with the Climate Change Strategy.

In recognition that the proposal supported the reduction of carbon and other emissions, Cllr Brown proposed, Cllr Palmer seconded and it was

RESOLVED:  That planning permission be granted in accordance with the conditions, reasons and informatives set out in the report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Regulatory Services