Local Development Plan

perform a number of roles:
• An economic role. Contributing to building a strong, responsive
and competitive economy, by ensuring that sufficient land of the
right type is available in the right places and at the right time to
support growth and innovation;
• A social role. Supporting strong, vibrant and healthy communities,
by providing the supply of housing required to meet the needs of
present and future generations;
• An environmental role. Contributing to protecting and enhancing
our natural, built and historic environment.
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)
SUDS are a sequence of water management practices that seek to
alleviate the problems associated with hard and paved surfaces in urban
environments, by storing or re-using surface water at source, thereby
decreasing flow rates to watercourses and improving water quality.
Travellers
A generic group as defined by the Race Relations (NI) Order 1997 i.e.
“having a shared history, culture and traditions, including a nomadic way
of life.”
Tree Preservation Order (TPO)
The Council has a duty to protect trees under Section 122 of the Planning
Act (Northern Ireland) 2011. Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) are
designated to trees (either singularly or in a group) which are of high
amenity or historic value or, for its rarity.
Urban Capacity Study
An Urban Capacity Study assesses the supply of land and buildings that
may be available to accommodate new housing development. They are a
valuable tool in facilitating sustainable development by identifying land
and buildings within an area that might be reused for housing purposes
and to form the basis for choosing new housing sites and the
management of their release through the local development plan.
Urban Footprint
This is defined as the continuous built-up area of a settlement. Urban
footprints have been identified and set as the baseline of January 2001.
The boundary is represented by an uninterrupted line, often lying inside
the planned settlement limit. It contains land that has a formal urban use
and, for example, gardens on the edge of the settlement will be included
within the urban area as they form part of a curtilage of a building.
Undeveloped zoned land at the edge of the settlement is excluded.
Urban Landscape Wedges
Urban Landscape Wedges are open areas that are designated to separate
localities within the Metropolitan Urban Area. They have a significant role
in helping to define and retain the identities and character of the
component parts of the urban area and preventing the merging of
different city communities.
Urban Regeneration
Urban regeneration, also known as urban renewal or renaissance, is a
program of land or building redevelopment in areas of medium to highdensity
urban land use. It includes a focus on significant physical,
economic, community and social interventions within a designated area.
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