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• PAC - Planning Appeals Commission
• PCN - Personal Communications NetworK
• PPS - Planning Policy Statement
• PSRNI - A Planning Strategy for Rural Northern Ireland
• PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network

• Permitted Development - Development which does not require planning permission such as certain agricultural and forestry developments.
• Planning Service - Section of the Department of the Environment responsible for planning.
• Pondage - See Flood Storage
• Prematurity - Making a planning decision before the relevant development plan has been completed or adopted.
• Proximity Principle - Highlights a need to treat and/or dispose of waste in reasonable proximity to the point at which it is generated.
• Putrescible - Liable to decompose or rot with an offensive smell.