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Scale: Scale can be applied to architectural elements and compositions as well as to built forms and entire settlements.

Scottish Enterprise Glasgow’s Brownfield Sites for Housing Initiative (BSHI): Funding provided to private and public sector agencies to support the treatment of derelict, contaminated or minerally unstable sites for housing development.

Secondary Retail Area: The part of the defined area of a centre outwith the principal retail area.

Section 75 Agreement: Defined by the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, an agreement that can be made between a local planning authority and a developer to regulate development or the use of land. Such an agreement is entered in the Land Register of Scotland and can be enforced against the successors in title.

Sequential Approach: As set out in National Planning Policy Guideline 8: Town Centres and Retailing (NPPG8), a procedural requirement placed upon planning authorities and developers in selecting sites for new retail and commercial leisure developments and other key town centre uses. It requires parties to demonstrate that first preference be given to town centre sites, followed by edge-of-centre sites, and only then by out-of-centre sites in locations that are, or can be made, easily accessible by a choice of means of transport. In this Plan the sequential approach is set out in policies SC 2:The Sequential Approach for Retail and Commercial Leisure Developments and CC/SC 1: The Sequential Approach to Retail, Leisure and Entertainment and Related Development in the City Centre, and schedules SC(ii) and CC/SC(i) respectively.

Services: In this Plan, the term refers to outlets in shopping areas (primarily centres) where services are provided rather than goods sold. Such outlets may be covered by class 1 (e.g. travel agents), class 2 (e.g. banks), class 3 (e.g. restaurants) of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997, or be sui generis uses (e.g. public houses).

Sheffield Cycle Rack: A simple design of cycle rack, shaped like an upturned ‘U’, that provides secure parking for 2 cycles.

Shopping Analysis Area: For the purposes of this Plan’s retail capacity study (see City Plan Technical Note: Infrastructure - Retail and Commercial Development), the City was divided into 17 shopping analysis areas, one of which covers the City Centre. These should be regarded as geographical sub-divisions of the City rather than catchment areas in any functional sense.

Shopping Analysis Sector: For the purposes of the retail capacity study, the shopping analysis areas were aggregated into five sectors - the City Centre, West, North, East and South.

Shopping Centre: In this Plan, the reference to shopping centres has been avoided, to emphasise that centres are also the focus of many activities other than retailing.

Small Food Store: Store for the sale of foodstuffs and other convenience goods, of between 1,000 and 2,500m2 gross retail floorspace.

Social Inclusion Partnerships (SIPs): A partnership that is made up of public sector agencies and local community representatives with an interest in social inclusion and social justice in areas that have been designated by the Scottish Executive and are defined largely through deprivation indicators.

Streetscape: The redesign of streets in order to improve them in environmental, aesthetic and safety terms.

Sui Generis Use: Use that is not contained within any use class of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997; those relating to town centres, shopping and commercial development include theatres, amusement arcades, petrol filling stations, motor vehicle showrooms, public houses, hot food takeaways, and retail warehouse clubs operating restricted individual membership policies.

Superstore: Very large store of 5,000 m2 gross retail floorspace or more, selling mainly food, or in some cases a combination of food and non-food goods.

Sustainable Development: A principle established by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 and defined as development where the use of resources and the environment does not reduce the potential of these resources for succeeding generations.