Glossary
- Permitted development rights
- Rights to carry out certain limited forms of development without the need to make an application for planning permission, as granted under the terms of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995.
- Plan-led system
- The 'plan-led system' is one of the fundamental principles that guides how planning works. The meaning comes from Section 54a of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which states that decisions made under any of the planning acts 'shall be made in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise'. This duty has been reiterated in Section 38 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, which replaces Section 54a. This means that regional and local development plans for a given area are the most important factors to be taken into account when making a decision on a planning application.
- Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
- The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 is the latest piece of planning legislation. It amends much of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. In particular, the 2004 act has made major changes to the system of development plans and introduced sustainable development, as defined by Government policy, as an objective of the planning system.
- Planning control
- See development control.
- Planning gain
- The principle of a planning applicant agreeing to provide additional benefits or safeguards, often for the benefit of the community, usually in the form of related development. See also planning obligations and agreements and section 106 agreements.
- Planning Inspectorate
- The Planning Inspectorate is an independent Government agency that processes planning and enforcement appeals and holds inquiries into local development plans. It also deals with a wide variety of other planning-related casework, including listed building consent appeals, advertisement appeals and reporting on planning applications.
- Planning obligations and agreements
- Legal agreements between a planning authority and a developer, or offered unilaterally by a developer, which ensure that certain extra works related to a development are undertaken. These would usually happen under section 46 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.
- Planning policy guidance note
- See Government planning policy.
- PPG
- See Government planning policy
- PPS
- See Government planning policy
- Previously developed land
- See brownfield
- Principal urban area
- A term frequently used in regional planning guidance, regional spatial strategies and structure plans to describe the largest urban settlements within the areas covered by the guidance or plan.
- Proof of evidence
- The written account of the evidence a witness intends to put before the inspector at a planning appeal.
- Proposals map
- An obligatory part of a local plan or local development framework which shows the whole area covered by the plan, which parts of it particular policies relate to and the site-specific allocations and location of proposals.
- Public inquiry
- A general term, sometimes loosely used to mean any hearing on a planning appeal or local plan, but also more specifically to refer to an inquiry on a major development proposal, such as a new port, which has been called in by the secretary of state for his own decison. See also local inquiry, local plan inquiry and public local inquiry.
- Public local inquiry
- Term sometimes used to refer to hearings held by the Planning Inspectorate on things such as planning appeals and disputes over rights of way. See also public inquiry