This SPG provides clarification on Policy PED 8 and reinforces the policy message ensuring that operations of established industrial enterprises requiring a contaminant free environment are protected, thereby securing their valuable contribution to the economy.
This guidance note provides clarification in regard to the circumstances referred to in the policy where certain types of economic development use would be incompatible with existing or approved industrial undertakings requiring a particularly contaminant free environment. The latter are referred to in this guidance note as "sensitive industrial enterprises".
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Supplementary Planning Guidance to Policy PED 8 - Development Incompatible with Economic Development Uses