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Demographic

Relating to population and its characteristics.

Durham Wildlife Trust

County Wildlife Trust which defines its mission as:

  1. To conserve wildife and promote nature conservation in County Durham, the City of Sunderland, the Boroughs of Gateshead and South Tyneside, and in adjacent waters;
  2. To act as the main focus for nature conservation in our geographical area and to provide the means by which communities and individuals can become involved, whether actively or passively.

Economically Active

People who are full and part-time employees, self-employed, on a government training scheme or unemployed.

Energy Minerals

These are minerals which are extracted for the generation of power. Coal, oil and gas are the most common examples.

English Nature (formerly the Nature Conservancy Council)

A government-funded organisation, which promotes nature conservation and provides advice in England. Similar organisations exist for Wales and Scotland.

Enterprise Zones

Areas set up to attract new and relocating businesses. In the zones, firms can benefit from financial incentives such as rate exemption and simplified planning regimes. The zones have a ten-year life span. Within South Tyneside, three areas of the Viking Industrial Park are designated within the New Tyne Riverside Enterprise Zone, established in 1996.

Environmental Capacity

The level at which unacceptable or irreversible damage is likely to occur.

Environmental Impact

The effects of land use or development on the environment. (For example, this may be the effects of a road scheme, quarrying, house building or an industrial process on existing communities).

How something is arranged/made up. For example, urban fabric is how the urban area is built up including the nature, age, condition and look of buildings.

Forest Gateway Site

Forest gateway sites are a major component of the Strategic Recreational Framework set out in the Great North Forest Plan (refer to Appendix ENV(H)).

The Forest Plan identifies twelve potential sites, including four which could be wholly or partly within South Tyneside – Wardley / Red Barns / Monkton Fell, Follingsby, Whitburn / Marsden, and Seaburn.

Their function is to introduce people to the countryside in an accessible, safe and comprehensible environment from which they can explore further afield through circular routes, interpretative trails and the wider rights of way system. The twelve Gateways will be linked to one another and to the main urban areas by a network of strategic multi-user recreation routes.

Gateway sites will vary in character, range of facilities and intensity of use: from major areas offering a wide range of facilities, to less intensive sites providing access to the rights of way network and basic provision such as car parking, information and picnic areas.

Any built development will be in accordance with the development plan status of the area in question (eg. Green Belt, landscape and wildlife). In some cases they will offer suitable locations for more active recreation and sporting activity involving a greater number of people through the provision of appropriate courses, pitches and equipment.

Gateway sites may be a single site, like a country park, or they may comprise a network of several smaller sites within the local area, linked by paths, cycleways and other recreational routes.

Green Belt

An area of land close to or encircling an urban area where restrictive development policies apply. Refer to Map 6.2. The aims of the Green Belt are set out in PPG2 (the Department of the Environment’s Planning Policy Guidance Note 2):

  • to check the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas;
  • to prevent neighbouring towns from merging into one another
  • to assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment;
  • to preserve the setting and special character of historic towns;
  • to assist in urban regeneration, by encouraging the recycling of derelict and other urban land.

Groundwork Trust

Part of the National Groundwork Foundation. The South Tyneside Groundwork Trust, established in 1991, aims to undertake small-scale environmental improvement schemes throughout the Borough. The Trust is mainly funded by the Borough Council, Tyne and Wear Development Corporation and the Groundwork Foundation.

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