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12. GLOSSARY

AAP

Accessibility

Adoption

Affordable housing

AMR

Binding report

Brownfield

Brown roof

Bulky goods

Circular 5/05

City Centre Framework

City Centre Strategy and Action Plan

Combined Heat and Power

Community facilities

Community involvement

Community Strategy

Comparison retail

Conservation area

Core Strategy

Area Action Plan. A plan for an area of significant change or conservation.

The ability to access places and services, to be able to get about Reading or get to specific facilities.

Adoption is the point at which a planning document becomes official policy.

Housing provided at below market price to meet the identified needs of an area.

Annual Monitoring Report. A yearly report showing how the Council are keeping to their timetable and what the effects of their plans are.

The report that a Planning Inspector gives on a development plan document after an examination – the Council must make the recommended changes.

Land which has been previously developed.

A roof surfaced with a broken substrate, e.g. broken bricks.

Goods which are large and often require shopping trips to be made by car: e.g. furniture, DIY products etc.

The Government document that sets out the requirements for Section 106 agreements.

A study report by consultants Llewelyn Davies which makes recommendations for the development of the centre. It has no policy weight.

A document produced by Reading City Centre Management for the urban regeneration, inward investment and economic development of the centre. It covers the period 2005-2010.

Combined Heat and Power (CHP) units generate electricity through an engine and capture the by-product, combustion heat, for use in heating and hot water systems.

Facilities and services which are of benefit to the wider community. See the Core Strategy for a definition of community facilities as it applies to the LDF.

Involvement of various individuals, groups and organisations and the general public in preparing planning documents.

A document that all local authorities are required to produce. It should aim to improve the quality of life for local communities through partnership working and improvements in service delivery.

Retail of goods, such as clothes, records, books which are often purchased after a comparison of prices and available alternatives.

Defined areas of special architectural or historic interest which are worth preserving. The document setting out the main principles and spatial strategy of the LDF. See LDF below.


CPO

Design and Access Statement

Development briefs

DPD

Dwelling

Evening Economy

Examination

Flood Risk Assessment

Flood Zones

Green Roof

Housing trajectory

IDR

Issues and Options

Implementation

Infrastructure

LDD

LDF

LDS

Legibility

Compulsory Purchase Order. This is a means for local authorities to acquire land needed to help deliver economic and social change, under the Acquisition of Land Act 1981.

These accompany a planning application to explain the design of the proposal.

Documents setting out planning principles for a specific site. Also known as planning briefs.

Development Plan Document. A document which is the main consideration in deciding planning applications.

A single housing unit – a house, flat, maisonette etc.

A term for the business activities, particularly those used by the public, which take place in the evening. This includes pubs, clubs, restaurants and arts/cultural uses.

DPDs are assessed at an examination, during which the Planning Inspector assesses the soundness of the document.

A requirement at planning application stage to demonstrate how flood risk will be managed.

The Environment Agency designate flood zones to reflect the differing risks of flooding. Flood Zone 1 is low probability, Flood Zone 2 is medium probability, Flood Zone 3a is high probability and Flood Zone 3b is functional floodplain. See PPS25.

A roof with vegetation on top of an impermeable membrane.

A tool to compare how much housing the authority will provide against its requirement, and manage the supply.

Inner Distribution Road – the road circling Reading’s core, made up of Queens Road, Caversham Road, Vastern Road, Forbury Road and part of Watlington Street.

The first consultation stage in producing development plan documents.

The means by which aims and strategies are carried out.

The basic services and facilities needed for the smooth running of a community.

Local Development Document. A document making up part of the planning strategy.

Local Development Framework. A set of documents which together makes up the planning strategy for an authority.

Local Development Scheme. The programme for producing planning documents.

‘The degree to which a place can be easily understood and traversed’ (source of definition: By Design, 2000).


Listed building

Local Plan

LTP

Main town centre uses

Massing

Microclimate

Morphology

MRT

Multi-modal interchange

Permeability

Planning briefs

Planning Inspector

PPG/PPS

Preferred Options

Proposals map

Public realm

RCAAP

Regional hub

Retail warehouse

RSS

Buildings of special architectural or historic interest. Permission is required before works that might affect their character or appearance can be undertaken. They are divided into Grades I, II and II*, with I being of exceptional interest.

The main planning document for a District or Borough. These are being replaced by the new system of LDFs.

Local Transport Plan. A five year plan setting out the strategy and priority for transport.

Uses to which PPS 6 applies – retail; leisure, entertainment and more intensive sport and recreation; offices; and arts, culture and tourism.

‘The combined effect of the height, bulk and silhouette of a building or group of buildings’ (source of definition: By Design, 2000).

The climate of a small area.

The historic pattern and grain of development.

Mass Rapid Transit. A proposal in Reading for a completely new or hybrid public transport system to complement the existing provision.

A transport interchange which is served by a number of modes of transport.

‘The degree to which an area has a variety of pleasant, convenient and safe routes through it’ (source of definition: By Design, 2000).

Documents setting out planning principles for a specific site. Also known as development briefs.

A Planning Inspector is appointed by the Secretary of State to examine planning proposals and documents, and issue a binding report.

Planning Policy Guidance/Statements. Documents containing national planning policy guidance on different topics. PPG’s are being replaced with PPS’s.

The second community involvement stage of a DPD. The general preferred approach is presented without details such as policy wording.

A map on an Ordnance Survey base which shows the sites and locations to which policies apply.

‘The parts of a village, town and city (whether publicly or privately owned) that are available, without charge, for everyone to use or see, including streets, squares and parks’ (source of definition: By Design, 2000).

Reading Central Area Action Plan. An AAP for central Reading. See AAP above. A regional hub is a location identified at regional level as a focus for transport services and economic activity. 21 are identified in the South East.

A large, often single-level store, often specialising in the sale of bulky goods such as furniture or DIY, catering for mainly car-borne customers.

Regional Spatial Strategy. A development plan which covers the whole region. In this area, the RSS is called the South East Plan.


Scheduled Ancient Monument

SEA

Section 106 agreement

Sequential approach

Site Specific Allocations Document

Soundness

South East Plan

Spatial options

SPG/SPD

Submission

Sustainability Appraisal

Sustainability objectives

Sustainable development

Undercroft parking

Urban design

Urban renaissance

Use class

Waterspace

Specified nationally important archaeological sites.

Strategic Environmental Assessment. A European directive means that an SEA must be completed for all local development documents. This has been made part of the sustainability appraisal process.

A legally binding agreement or obligation entered into by the local authority and a land developer over an issue related to a planning application, under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

A method of considering and ranking the suitability of sites for development, so that one type of site is considered before another. Different sequential approaches are applied to different uses.

A document identifying sites for different types of development or for policies which are specific to certain areas.

When holding an examination into planning documents, the role of the Inspector is to decide whether the documents are ‘sound’. The Planning Inspectorate has set out a list of what makes up ‘soundness’, set out at Appendix 1.

The emerging main regional planning document for the south east.

Options for the future development which covers specific areas or sites.

Supplementary Planning Guidance/Documents. Planning documents which provide more detailed information than DPD’s, but do not have the same weight. The new planning system in 2004 replaced SPG with SPD, but they play similar roles.

The stage at which a draft DPD is submitted to the Secretary of State for examination.

A sustainability appraisal should be completed for all local development documents at all stages. It highlights the main environmental, economic and social effects of the document.

The eighteen objectives against which policies and documents are appraised in the sustainability appraisal.

Development to improve quality of life and protect the environment in balance with the local economy, for now and future generations.

Car parking located beneath a development.

‘Urban design involves the design of buildings, groups of buildings, spaces and landscapes, … and the establishment of frameworks and processes which facilitate successful development’ (source of definition: By Design, 2000).

Making towns and cities places where people want to spend time and live.

There is a list of 13 use classes introduced through the Use Classes Order legislation. Planning permission is not needed for a change of use within a single use class.

The areas alongside and close to main river and canal corridors.


APPENDIX 1: TESTS OF SOUNDNESS

i The DPD has been prepared in accordance with the Local Development Scheme.

ii The DPD has been prepared in compliance with the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI), or with the minimum requirements set out in the regulations where no SCI exists.

iii The plan and its policies have been subjected to Sustainability Appraisal.

iv (a) It is a spatial plan which has regard to other relevant plans, policies and

(b) It is consistent with national planning policy.

(c) The plan is in general conformity with Regional Spatial Strategy or, where relevant, the Spatial Development Strategy in London.

v It has had regard to the authority’s Community Strategy.

vi The strategies/policies/allocations in the plan are coherent and consistent within and between Development Plan Documents prepared by the authority and by neighbouring authorities, where cross boundary issues are relevant.

vii The strategies/policies/allocations represent the most appropriate in all the circumstances, having considered the relevant alternatives, and they are founded on a robust and credible evidence base.

viii There are clear mechanisms for implementation and monitoring.

ix It is reasonably flexible to enable it to deal with changing circumstances.

Please see Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Development Frameworks (2004) and A Guide to the Process of Assessing the Soundness of Development Plan Documents (Planning Inspectorate, 2006)


APPENDIX 2: HOUSING TRAJECTORY

In accordance with Planning Policy Statement 12 (paragraph 4.25), where a Development Plan Document relates to housing, a housing trajectory should be produced which will show how the plan will deliver the policies relevant to housing. In general terms, this shows the anticipated delivery of new housing against requirements. In accordance with PPS3, delivery will be monitored against the trajectory.

A borough-wide housing trajectory is contained in the Core Strategy. This appendix includes a housing trajectory specific to the area of the RCAAP. The Core Strategy gives an indication of the levels of housing that it expects the central area of Reading to accommodate, in paragraphs 6.11 and 6.12, which is 40% of the Borough total. This equates to 220 dwellings per annum over the plan period. As the trajectory shows in the following graph and table, sites in the RCAAP are able to comfortably accommodate this requirement.


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