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• RBS - Radio Base Station
• RDS - Regional Development Strategy
• RPA - Review of Public Administration
• RSPB - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• RTS - Regional Transportation Strategy
• RSTN - TP Regional Strategic Transport Network Transport Plan

• Ramsar Convention International - Convention on the protection of wetlands.
• Rebuttal Statements - Statement from the Department responding to objections to a draft Area Plan.
• Recovery - The reclamation, collection and separation of waste materials from the waste stream.
• Recycling - The recovery and re-use of materials from the waste stream.
• Regeneration - The process of improving housing conditions or dereliction within an area (including NIHE estates) using a variety of approaches including Redevelopment, Estate Strategies, Housing Renovation Grants, and the encouragement of the private sector.
• Re-letting - The process of allocating tenancies of vacant social existing properties to applicants on the Common Waiting Lis.
• Reserved Matters - Issues still to be addressed between receipt of Outline and Full planning permission.
• Re-use - The repeated utilisation of an item/material for its original (or other) purpose.
• River basin - See Catchment
• Run-off - that proportion of rainfall which is not absorbed into the ground and finds its way into watercourses, eventually flowing to the sea.