Glossary
- Economic impact reports
- A report on the economic impact of a new road. Road schemes are often promoted on the basis that they will aid the regeneration of an area by attracting new businesses and creating new jobs. An economic impact report should demonstrate whether or not the proposed scheme will create these new jobs and who will benefit and to what extent. The report should also look at any negative economic impacts.
- Enforcement
- The enforcement of planning control. Local planning authorities should ensure that the terms and conditions of planning decisions are carried out and that development carried out without planning permission is brought under control. However, there is no statutory duty on local planning authorities to enforce controls and the degree to which they do varies according to political committment and the resources they devote to it.
- Enforcement notice
- A notice requiring cessation (and sometimes reversal) of unauthorised use and/or development begun without permission or in breach of a condition.
- Environmental authority
- The statutory bodies set up by Government with direct environmental responsibilities. In England, these are the Countryside Agency, English Nature, English Heritage and the Environment Agency.
- Environmental impact assessment
- The assessment identifies and assesses the likely effects on the environment of a project, at the earliest possible opportunity, before a decision is made on whether to give consent to proceed with it. Under the Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988, an assessment is required to accompany planning applications for developments that are likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue of their nature, size or location
- Evidence base
- The information gathered by a planning authority to support the preparation of development documents. It includes quantitative (numerical values) and qualitative (feelings and opinions) data
- Examination in public
- The method of considering public views on a draft regional or local development plan or proposed changes to it.