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  •  Accessibility

  •  Adopted Proposals Map

  •  Adoption

  •  Aerobic Digestion

  •  Affordable Housing (or sub-market housing)

  •  Aftercare (in terms of minerals operations)

  •  Aggregates

  •  Agricultural (Forestry or Other Rural Occupational) Dwelling

  •  Agricultural Waste

  •  Air Quality Management Strategy (AQMS)

  •  Alteration

  •  Amenity

  •  Amenity Green-space

  •  Anaerobic Digestion

  •  Ancient Woodland

  •  Ancillary Use / Operations

  •  Annual Monitoring Report (AMR)

  •  Appeal

  •  Apportionment (amount of minerals needed)

  •  Aquifers

  •  Archaeological Assessment / Evaluation

  •  Archaeological Reserve

  •  Area Action Plan

  •  Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)

  •  Area of Search

  •  Article 4 Direction

  •  Article 14 Direction

  •  Back-land development

  •  Best Available Techniques (BAT) 

  •  Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land

  •  Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO)

  •  Best Value

  •  Biodegradable waste

  •  Bio-diversity

  •  Bio-diversity Action Plan (BAP)

  •  Biological Treatment

  •  Biomass

  •  Blight

  •  Borrow Pit

  •  Breach of Conditions Notice

  •  Brief / Planning Brief

  •  Bring systems (public recycling facilities)

  •  Brownfield Land and Sites

  •  Buffer Zone

  •  Building

  •  Building Preservation Notice

  •  Bulky Goods

  •  Bund

  •  Business Improvement Districts (BID)

  •  Business Planning Zone (BPZ)

  •  CABE

  •  'Call-in' or Called-in Planning Application

  •  Certificate of Immunity from Listing

  •  Change of Use

  •  Character

  •  Chief Planning Officer

  •  Circular

  •  City Centre

  •  Civic Amenity Site

  •  Climate Change

  •  Clusters (a term used in economic regeneration)

  •  Coalescence

  •  Commercial Waste

  •  Commitments (or committed development)

  •  Committee

  •  Communities and Local Government

  •  Community Forest

  •  Community Strategy

  •  Composting

  •  Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO)

  •  Conditions (or 'planning condition')

  •  Conservation Area

  •  Conservation Area Character Appraisal

  •  Conservation Area Consent

  •  Construction and Demolition Waste

  •  Contaminated Land

  •  Controlled waste

  •  Conurbation

  •  Convenience Goods

  •  Conversions

  •  Countryside Agency

  •  Countryside Character Areas

  •  County Archaeologist

  •  Crushed Rock

  •  Cultural Strategy

  •  Culture

  •  Cumulative Impact

  •  Curtilage

  •  Delegated Powers

  •  Demand Responsive Transport

  •  Density

  •  Departure

  •  Deposit

  •  Design Commission for Wales

  •  Design guide

  •  Design statement

  •  Detailed Application / Full application

  •  Determination

  •  Development

  •  Development Control & Development Management

  •  Development Limits & Development Boundaries

  •  Development Plan

  •  Development Plan Documents (DPDs)

  •  Distributor road

  •  District Centres

  •  Dormant Site

  •  Dwelling & Dwelling house

  •  Ecclesiastical Exemption

  •  Edge-of-Centre

  •  Elevation

  •  Employment Land Availability (ELA)

  •  Energy Crops

  •  Energy from Waste

  •  Enforcement Action

  •  Enforcement Notice

  •  English Heritage

  •  English Nature

  •  Enterprise Area

  •  Enterprise Zone

  •  Environment Agency

  •  Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and Environmental Statement (EA)

  •  Established Need

  •  European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP)

  •  Evidence Base

  •  Examination in Public (EIP)

  •  Fascia

  •  First Secretary Of State

  •  Flight path

  •  Flood plain

  •  Flood Risk Assessment

  •  Fly tipping

  •  Fossil Fuels (a non-renewable fuel)

  •  Front-loading

  •  Gasification and Pyrolysis (Advanced Thermal Treatment)

  •  General Conformity

  •  General Permitted Development Order (GPDO)

  •  Geographic Information System (GIS)

  •  Geothermal Technology

  •  Government Offices for the Regions (GOs)

  •  Green Belt

  •  Green corridor / wildlife corridor

  •  Green Wedges

  •  Greenfield Land or Site

  •  Greenhouse Effect / Global Warming

  •  Greenhouse Gases

  •  Groundwater

  •  Guided Buses / segregated bus route

  •  Habitable rooms

  •  Habitat

  •  Hard Rock

  •  Hazardous Waste

  •  Health Check (in terms of shopping areas)

  •  Heavy Rail

  •  Heritage Coast

  •  High Court Challenge

  •  High demand housing areas

  •  High Hedges

  •  Highways Agency

  •  Historic Battlefield

  •  Historic Parks and Gardens

  •  Household Waste

  •  Household Waste Recovery Centres / Civic Amenity Sites

  •  Housing Land Availability (HLA)

  •  Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders

  •  Housing Market Restructuring / Renewal (HMR)

  •  Independent Retailer

  •  Industrial Waste

  •  Inert waste

  •  Infill development

  •  Informal Hearing

  •  Inquiry (sometimes known as a Public Local Inquiry)

  •  Inset map

  •  Inset village / Village envelope

  •  Inspector's Report

  •  Interchange (Transport Interchange)

  •  Inward Investment

  •  Issues, Options and Preferred Options

  •  Judicial Review

  •  Kerbside Collection

  •  Key Diagram

  •  Knowledge-based Industry

  •  Land Compensation

  •  Landbank

  •  Landfill (including land raising)

  •  Landfill Directive

  •  Landfill Gas

  •  Landscape Appraisal

  •  Landscaper Character

  •  Lawful Development Certificate

  •  Layout

  •  Leachate (usually associated with landfill)

  •  Legibility (in terms of settlement patterns)

  •  Light Rail

  •  Limits of Development

  •  Listed Building

  •  Listed Building Consent

  •  Listed Building Enforcement Notice

  •  Listed Building Purchase Notice

  •  Local Agenda 21

  •  Local Development Documents (LDDs)

  •  Local Development Framework (LDF)

  •  Local Development Order (LDO)

  •  Local Development Scheme (LDS)

  •  Local Landscape Designation (for example, 'Area of High Landscape value')

  •  Local Listing (or Building of Local Importance).

  •  Local Nature Reserve.

  •  Local Need Housing

  •  Local Plan

  •  Local Planning Authority

  •  Local Strategic Partnership (LSP)

  •  Local Transport Plan

  •  Low Demand Housing (or areas of housing abandonment)

  •  Low level restoration

  •  Management Plan

  •  Marine Dredged Aggregate

  •  Marine Nature Reserves

  •  Market Towns

  •  Mast-sharing (including mobile phone masts)

  •  Material Consideration

  •  Materials Recycling Facility (MRF)

  •  Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT)

  •  Mineral

  •  Mineral Consultation Area

  •  Mineral Development

  •  Mineral Planning Authority (MPA)

  •  Minerals Local Plan

  •  Minerals Planning Guidance Note (MPG)

  •  Mineral Planning Statement (MPS)

  •  Mineral Resource

  •  Minerals Reserves

  •  Mixed use (or mixed use development)

  •  Minerals Planning Guidance Note (MPG)

  •  Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA)

  •  Multimodal Study

  •  Multiple Retailer

  •  Multiplier Effect

  •  Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)

  •  National Land Use Database (NLUD)

  •  National Nature Reserves

  •  National Park

  •  Natural Surveillance (or Supervision)

  •  Nature Conservation

  •  Need (in retail terms)

  •  Neighbourhood Centre

  •  Neighbourhood Renewal

  •  Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF)

  •  New Town

  •  Noise exposure category (NEC)

  •  Non-Fossil Fuels

  •  Non-statutory nature reserve

  •  Objectives and Indicators

  •  Offshore Renewable Energy Projects

  •  Open Space

  •  Opencast Working

  •  Outline application

  •  Out-of-Centre

  •  Out-of-Town

  •  Outstanding Planning Permission

  •  Overbearing

  •  Overburden

  •  Over-development

  •  Overlooking

  •  Overshadowing

  •  Panel

  •  Passenger Transport Authority

  •  Passive Solar Heating

  •  Permitted Development (or Permitted Development Rights)

  •  Permitted Reserves

  •  Phasing or Phased Development

  •  Photovoltaics / photovoltaic cells.

  •  Plan, Monitor and Manage (PMM)

  •  Plan-led system

  •  Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004

  •  Planning Advisory Service

  •  Planning Aid

  •  Planning Casework Service

  •  Planning Condition

  •  Planning Delivery Grant

  •  Planning for Real

  •  Planning Gain

  •  Planning Inspectorate

  •  Planning Obligations and Agreements

  •  Planning Permission

  •  Planning Policy Guidance (PPG)

  •  Planning Policy Statement (PPS)

  •  Planning Portal

  •  Pollution Prevention and Control / Integrated Pollution Control

  •  Precautionary Principle

  •  Preferred Areas

  •  Previously Developed Land (PDL) or 'Brownfield' land

  •  Primary Aggregates

  •  Primary Shopping Area (or Primary Shopping Frontage)

  •  Prior Approval

  •  Private Open Space

  •  Protected Species

  •  Proximity Principle

  •  Public Art

  •  Public Open Space

  •  Public Realm

  •  Public Right of Way

  •  RDA Single-pot

  •  Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000

  •  Ramsar Sites

  •  Real Time Information (RTI)

  •  Reasoned justification

  •  Reclamation (in terms of mineral operations)

  •  Recovery

  •  Recycled Aggregates

  •  Recycling

  •  Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF)

  •  Regeneration

  •  Regional / Local Gateways

  •  Regional Aggregates Working Party

  •  Regional and Sub-Regional Shopping Centres

  •  Regional Assembly / Regional Planning Body (RPB)

  •  Regional Development Agency (RDA)

  •  Regional Economic Strategy

  •  Regional Housing Board

  •  Regional Housing Strategy (RHS)

  •  Regionally Important Geological Site (RIG)

  •  Regional Planning Body (RPB) / Regional Asssembly

  •  Regional Planning Guidance (RPG)

  •  Regional Self sufficiency

  •  Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS)

  •  Regional Sustainable Development Framework (RSDF)

  •  Regional Technical Advisory Body on Waste (RTAB)

  •  Regional Transport Strategy

  •  Remedial work

  •  Renewable Energy

  •  Residual Waste

  •  Restoration (in terms of minerals operations)

  •  Retail Floorspace

  •  Retail Impact

  •  Retail Impact Assessment

  •  Retail Park

  •  Retail Warehouses

  •  Ribbon Development

  •  Roundtable Discussions

  •  Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)

  •  Rural Development Area

  •  Rural Diversification

  •  Rural Exceptions Policy / Site

  •  Saved Policies / Saved Plan

  •  Scheduled Ancient Monument

  •  Secondary Aggregates

  •  Secondary Shopping Frontages

  •  Section 106 Agreement

  •  Sequential approach / sequential test

  •  Settlement pattern

  •  Shadow Flicker

  •  Shopmobility

  •  Simplified Planning Zone

  •  Site of Nature Conservation Importance (SNCI) or Site of Biological Interest (SBI)

  •  Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)

  •  Site Visit

  •  Sites and Monuments Record

  •  SME (Small to Medium Enterprise)

  •  Social Inclusion

  •  Soundness

  •  Source Protection Zone

  •  Spatial Development

  •  Spatial Planning

  •  Spatial Vision

  •  Special Area Of Conservation (SAC)

  •  Special Needs Housing

  •  Special Protection Areas (SPA)

  •  Standards Authority

  •  Statement of Community Involvement (SCI)

  •  Statement of Consultation / Statement of Compliance

  •  Statutory Body

  •  Statutory Undertakers / Statutory Utilities

  •  Strategic Development Control Policies

  •  Strategic Employment Site

  •  Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

  •  Structure Plan

  •  Submission Document

  •  Sub-regional partnership

  •  Sui-Generis

  •  Superstore

  •  Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)

  •  Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG)

  •  Sustainability Appraisal (including Environmental Appraisal)

  •  Sustainable Communities

  •  Sustainable Communities Plan

  •  Sustainable Development

  •  Sustainable travel / sustainable transport

  •  Terracing Effect

  •  Topography

  •  Townscape / Cityscape

  •  Town Centre Management

  •  Town Centre Strategy

  •  Town Centres

  •  Trade Parks

  •  Tranquil Areas

  •  Transitional Arrangements

  •  Transport Assessment (TA)

  •  Travel Demand Management

  •  Travel Generators

  •  Travel Plan (sometimes called a 'green travel' or 'commuter' plan)

  •  Tree Preservation Order (TPO)

  •  Unauthorised Development

  •  Unitary Development Plan

  •  Unstable Land

  •  Urban Capacity Study

  •  Urban Design

  •  Urban Extension

  •  Urban Fringe

  •  Urban Housing Capacity Study (UHCS)

  •  Urban Regeneration

  •  Urban Regeneration Company (URC)

  •  Urban Sprawl

  •  Use Classes Order

  •  Vernacular

  •  Vernacular Building

  •  Viability

  •  Village Envelope

  •  Void Space

  •  Visibility Splay

  •  Vitality

  •  Ward

  •  Wash-over village

  •  Waste

  •  Waste Collection Authority (WCA)

  •  Waste Disposal Authority (WDA)

  •  Waste Hierarchy

  •  Waste Local Plan

  •  Waste Minimisation / Reduction

  •  Waste Planning Authority (WPA)

  •  Waste Regulation Authority

  •  Waste Transfer Station

  •  White land

  •  Wildlife Corridor

  •  Windfall Site

  •  Wind farm

  •  Wind Resource Area

  •  World Heritage Site

  •  Written representations

  •  Written Statement

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