Lilestone Brief.pdf - Westminster City Council

Non‐A1 retail usesOpen spacePTALPermitteddevelopmentPlanning obligationPlanningpermissionPlanning PolicyGuidance andPlanning PolicyStatementsRegistered SocialLandlordComprises A2 Financial or professional services, A3 Restaurants andcafés, A4 Drinking establishments (not nightclubs), A5 Hot foodtakeaways in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (UseClasses) Order 1987 and its subsequent amendments.Includes all parks and gardens, regardless of size (whether public orprivate); the River Thames and the canals and their towpaths; civicspaces; children’s playgrounds, including school playgrounds; ballcourts and other outdoor sports facilities; amenity green spaces,such as open spaces on housing estates; churchyards; andcommunity gardens.Public Transport Accessibility Level – a method used to assess theaccess level of sites to public transport.Development which is granted planning permission under the termsof the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)Order 1995 (as amended)(GPDO). This includes, for example, manychanges of use such as a change from a restaurant (A3 Use Class) toa shop (A1 Use Class) as set out in the GPDO.An enforceable compact associated with the use and development ofland. This may be either an agreement between a local planningauthority and an organisation or individual having an interest in land;or a unilateral undertaking given by an applicant for planningpermission. An obligation usually involves a restriction on the use ordevelopment of land; or a specific requirement about an operationor activity to be carried out on land; or a requirement that landshould only be used in a specified way; or the payment of a sum orsums of money.A written consent to the carrying out of “Development” issued by alocal planning authority or, on appeal, by a Planning Inspector or theSecretary of State. The permission is normally subject to conditionsand will lapse if the development is not started within a statedperiod of time. Planning permission for buildings may be in outlinewhere the principle is approved, subject to the later submission offurther applications for the approval of reserved matters.Publication issued by the Government department responsible forplanning, setting out the principles to be taken into account by localplanning authorities when exercising their planning functions.Organisation registered with the Housing Corporation under theprovisions in Chapter 1 of the Housing Act 1996. The organisationsconcerned may be housing associations which are registeredcharities, or non‐profit making provident societies or companies.They must provide housing kept available for letting, and meet otherrequirements set out in the Act.39