Terms shown in bold are defined elsewhere in the glossary.

Adoption – The final confirmation of a Local Development Plan

Affordable housing – Housing, whether for rent, shared ownership or outright purchase, provided at a cost considered affordable in relation to incomes that are average or below average, or in relation to the price of general market housing.

Allocation – Land which will be proposed for development, which will be identified in a Proposals Map in the deposit and the adopted versions of the Local Development Plan.

Annual Monitoring Report – A report that will assess progress with and the effectiveness of the Local Development Plan when it has been adopted. It will include for example, the total number of dwellings and the number of affordable dwellings.

Community Strategy – Local authorities are required under the Local Government Act 2000 to prepare these, with the aim of improving the social, environmental and economic well being of their areas. In Conwy, the responsibility for preparing the Community Strategy rests with the Conwy Local Strategy Partnership.

Commuting – in the context of this paper, commuting refers to journeys to work that cross local authority boundaries. Outward commuting refers to journeys by residents of Conwy County Borough to work in other areas, whilst inward commuting refers to journeys by residents of other areas to work in Conwy County Borough.

County Borough – This refers to the whole area for which Conwy County Borough Council is the unitary authority, including that part of the Council’s area that lies within the Snowdonia National Park.

Deposit Plan – A formal stage during which organisations and individuals can make representations on the detailed policies and proposals.

Development plans – are plans that indicate the type, location and scale of future development, and which areas need to be protected from inappropriate development. Decisions on planning applications must follow the development plan, unless there are good planning reasons. See also Local Plan, Local Development Plan, Structure Plan and Unitary Development Plan.

Dwelling – comprises all permanent, self-contained accommodation, including houses and flats, and which can be provided either on green-field sites or by conversions or redevelopment on previously used land.

Employment Land / Site - Land that typically forms part of an industrial estate or business park, exceeding 1 hectare in area, which is occupied by one or more of the following: offices, manufacturing, research and development, storage or distribution.

In-migration – Residents who move from outside the Plan Area to within the Plan Area.

Key diagram – A diagrammatic representation of the areas of the main areas of growth in the Plan Area, and the areas to be protected from development. Key Diagram 1 shows the main settlements and the more significant areas to be protected. Key Diagram 2 illustrates the number of dwellings in each Plan Sub- Area.

Local Plan – an ‘old style’ development plan, which provides local detail to a structure plan.

Local Development Plan (the Plan) – the required statutory development plan for each local planning authority in Wales under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

Local planning authority – The body that is responsible for planning decisions in its area. Conwy County Borough Council is the local planning authority for the plan area.

Main settlement – A town or village which has one of more community facilities, and which are shown on the key diagram.

Minor settlement – A smaller village or hamlet, which will be identified in the deposit version of the Local Development Plan.

Plan Area – The County Borough of Conwy, excluding that part that is within the Snowdonia National Park.

Plan Sub-Area – Areas that form part of the Plan Area, that share similar geographical characteristics.

Preferred Option – An option that has been selected to form the basis of the Preferred Strategy.

Preferred Strategy – The Preferred Strategy provides the context for the policies and proposals that will form part of the Deposit Plan.

Previously used land – Land which is or was occupied by a permanent structure and associated fixed surface infrastructure. It includes areas around buildings such as gardens, but not parks, agricultural or forestry buildings or land on which the remains of buildings have blended into the landscape over time. There is a fuller definition of previously used land in Figure 2.1 of the Welsh Assembly Government’s document ‘Planning Policy Wales’.

Settlements – see main settlements and minor settlements

Structure Plan – An old-style development plan, which sets out the strategic planning policies and forms the basis for detailed policies in local plans. These plans will continue to operate until the Local Development Plan is adopted.

Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) – Guidance on policy issues in a form that is more detailed than what would be appropriate in a development plan. SPG must relate to development plan policies, and are relevant in deciding on planning applications.

Sustainable development – Development which meets present needs whilst striving equally to allow for those of future generations.

Sustainability Appraisal – Tool for appraising policies to ensure that they reflect sustainable development objectives (that is, economic, environmental and social factors).

Spatial Option – An option that indicates, in very broad terms, the distribution of development (in particular, housing development) between the Plan Sub-Areas (see definition above).

Unitary Development Plan – A development plan that combines the strategic policies and local policies in one document. The draft Conwy Unitary Development Plan will eventually be replaced by the Local Development Plan.

Wales Spatial Plan – A plan prepared and approved by the National Assembly for Wales, which sets out a strategic framework to guide future development and policy interventions, whether or not these relate to formal planning control. Under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, a local planning authority must have regard to this plan in preparing an LDP.

Waste management facilities – Facilities for storing, sorting and treating waste. They include, for example, Household Recycling Centres, waste transfer stations, composting facilities and various methods of recovering energy.

Windfall sites – A site not specifically allocated for development in a development plan, but which unexpectedly becomes available during the lifetime of a plan.