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Call-In: Scottish Ministers may call-in planning applications for their own determination in certain specified circumstances, particularly if they are of a scale that warrants assessment against structure plan or regional policies and/or would have a potentially harmful impact on existing areas, centres or facilities. Those relating to retail development are: proposals of over 10,000 m2 gross retail floorspace; proposals liable to draw trade from the area of an adjoining authority, where that authority has objected; proposals in which the planning authority has a financial interest; and proposals involving significant departures from the approved Structure Plan or any other local plan approved by the Scottish Ministers under Section 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (see also ‘notification’).

Campus Plans: Development plans prepared by a university, college or hospital that set out in a statement and identifies on a map their development programmes over a period of approximately ten years and aspirations over a longer time period. The scope for each campus plan should be discussed with the Council prior to its preparation.

Catchment (Area): Area or areas from which a centre or retail development draws all or a substantial part of its trade.

Centre: Collective term for the City Centre, major town centres, town centres and local centres (i.e. tiers 1-4 inclusive of the hierarchy of centres). Equates to the definition of town centre in National Planning Policy Guideline 8: Town Centres and Retailing (NPPG8).

Centre Action Plan: The Plan proposes that a non-statutory action plan be prepared for each centre in tiers 2-4 of the hierarchy of centres, bringing forward proposals for the improvement and management of the centre. An initial programme of plan preparation is put forward, covering 11 centres.

Centre Map: Part 2 of the Plan contains a series of centre maps, one for each centre included in tiers 1-4 inclusive of the hierarchy of centres. These define the total extent of the centre, as well as related designations such as principal retail areas and edge-of-centre areas. The maps will be used to determine the sequential status of any site.

City Centre: Area bounded by the River Clyde, M8 Motorway, and Glasgow Cathedral/Wishart Street/John Knox Street/High Street/Saltmarket; within which is located the West of Scotland’s principal retail and office areas and is designated as tier 1 of the City’s hierarchy of centres.

City Centre Partnership: Established in 1999 by the Council, in association with Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, the Chamber of Commerce and the private sector. The Partnership aims to further enhance the City Centre’s competitiveness through improved management, marketing and maintenance.

City Web: The upper levels of the City’s road hierarchy from which views and impressions of the City are formed and which, together with its nodes and focal points, gives structure to the urban environment. For the purpose of the Urban Design Strategy, the City Web comprises the ‘A’ and ‘B’ classified routes, important historic entry routes into the City Centre, and important local connections. These are highlighted on the Built Form Map.

Commercial: The development policy principle (DEV 5: Commercial) covering areas outwith centres whose principal activities are retail and commercial leisure. These areas correspond to other retail and commercial locations as set out in Part B of the City’s hierarchy of centres (policy SC 1, schedule SC(i)), and in a few cases to retail developments on the edges of existing centres.

Commercial Leisure Development: Defined by National Planning Policy Guideline 8: Town Centres and Retailing (NPPG8) as developments that need to be accessible to a large number of people, such as multi-screen cinemas and bowling alleys.

Communities Scotland’s Grants for Rental and Owner Occupation (GRO): Funding provided to private house builders to assist in the development of owner-occupied housing at economic levels.

Communities Scotland’s Housing Association Grant for Low Cost Home Ownership: Funding provided to Housing Associations and Co-operatives for the purposes of developing shared ownership housing at economic levels.

Comparison Goods: Goods that tend to be purchased at infrequent intervals, whereby purchasers will ‘compare’ similar products on the basis of price and quality before making a purchase. Includes, for example, clothing, household goods, leisure goods and personal goods. Sometimes termed ‘durable’ or ‘non-food’ goods.

Confirmed Marketable Industrial and Business Land: Industrial and business sites with no servicing problems, in good locations, that are considered readily available and marketable.

Conservation Area: An area identified as being of special architectural or historic interest, the character of which is desirable to preserve and enhance. Additional controls over development are provided to the local authority in conservation areas. These include advertising, demolition and the protection of trees. New development will normally only be granted planning permission if it can be demonstrated that it will not harm the character or appearance of the area. See Article 4 Direction.

Conservation Area Appraisals: A study defining the key elements that contribute to the special character of an existing conservation area or an area under consideration for such status. Appraisals can assist in defining conservation area boundaries and future enhancement works.

Controlled Parking Zones: An area within which on-road parking control and/or parking charges are applied.

Convenience Goods: Goods that tend to be purchased frequently and/or regularly. Commonly taken to consist of foodstuffs and food products, but also includes day-to-day purchases such as cigarettes or newspapers. Excludes food and drink for consumption on the premises and hot food for consumption off the premises.

Cumulative Impact: Combined effect, in terms of projected trade loss, on a given centre of two or more recently-completed or proposed retail developments within or affecting that centre’s catchment.

Curtilage: A piece of ground attached to a building and forming one enclosure with it. In relation to listed buildings any structure erected before 1 July 1948 within such a curtilage should be treated as part of the listed building even if it is not individually listed or mentioned in the list description.