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| GLOSSARY |
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| BAP |
Biodiversity Action Plan |
| DEFRA |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| DETR |
Department for Environment Transport and Regions |
| Disabled people |
The definition of disability is “a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial or long term adverse effect on an individual’s ability to carry out normal day to day activities”. |
| DoE |
Department of Environment |
| DPHN |
Dwelling per hectare net |
| DSSRS |
Draft Summary Sport and Recreation Strategy |
| FC |
Football Club |
| GCP |
Green Commuter Plans |
| HATS |
Harlow Area Transport Strategy |
| ICT |
Information Communications Technology |
| LEAPS |
Local Environment Agency Plans |
| LOCAL PLAN |
Replacement Harlow Local Plan |
| LNR |
Local Nature Reserve |
| Major Development |
For dwellings it is where the number of dwelling to be built is 10 or more or if the number is not known then a site area of 0.5 hectares or more. For all other uses it is where the floorspace to be built is 1,000 square metres or more or where the site area is 1 hectare or more. |
| MGB |
Metropolitan Green Belt |
| PAER |
Priority Area for Economic Regeneration |
| PPG |
Planning Policy Guidance (See List) |
| R & D |
Research and Development |
| RPG |
Regional Planning Guidance |
| SERAS |
South East Regional Airport Strategy |
| SPG |
Supplementary Planning Guidance |
| SRA |
Special Restraint Area |
| SSSI |
Site of Special Scientific Interest |
STRUCTURE
PLAN |
Essex & Southend-on-Sea Replacement Structure Plan Adopted April 2001 |
| TCC |
Town Centre Central |
| TCN |
Town Centre North |
| TCS |
Town Centre South |
| WAGN |
West Anglia Great Northern Railways |
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| USE CLASSES ORDER GUIDE |
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USE CLASSES
ORDER 1987 |
DESCRIPTION |
| A1 |
Shops, retail warehouses, hairdressers, undertakers, travel and ticket agencies, post offices, dry cleaners etc.
Pet shops, cats-meat shops, tripe shops, sandwich bars. Showrooms, domestic hire shops, funeral directors |
| A2 |
Banks, building societies, estate and employment agencies.
Professional and financial services, betting offices |
| A3 |
Restaurants, pubs, snack bars, cafes, wine bars, shops for sale of hot food. |
| Sui Generis |
Shops selling and /or displaying motor vehicles
Launderettes, taxi or vehicle hire businesses, amusements centres, petrol filling stations |
| B1 |
Offices not within A2.
Research and development, studios, laboratories, high tech.
Light industry |
| B2 |
General industry |
| B8 |
Wholesale warehouse, distribution centre, repositories |
| Sui Generis |
Any work registered under the Alkali etc, Works Regulation Act, 1906. |
| C1 |
Hotels, boarding and guest houses |
| C2 |
Residential schools and colleges.
Hospitals and convalescent/nursing homes |
| C3 |
Dwellings, small businesses at home, communal housing of elderly and handicapped.
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| Sui Generis |
Hostels |
| D1 |
Places of worship, church halls.
Clinics, health centres, crèches, day nurseries, consulting rooms.
Museums, public halls, libraries, art galleries, exhibition halls.
Non-residential education and training centres |
| D2 |
Cinemas, music and concert halls.
Dance, sports halls, swimming baths, skating rinks, gymnasiums.
Other indoor and outdoor sports and leisure uses, bingo halls, casinos. |
| Sui Generis |
Theatres |
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| CURRENT PLANNING POLICY GUIDANCE (PPG’s) |
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| PPG1 |
General Policy & Principles |
Feb-97 |
| PPG2 |
Green Belts |
Jan-95 |
| PPG3 |
Land for Housing – See Also:
- Circular 06/98 on Affordable Housing
- Local Housing Needs Assessment: A Guide to Good Practice - July 2000
- Monitoring Provision of Housing through the Planning System: Towards Best Practice – October 2000
- Tapping the Potential – Assessing Urban Housing Capacity:
- By Design : Towards Better Practice;
- Sustainable Residential Quality: Exploring the Housing Potential of Large Sites
- PPG3 Good Practice Guide on Managed Release of Sites
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01/03/2000 |
| PPG4 |
Industrial and Commercial Development and Small Firms |
Nov 1992 |
| PPG5 |
Simplified Planning Zones |
Nov 1992 |
| PPG6 |
Town Centres and Retail Developments |
Jun 1996 |
| PPG7 |
The Countryside – Environmental Quality and Economic and Social Development |
Feb 1997 |
| PPG8 |
Telecommunications |
Aug 2001 |
| PPG9 |
Nature Conservation |
Oct 1994 |
| PPG10 |
Planning & Waste Management |
Sep 1999 |
| PPG11 |
Regional Planning Guidance |
Oct 2000 |
| PPG12 |
Development Plans |
Dec 1999 |
| PPG13 |
Transport |
Mar 2001 |
| PPG14 |
Development on Unstable Land |
Apr 1990 |
PPG14
(Annex 1) |
Development on Unstable Land: Landslides and Planning |
Mar 1996 |
PPG14
(Annex 2) |
Development on Unstable Land: Subsidence and Planning, (Replaces and Extends MPG12 which is cancelled) |
Feb 2002 |
| PPG15 |
Planning and the Historic Environment |
Sep 1994 |
| PPG16 |
Archaeology and Planning |
Nov 1990 |
| PPG17 |
Sport and Recreation |
July 2002 |
| PPG18 |
Enforcing Planning Control |
Dec 1991 |
| PPG19 |
Outdoor Advertisement Control |
Mar 1992 |
| PPG20 |
Coastal Planning |
Sep 1992 |
| PPG21 |
Tourism |
Nov 1992 |
| PPG22 |
Renewable Energy |
Feb 1993 |
| PPG23 |
Planning and Pollution Control |
Oct 1994 |
| PPG24 |
Planning and Noise |
Sep 1994 |
| PPG25 |
Development and Flood Risk |
Jul 2001 |
| PPG26 |
Planning and Contaminated Land (Consultation Draft still expected) |
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