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Fuel poverty: fuel poverty means spending more than 10% of a household’s income
on simply keeping warm and providing basic hot water and lighting.
Green roofs: green roofs are vegetated layers that sit on top of the conventional roof
surfaces of a building, which can support a wide range of plant life. Green roofs can
create, or improve, biodiversity, contribute to minimising flood risk, improve thermal
efficiency and improve the microclimate.
Green infrastructure: a network of connected, high quality, multi-functional open
spaces, corridors and the links in between that provide multiple benefits for people
and wildlife.
Green performance plan: A plan for the operation of the building, detailing measurable
outputs for the occupied building, particularly for energy consumption, CO 2
emissions
and water use, and setting out arrangements for monitoring the progress of the plan
over the first years of occupancy, as well as the arrangements for enforcement in the
event that agreed objectives are not met.
Green procurement plan: A plan detailing how construction materials have been
selected to minimise environmental impacts over their life cycle.
Grey-water recycling: Grey-water refers to waste water from showers, baths and
washbasins (it does not include the more contaminated water from kitchen sinks and
washing machines). As long as drinking water quality is not required, this water can
be treated and re-used, e.g. for flushing toilets, watering gardens and for washing
machines.
Gross Internal Area (GIA) : the area of a building measured to the internal face of
the perimeter walls at each floor level. The GIA includes includes floor area of habitable
and non-habitable rooms plus circulation, plus area taken up by internal partitions. It
does not include the area of external private amenity space.
Gyratory: A type of road junction at which traffic enters a one-way stream around a
central island.
Habitable room: Habitable rooms provide the living accommodation of the dwelling.
They include living room, dining room, study, home office, conservatoroy, bedroom
etc. They exclude the bathroom, WC, utility room, storeroom and circulation space.
Health Impact Assessment (HIA): Health Impact Assessments consider the potential
impacts of planning policies and decisions on health and health inequalities. They
identify actions that can enhance the positive effects, and mitigate, or eliminate, the
negative effects of developments.
Heritage assets: A building, monument, site, place, area or landscape positively
identified as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning
decisions. Heritage assets are the valued components of the historic environment.
They include designated heritage assets and assets identified by the local planning
authority during the process of decision-making or through the plan-making process
(including local listing). A heritage asset holds meaning for society over and above
its functional utility. It is this heritage significance that justifies a degree of protection
in planning decisions
Historic Parks and Gardens: Registered parks and gardens are designated by
English Heritage under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 for
their special historic interest.
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