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- Shared ownership
- Simplified planning zones (SPZ)
- Sites of nature conservation importance
- Sites of special scientific interest (SSSI)
- Social housing
- Spatial development strategy (SDS)
- Spatial planning
- Statement of community involvement (SCI)
- Statement of consultation
- Strategic environmental assessment (SEA)
- Structure plan
- Submission document
- Supplementary planning documents (SPDs)
- Sustainability appraisal (SA)
- Sustainable communities/neighbourhoods
- Sustainable community strategy
- Sustainable development
- Section 106 agreements
- Sequential test/approach
Spatial planning
Planning which goes beyond traditional land uses to integrate policies for the development and use of land with other policies and programmes which influence the nature of places and how they function.
That will include policies which can impact on land use (for example by influencing the demands on or needs for development) but which are not capable of being delivered solely or mainly through the grant or refusal of planning permission and which may be implemented by other means.

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