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Habitable Rooms: Habitable rooms are defined as rooms designed for living, eating and sleeping and include living rooms, dining rooms, conservatories, bedrooms and studies.

Health Checks: Indicators that can be used to provide an effective insight into the performance of a centre and so offer a framework for assessing its vitality and viability.

Hierarchy of Centres: Classification of centres and other retail/commercial locations adopted for this Plan, as set out in Part A of schedule SC(i); comprises four tiers as follows:

High Accessibility: A measure of public transport accessibility, that indicates the provision of a high standard of service (see Supplementary Guide 6: Public Transport Accessibility Zones (SG6) for criteria).

High-Rise Development: These are defined as developments that significantly exceed the general building heights of their surroundings, including roof top structures.

Home Zones: These give pedestrians priority over vehicles through signage, traffic calming and altered streetscape. The speed limit is reduced to 10mph.

Housing Market Areas: These are areas within which households are willing to move to buy a house (excluding moves that are employment - or retirement - led) and are used to reflect mobility of demand across the conurbation. They are relatively self-contained , and are the areas within which owner-occupied housing demand and supply shall be assessed.

Human Scale: The scale of a building, space or settlement that makes humans feel comfortable rather than overwhelmed. Related to the degree of enclosure or the proportion of buildings and their fenestration, or elements within a development, against the human body.