The pleasantness, benefits and enjoyableness of an environment. While individual features such as a toilet block are called ‘amenities’, amenity in planning law is a quality, not a location or a thing. For example, building a toilet block will add to the number of public amenities in the area, but it may also decrease the amenity of the near neighbours.

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