| Affordable housing: |
| Housing which meets, and will continue to meet, the needs
of people who are otherwise unable to enter the housing market. |
| |
| Allotment: |
| Land other than a private garden wholly or mainly cultivated
by the occupier for the production of vegetables or fruit crops
for consumption by himself or his family. Usually 126.5 sq m. |
| |
| Allotments - non-statutory: |
| Temporary or private allotments. |
| |
| Allotments - statutory: |
| Land of which the freehold has been vested in the allotments
authority or which has subsequently been appropriated to allotment
use. |
| |
| Ancillary floorspace: |
| Floorspace used for providing uses or services incidental
to the main use of the premises, e.g. ancillary offices of an
industrial building. |
| |
| Area of special advertisement control: |
| An area within which the display of advertisements is more
stringently controlled in order to preserve amenity. In such
areas advertisements normally displayed without the consent
of the local planning authority may no longer be displayed without
permission. (Section 220 Town and Country Planning Act 1990
and Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations
1992.) |
| |
| Article 4 direction: |
| A direction under Article 4(2) of the General Development
Order (qv), which may require approval of the Secretary of State
for the Environment, bringing under the control of the local
planning authority any specified developments normally permitted
under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)
Order 1995. |
| |
| Basic amenities: |
| Hot water supply and fixed bath or shower and WC within the
dwelling. |
| |
| Bridleway: |
| A highway over which the public have a right of way on foot
and a right of way on horseback or leading a horse, but with
or without a right to drive animals of any description along
a highway. Bicycles may also be ridden on bridleways. |
| |
| Building of townscape merit: |
| Building or group of buildings that is not on the statutory
list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest
(qv) but that contributes positively and significantly to the
character and appearance of an area. |
| |
| Bungalow: |
| A dwelling, other than a flat, which is entirely or predominantly
single storey. This includes properties sometimes described
as ‘chalet bungalow’, which have one or two rooms on an upper
level, but where accommodation is predominantly on the ground
floor. |
| |
| Business class: |
| Class B1 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order
1987. Where the use is for all or any of the following purposes:
as an office other than a use within class A2, for research
and development of products or processes or for any industrial
process. The use must be able to be carried out in any residential
area without detriment to the amenity of the area by reason
of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or
grit. |
| |
| Bus priority measures: |
| Traffic management schemes designed specifically to give priority
to buses, such as bus lanes, bus only streets etc. |
| |
| Catchment area: |
| The area from which the population may travel to a shopping
centre, rather than an adjacent or other similar centre. |
| |
| Central London: |
| Unless otherwise stated, this comprises LB Camden, City of
London, LB Hackney, LB Islington, RB Kensington and Chelsea,
LB Lambeth, LB Southwark, LB Tower Hamlets, City of Westminster. |
| |
| Commuted payment: |
| Agreement may be reached whereby a developer, instead of providing
the full amount of parking spaces required by the overall parking
standard, provides only the on-site operational spaces, provided
a commuted payment is made to the Council for the provision
of public car parking spaces and/or towards the provision of
public transport. |
| |
| Comparison goods: |
| See Durable Goods'. |
| |
| Conservation area: |
| An area of special architectural or historic interest, the
character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve
or enhance. Consent, known as conservation area consent, is
required for the demolition or partial substantial demolition
of unlisted buildings in conservation areas. (sections 69 and
70 Town and Country Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation
Areas) Act 1990.) |
| |
| Controlled parking zone: |
| An area in which the parking of vehicles on-street in parking
places is permitted by order, and elsewhere within the area
waiting is prohibited. Parking in the zone is mainly allowed
through the issue of parking permits. |
| |
| Convenience goods: |
| Those items which are usually purchased from shops on a regular
basis, e.g. fresh food, cigarettes, cleaning materials, newspapers,
sweets, etc. |
| |
| Conversion (housing): |
| Alterations to a building which changes the number of individual
dwellings. |
| |
| Crown road: |
| A road through a royal park for which the Council is not the
highway authority. |
| |
| Cycle route: |
| A signed route for cyclists. It may vary from a purpose-built
cycleway to a simple advisory route through lightly trafficked
parts of the ordinary road network. |
| |
| Day visitor: |
| A visitor to the Borough who lives or is staying outside the
Borough. |
| |
| Definitive rights of way map: |
| A map of rights of way prepared by the Council under the National
Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 as amended by the
Countryside Act 1968 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. |
| |
| Designated road: |
| A road forming a part of the strategic road network having
a similar function as a trunk road. The Council is the Highway
authority, but the Traffic Director for London may veto proposals
which affect its operation. |
| |
| Development: |
| The carrying out of building operations, engineering operations,
mining operations or other operations in, on, over or under
land, or the making of any material change in the use of any
buildings or other land. Some demolition work is also included. |
| |
| District centre: |
| A centre having over 100 retail and non-retail units and with
a range of shops large enough to cater for weekly needs and
provide competition. The range will normally include a supermarket
and non-retail services such as banks, building societies and
restaurants. |
| |
| District park: |
| A park at least 20 hectares providing a fairly wide range
of sports and recreation facilities for households within about
1.2km of the park. |
| |
| DETR: |
| Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. |
| |
| Dual use: |
| The use of Council owned or other facilities by the general
public when not in use by the individuals or groups for which
the facility is primarily intended, e.g. public use of school
playing fields outside school hours. |
| |
| Durable goods: |
| Goods with a life of several years, usually having a high
value, such as furniture, china, glass, carpets, clothing, radio,
TV, etc. |
| |
| Dwelling: |
| A building or part of a building that forms a separate and
self-contained unit of premises designed to be occupied by a
single family or household. |
| |
| Ecology: |
| The relationship between humans, animal life and plant life
and the environment in which they live. |
| |
| Economically active: |
| Persons in full or part-time work or unemployed or on a government
scheme. (The permanently sick, the wholly retired, full time
students, and persons looking after home or family are classified
as ‘economically inactive'.) |
| |
| Economic overheating: |
| Where the economy has grown at such a rate that a scarcity
of resources, often labour, traffic congestion and public transport
difficulties act as a brake on economic growth and contribute
to inflation. |
| |
| Environmental area: |
| An area in which through traffic is discouraged and within
which consideration of pedestrian convenience, amenity and aesthetic
quality predominate over the movement of vehicles. |
| |
| Footpath: |
| See ‘public footpath'. |
| |
| Footway: |
| That part of a highway which also comprises and abuts a carriageway,
over which the public have (unless otherwise stated) right of
way on foot only. |
| |
| Footway parking: |
| Parking with one wheel or more on the footway; illegal in
London since 1984 except for exempted streets. |
| |
| Finance and professional services: |
| Class A2 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order
1987. Where the use is for the provision of finance or professional
services (other than health or medical services) or any other
services, which it is appropriate to provide in a shopping area
where the services are provided principally to visiting members
of the public. |
| |
| General Development Order (GDO): |
| The Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988
set out planning procedure and regulations mainly related to
permitted development (i.e. that which does not require planning
permission). It has been superseded by the Town and Country
Planning (General Permitted Development) Order, 1995. |
| |
| General industrial use: |
| Class B2 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order
1987. Use for carrying out an industrial process which could
not be carried out in any residential area without detriment
to the amenity of the area by reason of noise, vibration, smell,
fumes, soot, ash, dust or grit and not falling in special industrial
use classes B3 to B7. |
| |
| GOL: |
| Government Office for London. |
| |
| Green belt: |
| Areas of predominantly open land around built up areas which
have the strategic role of checking the unrestricted sprawl
of the built up area, safeguarding the surrounding countryside
from encroachment, assisting in urban regeneration and providing
areas where open air recreational activities can take place
and wildlife habitats maintained. |
| |
| Green chains: |
| A series of linked open spaces forming extended parkways for
the public and wildlife corridors in natural surroundings. These
can cross borough boundaries. |
| |
| Gross floorspace: |
| Includes all floorspace within the external faces of a building,
including plant, lifts, stairwells, etc. |
| |
| Habitat: |
| Natural home of animal or plant. |
| |
| Highways Agency: |
| An agency of the Department of the Environment, Transport
and the Regions, which is the highway authority for trunk roads. |
| |
| Highway authority: |
| The Authority' responsible for the road in question. In the
case of Trunk roads (A316 and A205) the Central Government's
Highways Agency' acts as Highway Authority. For all other roads
in the Borough the Highways Authority is the LBRuT itself. Notwithstanding
this, the Traffic Director for London has remit in respect of
Red Routes and regarding Priority roads. Within this Borough
the only Red Routes are the |
| A316 and A205, which are also Trunk roads. The Priority Route
network, meanwhile is shown in Map 10. |
| |
| Highway improvements (safeguarding line): |
| A line approved by the Council (or its predecessors) under
Section 73, Highways Act 1980 or the appropriate development
plan, showing the limits of a proposal to improve a highway. |
| |
| Household: |
| One person living alone or a group of people living together
who share common catering arrangements or share a common living
room. Occupants of one room accommodation or of a caravan are
treated as a single household. |
| |
| House in multiple occupation: |
| A house which is occupied by persons who do not form a single
household (Housing Act 1985 Sec. 3.45). Examples include: bedsits,
traditional lodging houses with resident landlords, premises
where some or all amenities are shared by more than one household. |
| |
| Industry: |
| The carrying on of any process for or incidental to the making
of any article or of part of any article; or the altering, repairing,
ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, freezing, packing
or canning, or adapting for sale or the breaking up or demolition
of any article; or the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals
in the course of any trade or business other than agriculture,
and other than a use carried out in or adjacent to a mine or
quarry (Town and country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987. |
| |
| Key (shopping) frontage: |
| Shopping areas which are to be retained primarily in retail
use and from which further non-shop uses will normally be excluded. |
| |
| Larger shop units: |
| Shops over 300 sq m gross floorspace. |
| |
| Light industry: |
| An industrial us falling within Class B1(c) of the Town and
Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 and which can be carried
out in any residential area without detriment to the amenity
of that area by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke,
soot, ash, dust or grit. |
| |
| Listed building: |
| See ‘Statutory list of buildings of special architectural
or historic interest’. |
| |
| Local access road: |
| Road with the purpose to provide for local traffic and to
provide access to land and buildings in the immediate vicinity
of the roads. |
| |
| Local distributor road: |
| Local road which serves more than a local access function.
It may provide important links between secondary roads, access
to local centres or serve as important distributor road in residential
areas. |
| |
| Local park: |
| A park of at least two hectares providing court games, children's
play, sitting out areas, a landscaped environment and possibly
playing fields for households within about 400 m of the park. |
| |
| Local highway authority: |
| See Highway Authority. |
| |
| Long-term parking: |
| Parking for more than four hours. |
| |
| Local Transport Plans (LTPs): |
| See Transport Policies Program. |
| |
| LPAC: |
| London Planning Advisory Committee. |
| |
| London distributor road: |
| The main bus and traffic carrying routes in the Borough. |
| |
| Manufacturing industry/sector: |
| Industries whose activities are primarily concerned with the
making and processing of goods (Sections D, E and F of the Standard
Industrial Classification 1992.) |
| |
| Medium-term parking: |
| Parking for two to four hours. |
| |
| Metropolitan open land (MOL): |
| Area of predominantly open land or water which is of significance
to London as a whole or a part of London (see para 5.24). |
| |
| Metropolitan park: |
| A park of at least 60 hectares providing a wide range of sports
and recreation facilities for households within about 3.2 km
of the park (or more if the park is appreciably larger). |
| |
| Micro recycling centres: |
| As set out in policy CCE 23, these will serve a limited residential
area and will be sought in residential schemes of six units
or above. |
| |
| Mini recycling centres: |
| As set out in policy CCE 23, these centres will be required
as part of the development of large sites, especially in areas
where recycling facilities are inadequate. |
| |
| Mixed use areas: |
| As shown on the proposals map, where a mixture of commercial,
retail and residential uses predominate. |
| |
| Mobility standards/Mobility housing: |
| Ordinary housing built to a certain basic standard so that
it can be occupied or adapted to be lived in by the majority
of people with disabilities. Its principal features are: |
| (a) level or ramped approach and flush threshold at the main
entrance; |
| (b) corridors and doorsteps to the principal rooms at entrance
level wide enough for wheelchair use. |
| The Council's mobility standards are set out more fully in
supplementary planning guidance ‘Design for Maximum Access'. |
| |
| Net floorspace: |
| The lettable floor area that can be put to operational use
and hence therefore excludes such parts of the building as stairs,
lifts, corridors, halls, lavatories, plant rooms and, in the
case of shops, storage space. |
| |
| Net residential area: |
| The area of the site devoted to residential use including
access roads within the site, private garden space, car parking
areas, incidental open space and landscaping and children’s
play areas (where provided). It excludes major distributor roads,
primary schools, open spaces serving a wider area and significant
landscape buffer strips. |
| |
| Non-retail showroom: |
| Premises used primarily for display where no direct retail
sale to the public is intended, and which do not fall within
the definition of Class A1 the Town and Country Planning (Use
Classes) Order 1987. As such the definition could include an
industrial machine tools showroom but exclude a furniture showroom. |
| |
| Non-retail use: |
| The use of premises for purposes other than as a shop as defined
by Class A2 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order
1987. |
| |
| Non self contained accommodation: |
| See house in multiple occupation. |
| |
| Off-street servicing: |
| The loading and unloading of commercial vehicles off the highway
in specially provided service areas. |
| |
| Office: |
| Premises used for the purposes of administrative and clerical
work, handling money, telephone and telegraph operating and
the operation of computers. Such uses now fall within Class
B1 Business of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order
1987. Offices used for the provision of financial and professional
services such as estate agents and solicitors where the services
are provided principally to visiting members of the public now
fall within Class A2 of the same order. |
| |
| Operational parking: |
| Parking space essential for the functioning of the occupiers
of a development. See Appendix A Car Parking Standards. |
| |
| Other principal roads: |
| Roads other than Strategic Roads (trunk and designated principal
roads) in which the traffic function predominates over local
needs. They provide links between Strategic Roads, access to
strategic centres for short and medium distance traffic and
main bus routes. |
| |
| Outstanding planning permission: |
| Where planning permission has been granted for development
but has not yet been implemented or the permission has not lapsed. |
| |
| Part-time workers: |
| Persons normally working for not more than 30 hours per week. |
| |
| Pedestrianisation: |
| The exclusion from a highway of all or most motor vehicles
for up to 24 hours a day. Normally the street is paved over
to a single level and suitable street furniture, trees, planting
boxes, etc. are placed in the street in order to improve its
appearance. |
| |
| Permitted development: |
| Development for which the permission of the Local Planning
Authority is not required. (Town and Country Planning (General
Permitted Development) Order 1995, Article 3 and Schedule 2.) |
| |
| PLA: |
| Port of London Authority. |
| |
| Planning advantage: |
| The provision of some elements of public benefit, such as
open space, housing or leisure facilities, at little or no cost
to the community. |
| |
| Priority (Red) Route: |
| Route to serve strategic longer distance movements, and to
improve the movement of traffic generally and buses in particular,
under the supervision of the Traffic Director for London. All
trunk roads in the Borough have been designated Priority (Red)
Routes. |
| |
| Private non-residential parking: |
| Parking spaces provided at places of work for employees and
visitors, but not available to the general public. |
| |
| |
| Public footpath: |
| A highway over which the public have a right of way on foot
only, not adjoining a carriageway. |
| |
| Public open space: |
| Parks, recreation grounds and gardens provided by the local
authority or central government for public use even if they
are closed at certain times. Public open space does not include
school playing fields nor the amenity areas associated with
the development of homes or flats or pedestrian precincts (Local
Government Act 1966 Section 8). The River Thames towpath to
which the public have unrestricted access is also considered
locally to be public open space. |
| |
| Public right of way: |
| A right of passage by the public over the surface of the land
without impediment. Includes public footpaths, bridleways and
byways open to all traffic. It does not imply other rights -
for example to stop. |
| |
| Public transport accessibility: |
| An assessment of proximity to and frequency of public transport
services, giving relative accessibility on a scale of 1 to 6
where 1 is the lowest provision and 6 the highest. |
| |
| Regional park: |
| A large area of over 400 hectares primarily providing for
informal recreation with some non intensive active recreational
uses for households within 3.2 to 8km of the park. |
| |
| Scheduled ancient monument: |
| A building included in the Schedule of Monuments compiled
under Section 1 of the Ancient Monuments, and Archaeological
Areas Act 1979. Scheduled monuments have statutory protection
under this Act (Section 2) and an application for scheduled
monument consent must be made to the Secretary of State for
the Environment if work to a scheduled monument is proposed.
The Secretary of State for the Environment is |
| responsible for the scheduling under the provisions of the
Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. Scheduled
ancient monuments are excluded from listed building control
procedures. Prior notice of works to scheduled ancient monuments
must be given to the Secretary of State. |
| |
| Secondary (shopping) frontage: |
| Area intended for shopping use where complementary non-retail
uses such as cafes, launderettes, estate agents, copy bureaux,
etc. may be permitted. |
| |
| Section 106 agreement: |
| An agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning
Act 1990 made between the Council and developer/land owner to
restrict or regulate the development of the land. |
| |
| SERPLAN: |
| The London and South East Regional Planning Conference. |
| |
| Service industry: |
| Activities which are primarily concerned with providing services
for the benefit of the population and/or other industries. Includes
insurance, banking and finance, provision of gas, electricity
and water, transport, communications, retailing and wholesaling,
and central and local government (Sections G-Q of the Standard
Industrial Classification (1992)). |
| |
| Shared ownership: |
| A form of tenure designed to help first-time buyers, whereby
households partly own and partly rent their homes. |
| |
| Short-term and medium-term parking: |
| Parking for less than four hours. |
| |
| Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI): |
| An area of land which in the opinion of the Nature Conservancy
Council is worthy of protection and is of special interest by
reasons of any of its flora, fauna or geological features (see
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Section 28). |
| |
| Small groups of shops: |
| Groups having five or less retail shops. |
| |
| Small local park: |
| A park of less than two hectares providing gardens, sitting
out areas and/or children/s playground for households less than
400 m from the park. |
| |
| Smaller centre: |
| A shopping centre which caters mostly for day-to-day needs,
and for ‘topping-up' between main shopping trips. These centres
vary considerably in size from over 100 shops to groups of 6. |
| |
| Socio-economic groups (SEGs): |
| A census classification of 17 groups based on employment status
and occupation (or former occupation) bringing together people
with jobs of similar social and economic status e.g. professional
workers, skilled manual workers, etc. (1991 census). |
| |
| The Mayor of London’s Spatial Development Strategy: |
| also known as the London Plan has replaced the previous strategic
planning guidance for London (RPG 3). The first step in the
process: ‘Towards a London Plan’ was published by the Greater
London Authority in May 2001. |
| |
| Special industrial uses: |
| Classes B3 to B7 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes)
Order 1987. Use for carrying out an industrial process that
would not normally be acceptable in any residential area as
the industrial process can give rise to the production of unpleasant
or noxious pollutants. |
| |
| Specialist shop: |
| Shop selling a relatively narrow range of goods, such as antiques,
musical instruments, records, stamps, etc. |
| |
| Statutory list of buildings of special architectural
or historic interest: |
| A list of buildings prepared by the Department of the Environment
under Sections 1 and 2 of the Town and Country Planning (Listed
Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. Buildings included
in the list are commonly called ‘listed buildings’ and a specific
form of permission known as ‘listed building consent’ is required
for their alteration, extension or demolition. Control also
applies to any object or structure within the curtilage of a
listed building. |
| |
| Statutory undertaker: |
| Persons authorised by enactment to carry out any railway,
light railway, tramway, road transport, water transport etc.
undertaking. Any public gas supplier, water or sewerage undertaker,
the Environment Agency, the Post Office and the Civil Aviation
Authority are deemed to be statutory undertakers (Town and Country
Planning Act 1990, Section 262). |
| |
| Storage and distribution: |
| Class B8 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order
1987. Use for storage or as a distribution centre. |
| |
| Strategic centre: |
| A centre in London designated in the GLDP and later modified
by LPAC as of strategic importance to London. They are suggested
as the right place to concentrate cultural, entertainment, recreational
and employment uses as well as shopping. |
| |
| Strategic Planning Advice for London: |
| Produced by LPAC in 1994 to inform the Secretary of State
for the Environment on planning matters and recommend policies
on issues of London-wide importance. |
| |
| Strategic Planning Guidance for London: |
| Strategic Guidance for London Planning Authorities, May 1996,
and Strategic Planning Guidance for the River Thames, February
1997, from the GOL provides guidance for boroughs in preparing
UDPs. |
| |
| Strategic Road Network: |
| The highest level of the road network in the Borough, made
up of trunk roads, priority (red) routes and designated roads. |
| |
| Strategic route: |
| A road forming part of the Strategic Road Network whose function
is to provide for the longer distance journeys, to link London
to the national road system and to reduce traffic demands on
secondary roads. Primary roads include all the trunk roads in
the Borough. |
| |
| Street furniture: |
| A general term for equipment erected in the street e.g. traffic
lights, road signs, litter bins, seats, bus shelters, bollards,
lighting columns, etc. |
| |
| Supermarket: |
| A self-service food shop of between 300 sq m and 3700 sq m
gross floorspace. This represents approximately 185 sq m to
2320 sqm of net floorspace. |
| |
| Superstore: |
| A single level, self service store offering a wide range of
food and non-food merchandise with at least 2,322 sq m of net
floorspace.. This represents a gross size of about 3,700 sq
m. They are invariably supported by car parking (Unit for Retail
Planning Information). |
| |
| Sustainable Development: |
| Development which meets the needs of the present generation,
balancing environmental, social and economic needs, without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs. |
| |
| Thames Policy Area: |
| A designation proposed by Strategic Guidance for the River
Thames 1997 (RPG 3b/9b) to be subject to specific policy aimed
at securing a consistent approach to strategic river issues,
and in particular a high standard of design. |
| |
| Traffic calming: |
| Applying traffic management measures such as road humps for
the purpose of reducing the speed and/or volume of traffic,
usually within residential areas. |
| |
| Traffic Director for London: |
| Responsible for the introduction, maintenance and operation
of Priority (Red) Routes, and the approval authority for designated
roads. Reports directly to the Secretary of State for Transport.
|
| |
| Traffic management: |
| Measures to facilitate or control the movement or type of
traffic using the road or series of roads. |
| |
| Traffic restraint: |
| Controlling traffic volumes by bans, parking restrictions,
implementing tolls, electronic road pricing or other means,
usually applied to a town or city. |
| |
| Transport Policies and Programme (TPP): |
| A five year rolling programme submitted annually to the Department
of the Environment, Transport and the Regions by each local
highway authority. The TPP contains transport proposals (which
should be in line with the policies of the UDP) for which central
Government funding is sought. The TPP process has however, been
rescinded in favour of Local Transport Plans. The structuring
of such plans are however still in their embryonic state and
further details are awaited. Nevertheless LTPs are likely to
cover a five year period and as with TPP conformity to central
Government policies and the policies as listed in the UDP is
likely to be an essential requirement. |
| |
| Transport Supplementary Grant (TSG): |
| A government grant given to each highway authority which is
determined on the basis of the estimates of transport expenditure
contained in the TPP. |
| |
| Tree preservation order (TPO): |
| An order made under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
in order to preserve trees of amenity value (such as forest
trees). The cutting down, topping or lopping of such trees cannot
be done without Council consent. There are additional powers
to protect trees in conservation areas (Section 61(a)). |
| |
| Trunk road: |
| A road for which the Highways Agency is the highway authority.
The A205 and A316 are the only such roads in the Borough. Trunk
roads form part of the strategic road network. |
| |
| Unemployed: |
| Persons registered for employment at a local employment office
or careers service office on the day of the monthly count, who
on that day have no job and are capable of and available for
work and are in receipt of benefit payments. |
| |
| Unemployment rate: |
| The number of persons registered unemployed as a percentage
of the resident economically active population aged 16 or over. |
| |
| Unitary Development Plan (UDP): |
| Borough-wide statutory development plan which sets out the
Council's proposals for the development and use of land including
measures for the improvement of the physical environment and
the management of traffic over the next ten years. Prepared
in accordance with the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. |
| |
| Walking distance: |
| Generally considered to be 400 metres. |
| |
| Wheelchair housing: |
| Housing suitable for the use of people with severe disabilities
and permanently confined to wheelchairs. It generally needs
to be on one level, have easy access, and be above average space
standards in order to allow full wheelchair manoeuvre throughout.
(The Council's wheelchair housing standards are set out more
fully in supplementary planning guidance ‘Design for Maximum
Access'.) |
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