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E-tailing: The retail sale of goods and services using interactive information technology, in particular the Internet, without requiring the purchaser to be present at a shop or other retailing location.

Edge-of-Centre: Defined by National Planning Policy Guideline 8: Town Centres and Retailing (NPPG8) as a location within easy walking distance of the town centre, and usually adjacent to it, and providing parking facilities that serve the centre as well as the [proposed] store, thus enabling one trip to serve several purposes. In this Plan, particular circumstances will be taken into account, but sites more than 100 m from the centre’s boundary, or separated from it by a pronounced physical barrier, are unlikely to be regarded as edge-of-centre unless it can be demonstrated that they are capable of being effectively integrated as part of an enlarged centre. Within the City Centre, two specific edge-of-centre areas are defined (see Centres Map C1/CC).

Effective Land Supply: The part of the established land supply that is free or expected to be free of constraints in the seven year period under consideration, and will therefore be available for the construction of houses.

Enclosure: The use of buildings to create a sense of defined space.

Environmental Areas: Defined as urban rooms with high quality safe environment where people live, work, shop, play, look about and move around on foot. They require the provision of traffic calming and a 20mph speed limit.

Environmental Impact Assessment: An assessment that is required in certain circumstances to identify the environmental affects (both positive and negative) of development proposals and that should aim to prevent, reduce and offset any adverse environmental impacts. Part 2 of the Plan contains a Supplementary Guide (SG 1: Environmental Impact Assessments) that provides details of the necessary requirements.

Environmental Policy Designation: Environmental policy designations cover the built and natural heritage of Glasgow. These areas are important because of their environmental quality, biological diversity and/or their historic, architectural or archaeological significance and contribute positively to the quality of the environment, image and diversity of the City.

Established Land Supply: All sites, with a capacity of four or more dwellings, collectively make up the established land supply (ELS). The ELS comprises the residual balance of sites under construction, sites with planning consent, sites that are being promoted for housing by the Council and other land and buildings that are recognised as having potential for housing development.

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF): The fund provides both revenue and capital funding in support of productive investment, infrastructure and small and medium sized enterprise developments.

European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP): The spatial approach seeks to define territorial balances between competition and co-operation with the aim of enhancing economic and social cohesion and sustained development within a European context.

Expenditure Flow: Identifiable trend whereby residents of one area regularly do a major part of their spending in another area. Net expenditure flows occur where the flow in one direction significantly exceeds that in the opposite direction. Significant outflow from an area is sometimes termed leakage.