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Advertisements: A wide range of
written or pictorial information which may be on a fascia, canopy, banner or
board, being projecting, pole or fence mounted, or directional, for example.
Amenity: The attributes which create
and influence the quality of life of individuals or communities, such as
environmental conditions, physical, social, recreational or cultural features.
Amusement Arcade: An amusement
centre, often of open fronted or walk through design, generally having a greater
variety of entertainments and more usually associated with holiday resorts.
Amusement Centre: Premises used
primarily for the playing of amusement machines with or without prizes.
Ancillary Use: A use which is
incidental to but an integral part of the main use of a site or building and
which may not in itself need planning permission.
Aquifer: A natural, subterranean
accumulation of water created by specific underground conditions.
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB):
National designation to conserve the natural beauty of particular landscapes of
nationally recognised importance.
Area of Great Landscape Value (AGLV):
Local designation to conserve the natural beauty of landscapes of locally
recognised importance.
Article 4 Direction: Made by the
Local Planning Authority to require planning permission to be sought on specific
types of permitted development.
Backland Development: Development of an area separated from a county
road by existing frontage development and thus requiring provision of a new
development road.
Biodiversity Action Plan: A strategy conserving and increasing the
variety of plants and animals at the local level, therefore, contributing
towards the preservation of the earth’s species in the future.
Bio-tech Unit: A septic tank system which uses bacteria which thrive
in oxygen to improve the standard of discharged effluent.
Brownfield Site: Land usually in an urban area which has been
previously used and may have potential for re-use for redevelopment or as open
space. This may include sites in the countryside which have been developed for
industrial or other purposes, but does not include buildings or land used for
agricultural purposes.
Building Preservation Notice: Served by the Local Planning Authority
for emergency preservation of buildings under immediate threat (to be confirmed
later by the Secretary of State for National Heritage as Listed Building).
Buslincs: The network of Lincolnshire County Council's tendered bus
serves, not commercially viable but considered to be a social necessity in terms
of travel to work and shopping trips.
Caravan: A structure for human accommodation capable of being moved by
road without disassembling and which does not exceed 60 feet long, 20 feet wide
and 10 feet high and which may include cabins or chalets.
Catchment (also hinterland): The area from which customers are drawn
for any particular service or facility.
Certificated Site: Touring caravan sites of 5 or less vans having a
certificate from the Caravan and Camping Club or Caravan Club giving exemption
from planning control.
Character: The distinguishable or recognisable identity, impression or
expectation of a particular place or area created by its particular innate
properties, including sights, sounds and activities.
Coastal Flood Plain: Land at risk from flooding from the sea but for
the presence of defences.
Commitments: Refers to land that benefits from planning permission,
that may or not have work commenced on the site. Most often used in relation to
housing land.
Comparison Goods: Goods that are generally more expensive and bulkier
than convenience goods such as clothes, furniture and electrical appliances.
Conservation: The regulation of change to ensure the preservation and
enhancement of built and natural features of acknowledged importance or
interest.
Conservation Area: Designated to conserve and enhance the (usually)
built environments of special historical or architectural importance or natural
areas of particular nature importance, e.g. coastal.
Contaminated Land: Land which is in such a condition by reasons of
substances in, on or under the land, that it poses an actual or potential hazard
to health and/or the environment. Often this land is incapable of beneficial use
without treatment.
Convenience Goods: Every day shopping items such as most foods,
newspapers or toiletries for example.
Countryside Business: An enterprise that, by its very nature or
requirements, has to be closely related to its countryside setting.
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Development: All building, engineering, mining or other operation in,
on, over or under land; or any material change of use in buildings or land.
Derelict Land: Land so damaged by industrial or other development as
to be incapable for further beneficial use without treatment.
Development Brief: A statement of development opportunities and
constraints for a particular site prepared to guide potential developers.
Disadvantaged: Those individuals or groups of people of people who are
less able to achieve the "quality of life" normally expected by the general
populous because of age, sex, health, disability or economic circumstances.
Environment Assessment/Statement: A written statement the Local
Planning Authority may require (although it is mandatory in some cases) from
planning applications setting out in detail the effect that a proposed large new
development will have on it surrounding area.
Farm Diversification: The establishment of enterprises unrelated to
mainstream farming. Such as those associated with leisure activities, which are
operated as part of the farm holding to help to maintain its viability.
Flood Plains: All land below highest known water level in adjacent
watercourse over which water flows in time of flood, or would flow but for the
presence of flood defences where they exist.
Flood Risk Assessment: A detailed assessment that examines
site-specific flooding issues. This is usually in addition to and expands on the
District’s Strategic Flood Risk Assessment.
Frontage Development: Built development which not only derives direct
and individual access from a county road but which also forms a building line in
fairly close proximity to the road.
Full Planning Permission: Planning permission which includes the
agreed details of development.
Greenfield Site: A field or area where development has not previously
taken place.
Habitat Survey: A competently prepared description and list of plants
and animals found on or about a site or area, throughout the year and may
include climate and soil conditions if appropriate.
High-tech: An operation at the forefront of technological innovation
which generally provides expert services or produces specialised items, is often
non-polluting, fairly footloose and employs principally qualified, professional,
scientific and skilled staff, e.g. research and information, telecommunications
and computer based industries.
Historic Building Grant: A grant given for the additional costs of
specific materials or expertise, necessary in preserving a Listed Building or
important building within a Conservation Area.
Holiday Accommodation: The overnight provision for paying visitors not
normally resident in the District.
Holiday Character: The sights and sounds which promote holiday
enjoyment and visitor expectations of movement, colour, noise (as appropriate)
public place, modern or cosmopolitan style.
Infill Development: The development of a small gap, normally for one
or two dwellings, in an otherwise built-up length of road frontage within a
settlement.
Infrastructure: The necessary basic services on which all development
depends, for example, sewerage, drainage, water, electricity, roads etc.
Intensive Livestock Units: Buildings and associated works for the
controlled breeding, containment or processing of animals for intensive food
production and which are not functionally related to grazing land.
Landscaping: A general term used for the means by which, where
appropriate, development is made to fit visually into its surroundings by use of
space and control of siting and layout and use pf trees. shrubs or grass (soft
landscaping) and/or fences, walls or paving (hard landscaping).
Lapsed Planning Permission: Planning permission which is no longer
operative because development has not commenced before the expiry date of the
permission.
Listed Building: Identified through periodic surveys as being of
special historic or architectural importance and considered worthy of
protection. "Spot listing" is the listing of individual buildings as and when
they arise for consideration.
Listed Building Consent: The prior, written consent of the LPA for
work to a listed building.
Local Nature Reserves (LNR): Designated by Local Planning Authorities
in conjunction with English Nature (formerly NCC) to protect areas of local
nature interest and importance.
Local Planning Authority (LPA): East Lindsey District Council is
responsible for considering planning applications for development and other
department control powers. (Lincolnshire County Council is the responsible
authority in respect of strategic matters mainly relating to highways, minerals
and waste disposal.)
Local Transport Plan: A document that covers all forms of transport
and is designated to co-ordinate and improve local transport provision.
Material/Materially: Relevant in terms of planning considerations.
National Nature Reserve (NNR): Area of national or international
importance and managed for nature conversation use.
Open Countryside: All the area outside towns, villages and other
settlements which is largely free of built development on a significant scale
and comprises not only agricultural land but other open air uses such as
woodland, water, mineral workings, or golf courses, for example. This,
therefore, will encompass small groups of dwellings, ribbon development, gardens
etc.
Open Space: An area of land, regardless of ownership, upon which no
significant built development has taken place or from which such development has
been removed, Areas of open water and woodlands are also included.
Operational and non-operational parking: Operational parking space is
for vehicles regularly and necessarily involved in the servicing or operation of
a use of a site or building whereas non-operational spaces are for other
vehicles such as staff or client parking.
Outline Planning Permission: Planning permission which establishes
that broad principles of development are acceptable but that details have not
been agreed.
Outstanding Planning Permission: Planning permission where the
approved development has not yet commenced and is still within the life span of
the permission.
Permitted Development: Minor types of development as set out in the
General Development Order, which does not require planning permission.
Planning Conditions: Planning permission for development may be
conditional on other work or undertakings being carried out by the developer,
provided they are reasonable and justifiable in planning terms.
Planning Obligation: An agreement between the Local Planning Authority
and an interested party or a unilateral undertaking by that person or developer,
under Section 106 of the 1991 Act, covenanting certain measures related to a
planning permission.
Planning Permission: The prior, written consent of the Local Planning
Authority which all development, except permitted development, must have before
commencement and which may expire within a certain time period.
Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPGs): These provide government
guidance on planning policies.
Public Local Inquiry: The procedure by which people have their
objections to a Local Plan heard by an independent Inspector appointed by the
Secretary of State for the Environment.
Ramsar Site: Designated by the Secretary of State for the Environment
to protect wetlands of international importance, particularly for waterfowl
habitats.
Recreation – Formal and Informal: Leisure time physical activities.
Formal recreation activities usually require special equipment or "fixed"
facilities, advance organisation and encompasses most sports. Informal
recreation usually requires little, if a y, special public provision or "fixed"
facilities and is usually capable of being undertaken on a spur of the moment
basis by individuals or groups.
Regionally Important Geological/ Geomorphological Sites (RGGS):
Designated by English Nature.
Renewable Energy: Energy flows that occur naturally and repeatedly in
the environment, for examples, sun, wind, ocean, fall of water, geothermal,
combustible waste.
Residential Character: The sights and sounds normally associated with
a sense of permanency. quiet enjoyment and privacy for examples.
Residential Mobile Home: A caravan or lager single or twin unit
capable of transportation by road and used as a primary place of residence.
Ribbon Development: A linear form of single or double sided frontage
development extended into the countryside or between settlements,. creating
multi-access points onto the road.
Rural Development Programme (RDP); An agreed programme of assistance
for various community projects within the Rural Development Area, designated by
the Rural Development Commission.
Scheduled Ancient Monument: A feature of special national historical
or archaeological importance, either above or below the ground, considered
worthy of protection.
Section 106 Agreement: A voluntary legal agreement between the Local
Planning Authority and developer, tied to a planning permission, which covers
matters outside the scope of normal planning conditions.
Seedbed Industry: A small scale activity, usually in a garage or shed
or purpose-built starter unit which may have potential for growth in income and
employment generation.
Settlement: A well-defined grouping of buildings, predominantly
residential but including other uses, which have a recognisable form or identity
or function and a common place name. Therefore, a loose cluster of dwellings in
the countryside may not necessarily be regarded as a settlement for the
;purposes of the Local Plan policies.
Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI): Designated by English
Nature (formerly the NCC) because of nationally important wildlife or geology
which is worthy of protection.
Sites of Nature Conservation Importance (SNCI): Identified by English
Nature, the LAP or Lincolnshire and South Humberside Trust for Nature
Conservation as important because of their naturalness; size; rarity; diversity;
fragility; typicalness.
Special Protection Area (SPA): International designation by English
Nature (formerly the NCC) to protect the habitats of threatened species of
wildlife.
Spot Listing: To give Listed Building status to appropriate buildings
in immediate danger of losing their special characteristics, undertaken by the
Secretary of State for National Heritage.
Strategic Flood Risk Assessment: An assessment usually under taken by
a Local Authority at a District–wide level that considers flood risk, both
fluvial and tidal and examines the risks involved for developing certain areas
within the District.
Structure Plan: Planning document prepared by Lincolnshire County
Council setting out policies for strategic land use matters throughout the
County – but rarely site specific.
Supplementary Planning Guidance: These are non statutory documents
issued by a Local Planning Authority in order to provided detailed guidance in
relation to specific policies and proposals of a development plan. They can take
the form of development briefs and design guides and may be a material
consideration when considering planning applications.
Sustainable Development: That which meets the needs of the present
without comprising the needs of the future.
Tandem Development: Development of a plot of land having no frontage
of its own to a county road, located behind and sharing access with existing
frontage development.
Telecommunications: All forms of communications by electrical or
optical wire and cable and radio signals, whether terrestrial or satellite, both
public and private.
Tourism: The short term movement of people away from their normal
place of residence or work (English Tourist Board definition).
Tourism Industry: The business of providing for different types of
visitor; overnight or longer stay and day visitors and includes accommodation,
car parking, entertainment and attractions, food and drink.
Tourist Attraction: The use of land or buildings economically
dependant primarily on paying day visitors attracted from outside as well as
inside the District.
Town Scheme Grant: A grant given for additional costs of special
materials necessary in preserving buildings considered of importance to the
character of the area defined in a Town Scheme.
Traffic Calming: The aims and means of directing and slowing down
vehicles to reduce conflict with pedestrians and other vehicles.
Traffic Management Scheme: The regulation of traffic to achieve a
particular traffic operational and/or environmental objective relating to
safety, access, directions, speed or parking which may involve pedestrian
priority, loading restrictions for examples.
Tree Preservation Order (TPO): Made to protect the amenity value to
the public of either individual or groups of trees.
Undeveloped Frontage: Land fronting a county road upon which there is
no substantial built, permanent development in close proximity to the road. This
therefore may include play areas, gardens where the dwelling is sited so well
back that it gives the appearance of undeveloped frontage, paddocks, car parks
and storage areas.
Urban Capacity Study: An assessment to establish how much housing land
can be accommodated within urban areas. All local planning authorities are
required to undertake such studies.
Use Classes Order: A legal order which sets out which changes of use
do not require planning permission because the existing and promised uses have
the same planning implications, i.e. they are within the same use class.
Village Form: The shape or pattern of a village evolved from gradual
development over time. For example, a linear village is one comprised primarily
of lengths of frontage development; a nucleated village is formed by development
concentrated around a focal point such as crossroads or village green. The
arrangement of development with a village, the relationship of different parts
to each other and to open space, i.e. its form, contributes greatly to its
character and sense of place.
Vitality and Viability: Usually refers to a health check of town
centres, with a number of indicator used including: - commercial property
yields; shop rents; pedestrian numbers and movements; the nature and diversity
of uses; and the proportion of vacant units.
Washlands: Areas of flood plain where water is stored in time of
flood.
Wildlife: Undomesticated species of plants and animals including
insects and reptiles.
Windfall Sites: Areas which are suitable for development within the
terms of planning policies and detailed settlement control criteria but the
availability of which is unpredictable because of dependence on, for example,
ownership, change of use or redevelopment.
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