Conservation areas exist to manage and protect the special architectural and historic interest of a place - in other words, the features that make it unique. Every local authority in England has at least one conservation area and there are around 10,000 in England.Most conservation areas are designated by the Council as the local planning authority. In conservation areas there are some extra planning controls and considerations in place to protect the historic and architectural elements which make the place special.
This national dataset is “indicative” not “definitive”. Definitive information can only be provided by individual local authorities and you should refer directly to their information for all purposes that require the most up to date and complete dataset. Conservation area data has not been supplied for all local authority areas. Local authority areas without conservation area data are attributed with 'No data available for publication by HE'.
Data is updated as necessary when new data is received.
Further details are available on our website here -
Historic England Open Data Hub -
Field name
Field alias
Description
Name
Name
Name of Conservation Area
DATE_OF_DE
Designation date
Designation date of the Conservation Area
DATE_UPDAT
Update date
Date on which the Conservation Area boundary was amended
CAPTURE_SC
Capture scale
Scale at which the spatial representation of the Conservation Area was captured
LPA
Local Planning Authority
Local Planning Authority responsible for the Conservation Area
UID
UID
Unique reference number from the Conservation Areas at Risk Survey
x
Easting
Centroid easting
y
Northing
Centroid northing