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Appendix
97
Glossary
A full range of definitions
is provided by The
dictionary of urbanism
www.urbanwords.info
Area action plans
are development plan
documents that provide a
planning framework for an
area of significant change
or conservation.
Biotope is an area
of relatively uniform
environmental conditions,
occupied by a particular
plant community and its
associated fauna.
Design codes set out
and illustrate with some
precision how design
and planning principles
should be applied to
development and the
structure of its public
and green spaces in a
particular place.
A design code may be
included as part of an
urban design framework,
a development brief or
a masterplan when a
degree of prescription
is appropriate.
Development briefs
provide guidance on how
a specific site of significant
size or sensitivity should
be developed in line with
the relevant planning
and design policies, and
in particular how green
space can help to make
the most of the specific
site. The brief will usually
contain some indicative,
but flexible vision of future
development form.
Development plan
documents are spatial
planning documents
subject to independent
examination.
Green space strategies
are cross-cutting
documents that set out
the current condition of
a local authority’s stock
of green spaces and its
vision for the future. They
identify the resources,
responsibilities and
timescales needed to
make this vision a reality.
Green space
management plans
are documents that are
produced for each park or
green space. They identify
the current condition, a
vision, an action plan with
funding and resources,
and a monitoring process.
Local biodiversity
action plans (LBAPs)
are the mechanisms by
which local areas will
secure the targets set
out in the UK Biodiversity
Action Plan. They provide
information on habitats
and species, including
those at risk. Guidance on
LBAPs can be obtained
from the UK Biodiversity
Partnership.
www.ukbap.org.uk
Local development
documents are
statutory development
plan documents or nonstatutory
supplementary
planning documents
contained in a local
development framework.
Local development
frameworks are
portfolios of local
development documents
that together provide a
framework for delivering
the spatial planning
strategy for an area.
Masterplans chart the
masterplanning process
and explain how a site
or a series of sites will be
developed (although the
term is often applied more
generally to any form of
design guidance).
The masterplan will
describe how the proposal
and its green spaces will
be implemented, and
it will set out the costs,
phasing and timing of
development.
Public realm strategies
provide guidance on all
the public space – green,
hard or street – in an area
or district. They deal with
matters under the control
of a wide range of different
organisations, with a
multitude of different longterm
objectives. Such a
strategy may be the key
to providing a framework
in which green spaces
can be integrated into
their urban setting.
Supplementary
planning documents
are pieces of guidance
supplementing the
policies and proposals
in development plan
documents.
Urban design
frameworks illustrate
how planning and design
policies and principles
should be implemented
in areas where there is
a need to control, guide
and promote change. This
includes urban quarters,
transport corridors,
regeneration areas and
town centres. An urban
design framework will set
out the basic structure
of green and other open
spaces, and may be
used to co-ordinate more
detailed development
briefs and masterplans.