Energy Statements

Ensure planning approval with compliant reports tailored to your project

Addressing your property’s energy performance outcomes

An Energy Statement is a comprehensive document that outlines how a development meets energy efficiency and carbon reduction requirements. It provides a clear plan for reducing energy demand, optimising building performance, and integrating renewable energy systems where appropriate. 

Developers often struggle to navigate complex energy policies and meet local authority requirements, risking delays and additional costs. Our Energy Statement service provides clear, actionable strategies tailored to your project. We simplify planning approval with our extensive policy knowledge, ensuring your development meets energy standards and secures approval first time.

Why do you need this service?

Planning
approval

You require these documents for planning approval. We make sure you meet standards whilst not overextending on liability post approval.

Optimise building
performance

Find new opportunities to reduce energy consumption and the associated costs with a comprehensive Energy Statement.

Future-proof your
compliance

Align your project with evolving energy regulations and sustainability standards.

Our Process

Arrange an initial consultation

to help us understand your project requirements and planning goals.

Conduct a baseline assessment

to analyse energy demand and carbon emissions for the development.

Develop a strategy

that accounts for energy efficiency measures and renewable integration plans.

Prepare your Energy Statement

for submission as part of the planning application process.

Deliver ongoing support

and assist with any queries or adjustments during the approval process.

Why choose Energy Digest?

Energy Statements play a critical role in obtaining planning permission and demonstrating a commitment to sustainable construction. 
So, to keep your project moving and minimise unnecessary expenses, you need to partner with a building performance specialist that can help you bring together this vital documentation quickly, accurately, and in a way that makes sense to all stakeholders and planning officers. 
 
After carrying out your pre-service consultation, we will deliver a customised analysis of your building that’s fully tailored to your project’s context and limitations, as well as the requirements of your local planning department. Our Energy Statement preparation also includes a vital initial consultation. It’s important we understand intended outcomes and the project’s overarching strategy, so you are not unnecessarily overcommitted post approval.

Fast turnaround time

To help you meet your own deadlines, we’ll issue your Energy Statement within 7 days. 

Collaborative expertise

We work closely with architects and developers to ensure cohesive strategies.

Tailored approach

We always deliver customised recommendations based on your project-specific needs and goals.

Unrivalled support

Our service doesn’t end with the reports. We can provide ongoing support and expertise, from planning to completion.

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experts today

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Energy Statements
FAQs

An Energy Statement demonstrates how a development meets the energy efficiency and carbon reduction policies required by local planning authorities. By outlining energy-saving measures, renewable energy integration, and carbon reduction strategies, it addresses key regulatory concerns, increasing the likelihood of planning approval.

An Energy Statement focuses on energy use, efficiency, and carbon reduction strategies for a development. A Sustainability Statement, on the other hand, takes a broader view, addressing aspects like water management, materials, biodiversity, and social impact, in addition to energy considerations.

Adjustments will be necessary. These may include redesigning aspects of the building to improve insulation, integrating renewable energy systems, or upgrading mechanical and electrical systems to enhance efficiency. Reassessments ensure compliance before final submission.

Baseline energy assessments calculate a development's projected energy consumption and carbon emissions based on its design, construction materials, and systems. Using modelling software and industry standards, this establishes the starting point for identifying energy-saving measures and compliance strategies.

The Energy Hierarchy prioritises reducing energy demand, using energy efficiently, and integrating renewable energy sources. Energy Statements align with this hierarchy by proposing strategies to minimise consumption, optimise systems, and incorporate renewables, ensuring sustainable and efficient designs.

How will we bring together your Energy Statement for planning?

We’ll establish the projects energy needs and expected carbon emissions with an initial baseline assessment. Next, we will follow what’s called the ‘Energy Hierarchy’, which focuses on reducing energy demand through design upgrades, clean energy supply, and LZC (Low Zero Carbon) technologies.

By conducting a renewable energy feasibility study, our team will evaluate the opportunities for incorporating renewable systems like solar panels, heat pumps, or wind turbines into your build. Outlining a carbon reduction strategy will prove to your local authority that you are dedicated to achieving their reduction targets, and developing fully compliant documentation will strengthen your case for planning permission even further.

If your project falls short of the required reductions, we’ll calculate and manage any offset requirements needed to satisfy council regulations, ensuring seamless compliance on your behalf.

Spoke with Josh who not only reassured me but asked for a fee that I thought was fair. Thank you Josh. Use again? Definitely.

Steve Quirk

The team really know their stuff – super helpful and always had clear answers to any questions or compliance issues we ran into. Definitely our go-to for any future projects!

Nathan Donnelly

Quick and well priced water calculation service and received an appliance specification report alongside the certificate which was really useful for us and the building control officer, highly recommended!

Ilma Akhtar

Very knowledgeable about building regulations, and the industry. Always goes the extra mile to help out! 5*

Karim Meraga

Still unsure?

We offer free phone call and email support until you’re ready to proceed with us.
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