In this Order—

• “the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;

• “the 2010 Order” means the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 20103;

• “access”, in relation to reserved matters, means the accessibility to and within the site, for vehicles, cycles and pedestrians in terms of the positioning and treatment of access and circulation routes and how these fit into the surrounding access network; where “site” means the site or part of the site in respect of which outline planning permission is granted or, as the case may be, in respect of which an application for such a permission has been made;

• “appearance” means the aspects of a building or place within the development which determine the visual impression the building or place makes, including the external built form of the development, its architecture, materials, decoration, lighting, colour and texture;

• “building” includes any structure or erection, and any part of a building, as defined in this article, but does not include plant or machinery or any structure in the nature of plant or machinery;

• “county planning authority” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the 1990 Act;

• “designated planning authority” means the local planning authority to which an application would otherwise have been made had the applicant not chosen to make the relevant application4 to the Secretary of State under section 62A of the 1990 Act;

• “district planning authority” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the 1990 Act;

• “electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 20005;

• “EIA development”, “environmental information” and “environmental statement” have the same meanings respectively as in regulation 2(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 20116;

• “erection”, in relation to buildings as defined in this article, includes extension, alteration or re-erection;

• “landscaping”, in relation to a site or any part of a site for which outline planning permission has been granted or, as the case may be, in respect of which an application for such permission has been made, means the treatment of land (other than buildings) for the purpose of enhancing or protecting the amenities of the site and the area in which it is situated and includes—

  1. a

     screening by fences, walls or other means;

  2. b

     the planting of trees, hedges, shrubs or grass;

  3. c

     the formation of banks, terraces or other earthworks;

  4. d

     the laying out or provision of gardens, courts, squares, water features, sculpture or public art; and

  5. e

     the provision of other amenity features;

• “layout” means the way in which buildings, routes and open spaces within the development are provided, situated and orientated in relation to each other and to buildings and spaces outside the development;

• “local planning register authority” has the meaning given in article 36 of the 2010 Order;

• “mining operations” means the winning and working of minerals in, on or under land, whether by surface or underground working;

• “outline planning permission” means a planning permission for the erection of a building, which is granted subject to a condition requiring the subsequent approval with respect to one or more reserved matters;

• “questionnaire” means a document in the form supplied by the Secretary of State; and for this purpose a form is taken to be supplied where the Secretary of State has published it on a website and has notified the designated planning authority of—

  1. a

     publication of the form on the website, and

  2. b

     the place on the website where the form may be accessed;

• “representation period” means the period referred to in articles 17(4), 18(1) or 23(4) and where more than one period applies in relation to a relevant application, the later or latest of those periods to end;

• “reserved matters” in relation to an outline planning permission, or an application for such permission, means any of the following matters in respect of which details have not been given in the application—

  1. a

     access;

  2. b

     appearance;

  3. c

     landscaping;

  4. d

     layout; and

  5. e

     scale;

• “scale” means the height, width and length of each building proposed within the development in relation to its surroundings;

• “waste development” means any operational development designed to be used wholly or mainly for the purpose of, or material change of use to, treating, storing, processing or disposing of refuse or waste materials; and

• “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday or other public holiday.