Planning consideration

Conservation areas

Details

• Name: Conservation areas
• Description: An area of special architectural or historic interest with a character or appearance that must be preserved or enhanced
• Github discussion: 33
• Legislation: Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, Part II
• Useful links:
  • Design process document
  • Conservation areas process map
  • Historic environment guidance
• Stage: On the platform
• Prioritised: False
• Tags:
  • local land charge
  • local plan
  • odp
  • policies map

Data related

• Datasets:

  Conservation area

  See dataset on planning.data

  Conservation area document

  See dataset on planning.data

  Conservation area document type

  See dataset on planning.data

  Manage dataset in planning dataset editor

• Specification: Conservation area
• OS declaration What are the OS declaration options?: Presumption to publish

  See further information about this OS declaration

• Expected number of records: 10,000
• Frequency of updates: Ad hoc

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Background information

Each planning consideration we work on passes through the stages of our design process, where we research and answer specific questions to help us collect more information.

Read all the background information that we have on this consideration.

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3 notes

• Colm Britton (14 October 2024)

  We have updated the list of document types, adding in management-plan after Leicester Council expressed a need for this document type.

• elliotrowen (06 September 2024)

  Data frequency update is listed as 'ad hoc', as it is listed as 'as needed' at: https://opendata-historicengland.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/historicengland::conservation-areas/explore?location=52.761369%2C-2.491828%2C6.62

• Kieran Wint (04 September 2024)

  As per some research we did, summarised in this blog on an analysis of local plans and local area requirements, we're confident that this consideration acts as an INPUT to the process of creating a local plan.

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Last updated: 2025-04-23 09:46:56