Glossary of Abbreviations

• TMBC - Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
   
• UDP - Unitary Development Plan
   
• PPG - Planning Policy Guidance Note
   
• PPG1 - General Policy and Principles
   
• PPG2 - Green Belts
   
• PPG3 - Housing
   
• PPG4 - Industrial and Commercial Development and Small Firms
   
• PPG6 - Town Centres and Retail Developments
   
• PPG7 - The Countryside - Environmental Quality and Economic and Social Development
   
• PPG8 - Telecommunications
   
• PPG9 - Nature Conservation
   
• PPG10 - Planning and Waste Management
   
• PPG12 - Development Plans
   
• PPG13 - Transport
   
• PPG14 - Development on Unstable Land
   
• PPG15 - Planning and the Historic Environment
   
• PPG16 - Archaeology and Planning
   
• PPG17 - Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation
   
• PPG18 - Enforcing Planning Control
   
• PPG21 - Tourism
   
• PPG22 - Renewable Energy
   
• PPG23 - Planning and Pollution Control
   
• PPG24 - Planning and Noise
   
• PPG25 - Development and Flood Risk
   
• RPG - Regional Planning Guidance
   
• RPG13 - Regional Planning Guidance for the North West
   
• RPG8 - Regional Planning Guidance for the East Midlands
   
• SPG - Supplementary Planning Guidance
   
• NWDA - North West Development Agency
   
• GMPTE - Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive
   
• GMPTA - Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority
   
• PTA - Passenger Transport Authority
   
• LTP - Local transport plan
   
• GMLTP - Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan
   
• SSSI - Site of Special Scientific Interest
   
• SBI - Site of Biological Importance
   
• SRB - Single Regeneration Budget
   
• HA - Highways England
• EA - Environment Agency
• GONW - Government Office for the North West
   
• EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment
   
• DETR - Department of Environment Transport and the Regions