Local Plan 2034 PUBLICATION VERSION South Oxfordshire District Council 242 South Oxfordshire District Council Local Plan 2034 PUBLICATION VERSION Appendix 1 Glossary Access to Natural Greenspace Standard (ANGSt) need not be a registered provider); and (c) it ANGSt is a tool in assessing current levels of accessible includes provisions to remain at an affordable price natural greenspace, and planning for better provision. for future eligible households, or for the subsidy The three underlying principles of ANGSt are: to be recycled for alternative affordable housing a) Improving access to greenspaces provision. For Build to Rent schemes affordable b) Improving naturalness of greenspaces housing for rent is expected to be the normal c) Improving connectivity with greenspaces form of affordable housing provision (and, in this ANGST sets a maximum recommended standard context, is known as Affordable Private Rent). on walking distance people should have to travel b) Starter homes: is as specified in Sections 2 and 3 to have access to accessible natural greenspace. of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and any For more information see “Nature Nearby” secondary legislation made under these sections. publication from Natural England, available online The definition of a starter home should eflectr the at: http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/ meaning set out in statute and any such secondary publication/40004 legislation at the time of plan-preparation or For more information please visit: decision-making. Where secondary legislation has www.naturalengland.org.uk/ the effect of limiting a household’s eligibility to regions/east_of_england/ourwork/gi/ purchase a starter home to those with a particular accessiblenaturalgreenspacestandardangst.aspx maximum level of household income, those restrictions should be used. Adopted Policies Map c) Discounted market sales housing: is that sold at A map of the local planning authority’s area which a discount of at least 20% below local market must be reproduced from, or based on, an Ordnance value. Eligibility is determined with regard to local Survey map; include an explanation of any symbol or incomes and local house prices. Provisions should notation which it uses; and illustrate geographically the be in place to ensure housing remains at a discount application of the policies in the adopted development for future eligible households. plan. Where the adopted policies map consists of text d) Other affordable routes to home ownership: is and maps, the text prevails if the map and text conflict. housing provided for sale that provides a route to ownership for those who could not achieve home Adoption ownership through the market. It includes shared Formal approval by the Council of a DPD or SPD where ownership, relevant equity loans, other low cost upon it achieves its full weight in making planning homes for sale (at a price equivalent to at least decisions. 20% below local market value) and rent to buy (which includes a period of intermediate rent). Affordable Housing Where public grant funding is provided, there Affordable housing: housing for sale or rent, for those should be provisions for the homes to remain at whose needs are not met by the market (including an affordable price for future eligible households, housing that provides a subsidised route to home or for any receipts to be recycled for alternative ownership and/or is for essential local workers); and affordable housing provision, or refunded to which complies with one or more of the following Government or the relevant authority specified in definitions: the funding agreement. a) Affordable housing for rent: meets all of the following conditions: (a) the rent is set in Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) accordance with the Government’s rent policy for Areas designated by local authorities because they are Social Rent or Affordable Rent, or is at least 20% not likely to achieve national air quality objectives by below local market rents (including service charges the relevant deadlines. where applicable); (b) the landlord is a registered provider, except where it is included as part of a Build to Rent scheme (in which case the landlord 243 Local Plan 2034 PUBLICATION VERSION South Oxfordshire District Council Ancient Monument Biodiversity Any scheduled monument, or any other monument, Biodiversity is seen as the total complexity of all life, which in the opinion of the Secretary of State, is of including not only the great variety of organisms, but public interest by reason of the historic, architectural, also their varying behaviour and interactions. artistic or archaeological interest attributed to it. Building Research Establishment Environment Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) Assessment Method (BREEAM) A report produced at least annually assessing: progress A widely used environmental assessment method with the preparation of the local plan and other for buildings. BREEAM assesses buildings against set policy documents against the timetable published in criteria for sustainable building design, construction the Local Development Scheme, and the extent to and operation, and provides an overall score. which adopted plan policies are being successfully implemented. Burgage Plots Long, narrow plots, laid out at right angles to the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) street frontage, with the rear often accessed by a back A national designation to conserve and enhance the lane. Burgage plots were generally laid out in blocks, natural beauty of the landscape. The AONBs in South as acts of medieval town planning, comprising plots Oxfordshire District Council are the North Wessex of often uniform width (sometimes 6 metres). A main Downs and the Chilterns. building, generally shops or houses, occupied the frontage, with the rear containing ancillary buildings, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management and open space which was often used for digging cess Plan pits and rubbish pits. The boundaries between plots The Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management may now be marked by high stone or brick walls, and Plans for the Chilterns and the North Wessex in some cases, much or even all of the open space may Downs contain comprehensive summaries of the now have been built on. Their regular width sets the key issues facing the areas and the management rhythm of the street, within which buildings of various policies and actions needed to conserve the areas. dates and styles provide variety. Remaining open land For more information on the plans, please visit at the rear provides an important haven for wildlife and www.chilternsaonb.org/conservation-board/ acts as a ‘green lung’ in otherwise densely developed management-plan or www.northwessexdowns. and populated areas. org.uk/About-us/aonb-management-plan.html Carbon Compliance B1, B2, B8 use classes The overall onsite contribution to zero carbon. Business uses as defined in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987. Chalk streams - B1 covers offices, research and development and light There are around 224 known chalk streams in industrial. England, which constitutes over 85% of the total - B2 covers general industrial. world resource. As a result chalk rivers have been - B8 covers storage or distribution. specifically identified as a priority for conservation under Section 41 of the Natural Environment and Rural Better Broadband for Oxfordshire Project Communities Act (2006) (s41 Natural Environment Better Broadband for Oxfordshire is a £25m project and Rural Communities Act 2006, available at: www. to bring fibre broadband to over 90% of homes and legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/contents). In businesses in the county. It’s a collaboration between South Oxfordshire they are generally fed from aquifers Oxfordshire County Council, the Government (through in the chalk rocks of the Chiltern Hills, the water is BDUK) and BT that will boost the local economy by characterised as having high clarity and quality, with creating and protecting jobs. For more information a stable temperature regime. It is the quality of the please visit: www.betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org. water as well as the in stream and bankside habitats uk/home that make chalk streams so important for a variety of rare and protected species. Chalk streams in the 244 South Oxfordshire District Council Local Plan 2034 PUBLICATION VERSION district arise from the escarpment of the Chiltern Hills, Conservation Area examples include the Ewelme Brook and the Chalgrove An area designated by the district council under Brook. It is estimated that only around a quarter of Section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Britain’s chalk streams are achieving good ecological Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as an area of special status under the Water Framework Directive (World architectural or historical interest, the character or Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2015) The State of England’s appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or Chalk Streams), available at: http://assets.wwf.org. enhance. There are additional controls over demolition, uk/downloads/wwf_chalkstreamreport_jan15_ minor developments and the felling of trees. forweb.pdf Conservation Target Areas (CTA) Climate Change Adaptation and mitigation These are county-wide important areas of landscape Climate change adaptation: Adjustments to natural that present the best opportunities for prioritising or human systems in response to actual or expected the conservation, enhancement and re-creation of climatic factors or their effects, including from changes