RGF
The latest product from the BIS ‘RAGPAG’ or Random Growth Policy Acronym Generator. Usefully, provided the name is impressive enough, there is no requirement for a policy thus generated to ‘do what it says on the tin’ or indeed to have any practical realworld value at all. See also Enterprise Zones.
Environmental Impact Assessment
An earnest and exhaustive combination of the obvious, the speculative and the impossible-to-know. Believed to be the origin of the phrase ‘ unable to see the wood for the trees’ . Analysis in America suggests that they are approaching the point where the carbon footprints of the larger EIAs, which need to be transported in [...]
To ‘win’ planning consent
Exactly when planning consents ceased to be granted, and begun to be ‘won’, is difficult to establish, but it there does seem to be a telling alignment with the arrival and ascendance of ‘X Factor’ and similar TV shows . Reports that DCLG are considering adopting a phone -in celebrity-led system of planning decision making [...]
‘Outline’ planning consent
A term, now used ironically, to apply to the process whereby a quick decision on the simple principle of development has been turned into a mammoth existentialist drama which is only resolved, if ever, long after the conditions which spawned the original development proposal have long since departed. Often closely associated with s106
S106
A largely futile attempt by planners to get developers to cough up for all the glamorous things the developers promised at the time of the application but had no intention or capacity to deliver. Often part of an attempt by planners to pre-empt a revised planning application.
