Typology of open spaces, sport & recreation facilities

Quantity Standard

Accessibility Standard

1. Parks & Gardens

1.16ha per 1000 popn

15 minute walk time

2. Amenity Green Space

0.48ha per 1000 popn

10 minute walk time

3. Natural and Semi Natural Green Space

1.53ha per 1000 popn

15 minute walk time

4. Outdoor Sports Facilities

1.42ha per 1000 popn

15 minute walk time

5. Provision for Children e.g. Local Areas of Play, Local Equipped Areas for Play and Neighbourhood Equipped Areas for Play – LEAPs, NEAPs and DEAPs.

0.08ha per 1000 popn

10 minute walk time

6. Provision for Young People e.g. teen shelters, multi-use games areas

0.04ha per 1000 popn

15 minute walk time

7. Allotments

0. 41ha per 1000 popn

Should also have reference to Council waiting lists to indicate demand

15 minute walk time

8. Cemeteries & Churchyards

Standard not appropriate

Standard not appropriate

9. Ecological networks

Standard not appropriate

Standard not appropriate

10. Civic Spaces

Standard not appropriate

Standard not appropriate

11. Water/ River based

Standard not appropriate

Standard not appropriate

Active frontage

Adoption

Ground floor building frontage that is in use, for example as a restaurant or shop.

The final confirmation of a plan as a statutory document by the local planning authority.

Affordable Housing

Affordable housing includes affordable housing for rent and starter homes, discounted market sales housing and other affordable home ownership, provided to specified eligible households whose needs are not met by the market.

Amenity

Pleasantness of a place or circumstance. For planning purposes residential amenity is usually taken to include attributes such as privacy, access to daylight and sunlight, and absence of noise pollution. It does not include property values.

AMR

Annual Authority Monitoring Report

Reports progress with preparing the Local Plan and the extent to which policies are being achieved.

AA

Appropriate Assessment

An appropriate assessment, also known as a habitat regulations assessment, is the process of considering emerging policies against the habitats directive.

AAP

Area Action Plan

A type of development plan document relating to specific areas of major opportunity and change or conservation.

Area of Archaeological Importance

The Area of Archaeological Importance is a defined area where there is suggested to be significant known or a high potential for complex and sensitive archaeological deposits. It is based upon available evidence of buried archaeology, historic maps and information, standing structures and visual elements of the historic landscape. Within the local plan context, it is intended to alert applicants and planning officers to the likely requirements for archaeological investigation, protection and recording to be placed on development, on potentially even the smallest scale below-ground works.

AONB

AQMA

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Air Quality Management Areas

Ancient or veteran trees

A site with a statutory national landscape designation to provide special protection for the area's natural beauty. Designated by Natural England, the primary objective is to conserve the natural beauty of the landscape.

Areas designated by local authorities because they are not likely to achieve national air quality objectives by the relevant deadlines.

A tree which, because of its age, size and condition, is of exceptional biodiversity, cultural or heritage value. All ancient trees are veteran trees. Not all veteran trees are old enough to be ancient, but are old relative to other trees of the same species. Very few trees of any species reach the ancient life-stage.

Biodiversity

The variety of life on earth or in a specified region or area.

BAP

Biodiversity Action Plan

It is the UK Government's response to signing the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. The plan sets out a programme for conserving the UK's biodiversity, at national and local levels. The Suffolk Local Biodiversity Action Plan (Suffolk LBAP) is applicable for the county of Suffolk.

Biodiversity Net Gain

The National Planning Policy Framework encourages net gains for biodiversity to be sought through planning policies and decisions. Biodiversity net gain delivers measurable improvements for biodiversity by creating or enhancing habitats in association with development. Biodiversity net gain can be achieved on-site, off-site or through a combination of on-site and off-site measures. It may help local authorities to meet their duty under Section 40 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006.

Blue Corridors

Such as rivers and other waterbodies. These routes may be used for swimming, canoeing and other water-based activities, whether for leisure purposes or travel, and provide opportunities for wildlife migration and movement.

BfL 12

Building for Life 12

Building for life is a partnership between several national agencies, which sets standard for well-designed homes and neighbourhoods. It is led by CABE at the Design Council, Design for Homes and the Home Builders Federation.

BREEAM

Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method

It is a tool that allows the owners, users and designers of buildings to review and improve environmental performance throughout the life of a building.

BID

Business Improvement District

Brownfield sites

Brownfield Land Register

It is a public-private partnership in which businesses in a defined area elect to pay an additional tax in order to fund improvements to the district's public realm and trading environment. In Ipswich the BID is called Ipswich Central.

Development site on previously developed land.

Registers of previously developed land considered to be appropriate for residential development, having regard to criteria in the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Registers) Regulations 2017.

CRed

Carbon Reduction

Community Carbon Reduction Project is based in the East of England and is addressing the biggest environmental challenge of Climate Change. CRed is building a community of partners who are deciding how they want to cut their emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to meet a target of 60% reduction by 2025.

Circular

A Government publication setting out policy approaches.

CABE

Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

CABE was until 31^st March 2011 a statutory body sponsored by the Government. On 1^st April 2011 it was merged with the Design Council, to become an advisor on design in business innovation and the built environment.

CIL

Community Infrastructure Levy

Local authorities will be empowered to set a charge for most developments, through a simple formula related to the scale and type of scheme. The proceeds of the levy must be spent on local and sub-regional infrastructure to support the development of the area.

Community Strategy

Strategy for promoting the economic, environmental and social well-being of the area and contributing to the achievement of Borough wide sustainable development.

Comparison shopping

Comparison retailing is the provision of items not obtained on a frequent basis. These include clothing, footwear, household and recreational goods.

Convenience shopping

Convenience retailing is the provision of everyday essential items, including food, drinks, newspapers/magazines and confectionery.

Conservation Area

Defined areas within a local planning authority that are considered to be of special architectural or historic interest, the character and appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance. Conservation area designation introduces a general control over the demolition of unlisted buildings and provides a basis for the conservation of those aspects of character or appearance (including landscape and public spaces) that define the area's special interest. That special character could include elements such as the historic layout of roads, paths and boundaries and characteristic building and paving materials. All the features within the area, listed or otherwise, are recognised as part of its character. Conservation areas are identified in the National Planning Policy Framework as designated heritage assets.

Curtilage

It is the enclosed area of land around a dwelling. It is distinct from the dwelling by virtue of lacking a roof, but distinct from the area outside the enclosure in that it is enclosed within a wall or barrier of some sort.

Density of Residential Development

High density refers to new housing development of at least 90 dwellings per hectare (dph). Medium density refers to new housing development of at least 40 dph (the average will be taken as 45 dph). Low density refers to new housing development under 40 dph (the average will be taken as 35 dph).

Development brief

Document providing detailed information to guide developers on the type of development, design and layout constraints and other requirements for a particular, usually substantial, site.

Development Plan

Documents setting out the policies and proposals for the development and use of land and buildings.

DPD

Development Plan Document

A local development document in the Local Plan which forms part of the statutory development plan. The Core Strategy and Policies is a DPD.

DEAP

Destination Equipped Area for Play

Provides a wide range of play equipment, including 'water play', and as such tends to draw people from a wide catchment area.

Digital Infrastructure

Edge of Centre

European Sites

The entire spectrum of network, computer, and storage functions required for the successful delivery of applications and services in a mobile, digital economy.

For retail purposes it is a location that is well connected to and within easy walking distance (up to 300 metres) of the primary shopping area.

For all other town centre uses, it is likely to be within 300m of a town centre boundary.

For office uses, it may also mean outside the town centre but within 500m of a public transport interchange, within the urban area.

This includes Special Areas of Conservation, Sites of Community Importance, Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas, and is defined in regulation 8 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (as amended).

Geodiversity

The variety of rocks, fossils, minerals, landforms and soils along with the natural processes that shape the landscape.

Green Corridors

Such as river and canal banks, cycle ways, and rights of way. These linear routes may be used for walking, cycling or horse riding, whether for leisure purposes or travel, and provide opportunities for wildlife migration and movement.

Green Infrastructure

Sub regional network of protected sites, nature reserves, green spaces and greenway linkages, including river corridors and flood plains, migration routes and features of the landscape, which are important as wildlife corridors.

Green roof

The term to describe both intensive ornamental roof gardens and extensive roofs with more naturalistic plantings or self-established vegetation, which can provide a habitat for biodiversity.

Greenways Project

Gypsies and Travellers

Heritage Impact Assessment

Housing Market Area

Countryside Management Project for Ipswich and the surrounding area.

Persons of nomadic habit of life whatever their race or origin, including such persons who on grounds only of their own or their family's or dependents' educational or health needs or old age have ceased to travel temporarily, but excluding members of an organised group of travelling showpeople or circus people travelling together as such. In determining whether persons are 'gypsies and travellers' for the purposes of policy CS11, consideration should be given to the following issues amongst other relevant matters: a) whether they previously led a nomadic habit of life b) the reasons for ceasing their nomadic habit of life c) whether there is an intention of living a nomadic habit of life in the future, and if so, how soon and in what circumstances.

An assessment of the impact upon the historic environment caused by a proposed development.

A geographical area defined by household demand and preferences for all types of housing, reflecting the key functional linkages between places where people live and work.

IP-One

Central part of Ipswich including the town centre, the Waterfront, Portman Quarter and the Education Quarter.

Ipswich Standard

A standard applied to all housing owned by Ipswich Borough Council. It includes energy efficiency measures such as efficient combi boilers, double glazing and insulation.

Key Diagram

The key diagram illustrates the spatial strategy set out in the DPD and may show links and relationships with other strategies and neighbouring authorities.

Key Worker

Landmark Building

The Government's definition of key workers includes those groups eligible for the Key Worker Living Programme and others employed within the public sector (ie outside of this programme) identified by the Regional Housing Board for assistance.

A building which is distinctive in its design and appearance which has the potential to improve wayfinding through its landmark quality. It should be noted that a landmark building need not necessarily be tall and/or overscaled. A careful, bespoke design respecting the scale of adjacent residential buildings could still provide a building of distinctive landmark quality

Legibility

The extent to which a development or built up area can be navigated by both residents and visitors.

Listed Building

A building or structure designated by the Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport as being of special architectural or historical interest.

LDD

LEP

Local Development Document

Local Enterprise Partnership

A general term for a document in the Local Plan. It includes the Core Strategy and Policies and other development plan documents, and supplementary planning documents.

A body, designated by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, established for the purpose of creating or improving the conditions for economic growth in an area.

LEAP

Local Equipped Area for Play

Characteristics include five types of equipment and a small games area.

LNR

Local Nature Reserve

Sites of special natural interest which are designated under the National parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.

LPA

Local Planning Authority

The Local Authority that is empowered by law to exercise planning functions. Normally this is the Borough or District Council.

LSP

Local Strategic Partnership

A local strategic partnership is a partnership of stakeholders who develop ways of involving local people in shaping the future of their neighbourhood in how services are provided. They are often single, multi-agency bodies, which aim to bring together locally the public, private, community and voluntary sectors.

NPPF

Mixed Use Development

National Planning Policy Framework

A well integrated mix of land uses (retail, employment, leisure and other service uses) with decent homes of different types and tenures to support a range of household sizes, ages and incomes.

This document sets out the Government's planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied. It provides a framework within which local and neighbourhood plans can be produced.

NEAP

Neighbourhood Equipped Area for Play

Non-designated Heritage Asset

Characteristics include eight types of equipment and opportunities for ball games or wheeled activities.

A heritage asset that has not been included on any national list.

Open space, sport, and recreational facilities

These are shown in Table 9 of Appendix 4.

Out of centre

Objectively Assessed Need

In retailing terms, a location that is not in or on the edge of a centre but not necessarily outside the urban area.

An assessment of the amount of new housing, jobs, employment land, retail floorspace and other uses that are likely to be needed within the Borough.

Passive House

A passive house (or Passivhaus) uses the principles of high levels of insulation, avoiding all cold bridging, very good air tightness, and maximising solar gains in an attempt to reduce annual heat demands so that mechanical ventilation and heat recovery systems can be utilised for heating homes, rather than conventional heating systems, which can be omitted.

Place shaping

'Place shaping' is the name the government gives to the role that local authorities have in leading their communities, creating prosperity and fostering local identity and civic pride. It involves working with the local public, voluntary, community and private sectors to develop coordinated strategies to tackle the area's problems, needs and ambitions.

Planning Application

An application for permission from the local planning authority to commence building work or change of use of buildings.

Planning Permission

Approval required for the development of land from the local planning authority.

PPG

Planning Policy Guidance Note

Government documents providing policy and guidance on a range of planning issues such as housing, transport, conservation etc. PPGs were being replaced by Planning Policy Statements, which have now been replaced by the National Planning Policy Framework.

PPS

Planning Policy Statement

Policies Map

Government documents that were replacing PPGs and were designed to separate policy from wider guidance issues. These have replaced by the NPPF.

An obligatory component of a local plan showing the location of proposals in the plan on an Ordnance Survey base map for new development plan documents. These were previously referred to as a Proposals Map

PDL

Previously Developed Land

It is land that is or was occupied by a permanent structure, including the curtilage of the developed land and any associated fixed surface infrastructure.

Primary Zone

The Primary zone is a group of shops within the Primary Shopping Area which collectively form the core of the Central Shopping Area. This group is likely to include the highest proportion of retail uses.

Primary Shopping Area

Proposals Map

Defined area where retail development is concentrated, comprising the Primary and Secondary shopping zones.

An obligatory component of a local plan showing the location of proposals in the plan on an Ordnance Survey base map. The Ipswich Local Plan (1997) and the Core Strategy and Policies DPD (2011) both have a Proposals Map. The Government now refers to new Proposals Maps as Policies Maps.

Public examination

The process by which an independent Planning Inspector publicly examines the soundness of a DPD and any representations made against it before issuing a report.

Ramsar Site

Wetlands of global importance, listed under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (signed in Ramsar, Iran).

Regeneration

Renewal, rehabilitation of former derelict or under used sites.

RIGS

Regionally important geological or geomorphological site

Sites identified for their geological or geomorphological interest according to certain criteria. They are protected through the statutory development plan.

Registered Parks and Gardens

Gardens and other land considered to be of special historic interest and included on the Register of Parks and Gardens under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act, 1953. The majority of sites registered are, or were originally, the grounds of private houses, but public parks and cemeteries are also important categories. Sites are graded I, II* or II along the same lines as listed buildings. The Register is held by Historic England and the List Entry details for all parks and gardens can be viewed online on the National Heritage List for England and appear on the Suffolk Historic Environment Record. Registered parks and gardens are identified in the National Planning Policy Framework as designated heritage assets.

Retail Zones

A term given to areas within the Town Centre where shopping is the primary function. The number of shops is used to calculate the percentage of retail uses within the Core Strategy and Policies Review DPD. The exact extent of groups are defined in Appendix 7.

Scheduled Monument

A nationally important historic building or archaeological site that is included in the Schedule of Monuments kept by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and protected under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. Scheduled monuments are identified in the National Planning Policy Framework as designated heritage assets of the highest significance. The Schedule can be viewed online on the National Heritage List for England, physically inspected at the Historic England Archive in Swindon and appear on the Suffolk Historic Environment Record.

SMC

Scheduled Monument Consent

Monument Consent is a legal requirement under Ancient Monument and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (as amended) for any works which might affect a monument either above or below ground level. It is granted by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on advice from Historic England, who administer the SMC application process on behalf of the SoS. The types of works that require SMC are specified under Section 2 of the 1979 Act. SMC is required regardless of whether or not planning permission is needed or has been obtained. It cannot be given retrospectively and undertaking works before consent has been given is a criminal offence. Metal detecting or geophysical survey on a scheduled monument is also illegal without a licence from Historic England.

Secondary Zone

Self-build and Custom-build Housing

Secondary zones are groups of shops within a defined shopping centre (e.g. the Central Shopping Area) where there is more opportunity for a diversity of uses than in the primary zone.

Housing built by an individual, a group of individuals, or persons working with or for them, to be occupied by that individual. Such housing can be either market or affordable housing. A legal definition, for the purpose of applying the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (as amended), is contained in section 1(A1) and (A2) of that Act.

SSSI

Site of Special Scientific Interest

An area of land which, in the opinion of Natural England, is of special interest at a national level due to its flora, fauna or geological or physiographical features.

Soundness

Soundness means founded on a robust and credible evidence base and the most appropriate strategy when considered against the reasonable alternatives. For something to be sound is must also be deliverable, flexible and able to be monitored.

Spatial Planning

Spatial planning goes beyond traditional land use planning to bring together and integrate policies for the development and use of land with other policies and programmes which influence the nature of places and how they function. This will include policies which can impact on land use, for example, by influencing the demands on or needs for development, but which are not capable of being delivered solely or mainly through the granting of planning permission and may be delivered through other means. (PPS 1 ODPM, 2004, pp3).

SAC

Special Area of Conservation

Sites of European importance for nature conservation designated under the Conservation of Natural Habitats and Wild Flora and Fauna Directive.

SPA

Special Protection Area

Sites of European importance for nature conservation designated under the Conservation of Wild Birds Directive.

Specialist Zone

Specialist zones are groups of shops within a defined shopping centre (e.g. where there is the greatest diversity of uses, particularly including food and drink uses, alongside clusters of specialist retailers).

SCI

Statement of Community Involvement

A document which sets out the standards to be achieved in involving the community and other stakeholders in the preparation, alteration and review of local development documents and in significant development management decisions.

SEA

Strategic Environmental Assessment

A strategic environment assessment is a generic term used to describe environmental assessment as applied to policies, plans and programmes. The European SEA directive (2001/42/EC) requires a formal environmental assessment of certain plans and programmes, including those in the field of planning and land use.

SANGs

Suitable Alternative/ Accessible Natural Greenspaces

The name given to greenspace that is of a quality and type suitable to be used as mitigation to offset the impact of new development.

Submission

The stage of preparation of a development plan document covered by Regulation 22 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 It involves submitting a development plan document to the Secretary of State.

SPD

Supplementary Planning Document

A local development document that provides further detail of policies in the development plan documents or of saved local plan policies. They do not have development plan status.

SPG

Supplementary Planning Guidance

Providing additional guidance expanding policies in a local plan. SPGs will remain relevant where they are linked to saved policies but will ultimately be replaced by supplementary planning documents.

SuDS

Sustainable Drainage Systems

A sequence of management practices and control structures designed to drain water in a more sustainable manner than some conventional techniques. Typically these are used to attenuate and treat run-off from development sites.

SA

Sustainability Appraisal

Identifies and evaluates social, environmental and economic effects of strategies and policies in a local development document from the outset of the preparation process. It incorporates the requirements of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directive.

Sustainable Development

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Town Centre Uses

Town Centre uses are defined in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and include retail, leisure, entertainment, intensive sport and recreation, offices, arts, culture and tourism uses.

Tests of Soundness

Travel Plans

Statutory Local Development Documents are subject to an Examination in Public by an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State. The purpose of the Examination is to assess whether the document is 'sound'. This means that those who wish to make a representation seeking a change to the document will need to show how that document is unsound and what needs to be done to make it sound. In order to assess this, the Inspector will assess the document against certain 'Tests of Soundness'. The purpose is to ensure that the whole plan is 'sound' in relation to all the legal and policy criteria it has to meet.

Travel Plans are long term management strategies for integrating proposals for sustainable travel into planning.

Travelling Showpeople

Members of a group organised for the purposes of holding fairs, circuses or shows (whether or not travelling together as such). This includes such persons who on the grounds of their own or their family's or dependants' more localised pattern of trading, educational or health needs or old age have ceased to travel temporarily, but excludes Gypsies and Travellers as defined above

Urban fringe

Predominantly open land on the edge of an existing urban area.

Use Classes Order

The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 and subsequent amendments.

Uses are defined as follows:

A1 Shops

A2 Financial and Professional Services

A3 Restaurants and cafes

A4 Drinking establishments

A5 Hot food takeaways

B1 Business (Offices (other than those that fall within A2), research and development of products and processes, light industry)

B2 General industrial

B8 Storage or distribution

C1 Hotels

C2 Residential Institutions

C2A Secure Residential Institutions

C3 Dwellinghouses

C4 Houses in multiple occupation

D1 Non-residential institutions

D2 Assembly and Leisure

Sui generis - uses not covered by the above including theatres, petrol filling stations, amusement centres, launderettes and taxi businesses.