| AMR | Annual Monitoring Report A public report to show progress on the LDF |
| CPRE | Council for the Protection of Rural England |
| ESA | Environmentally Sensitive Area |
| EA | Environment Agency |
| EERA | East of England Regional Assembly website | Not the East of England Regional Assembly website |
| EiP | Examination in Public |
| EEDA | East of England Development Agency |
| FHDC | |
| Go-East | Government Offices for the East of England |
| LAA | Local Area Agreement - A new way of spending taxpayers money |
| LDF | Local Development Framework |
| LDS | Local Development Scheme |
| LDD | Local Development Documents |
| ODPM | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister |
| RSS | Regional Spatial Strategy |
| SSSI | Site of Special Scientific Interest |
| SCI | Statement of Community Involvement |
| SA | Sustainability Appraisal |
| SEA | Strategic Environmental Assessment |
| SPS | Suffolk Preservation Society |
| Stakeholders | A group on unelected lobbyists, business representatives, charities, etc having a say in decision making |
| 2020 Vision | A Plan on How Forest Heath will look in the year 2020 |
| WSLSP | West Suffolk Local Strategic Partnership |