Planning Policy / Conservation areas
Conservation areas in England
9,960 named conservation areas across 9 regions, each published to the national planning data index. Inside one, the design bar for external work rises and some permitted development rights fall away. Find yours by council below — or read what a conservation area means.
East Midlands
Amber Valley (29)Ashfield (5)Bassetlaw (33)Blaby (11)Bolsover (27)Boston (11)Broxtowe (15)Charnwood (39)Chesterfield (12)Derby (15)Derbyshire Dales (33)East Lindsey (17)Erewash (22)Gedling (6)Harborough (50)High Peak (29)Hinckley and Bosworth (28)Leicester (25)Lincoln (11)Mansfield (11)Melton (43)Newark and Sherwood (47)North East Derbyshire (33)North Kesteven (38)North Northamptonshire (82)North West Leicestershire (26)Nottingham (31)Oadby and Wigston (10)Rushcliffe (32)Rutland County (34)South Derbyshire (22)South Holland (13)South Kesteven (48)West Lindsey (25)West Northamptonshire (118)
East of England
Babergh (58)Basildon (4)Bedford (29)Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk (48)Braintree (37)Breckland (45)Brentwood (13)Broadland (31)Broxbourne (6)Cambridge (13)Castle Point (2)Central Bedfordshire (61)Chelmsford (25)Colchester (24)Dacorum (23)East Cambridgeshire (28)East Hertfordshire (42)East Suffolk (45)Epping Forest (25)Fenland (13)Great Yarmouth (23)Harlow (10)Hertsmere (16)Huntingdonshire (59)Ipswich (15)Luton (5)Maldon (92)Mid Suffolk (1)North Hertfordshire (44)North Norfolk (91)Norwich (17)Peterborough (30)Rochford (10)South Cambridgeshire (85)South Norfolk (84)Southend-on-Sea (19)St Albans City and (45)Stevenage (7)Tendring (20)Three Rivers (19)Thurrock (7)Uttlesford (42)Watford (10)Welwyn Hatfield (10)West Suffolk (48)
London
Barking and Dagenham (4)Barnet (16)Bexley (23)Brent (23)Bromley (43)Camden (40)Croydon (19)Ealing (31)Enfield (24)Hackney (30)Hammersmith & Fulham (47)Haringey (33)Harrow (27)Havering (11)Hillingdon (42)Hounslow (43)Kensington and Chelsea (41)Kingston upon Thames (26)Lambeth (65)Lewisham (30)London (28)Merton (28)Newham (7)Redbridge (16)Richmond upon Thames (85)Southwark (54)Tower Hamlets (61)Waltham Forest (15)Wandsworth (46)Westminster (56)
North East
North West
Blackburn with Darwen (14)Blackpool (10)Bolton Metropolitan (26)Burnley (10)Bury Metropolitan (12)Cheshire East (75)Cheshire West and Chester (95)Chorley (9)Cumberland (51)Fylde (10)Halton (13)Hyndburn (10)Lancaster (35)Liverpool (36)Manchester (34)Oldham Metropolitan (33)Pendle (23)Preston (11)Ribble Valley (22)Rochdale Metropolitan (30)Rossendale (10)Salford (16)Sefton Metropolitan (25)South Ribble (8)St Helens (14)Stockport Metropolitan (37)Tameside Metropolitan (9)Trafford Metropolitan (22)Warrington (16)West Lancashire (28)Westmorland and Furness (40)Wigan Metropolitan (23)Wirral (29)Wyre (8)
South East
Adur (7)Arun (23)Ashford (44)Basingstoke and Deane (43)Bracknell Forest (4)Brighton and Hove (34)Buckinghamshire (186)Canterbury (98)Cherwell (60)Chichester (23)Crawley (13)Dartford (6)Dover (103)East Hampshire (50)Eastbourne (12)Eastleigh (8)Elmbridge (25)Epsom and Ewell (28)Fareham (13)Folkestone and Hythe (21)Gosport (19)Gravesham (23)Guildford (41)Hart (39)Hastings (18)Havant (15)Horsham (40)Isle of Wight (48)Lewes (28)Maidstone (53)Medway (24)Mid Sussex (35)Milton Keynes (40)Mole Valley (37)New Forest (23)Oxford (18)Portsmouth (25)Reading (15)Reigate and Banstead (21)Rother (10)Runnymede (8)Rushmoor (8)Sevenoaks (41)Slough (5)South Oxfordshire (71)Southampton (42)Spelthorne (8)Surrey Heath (11)Swale (52)Tandridge (19)Test Valley (36)Thanet (27)Tonbridge and Malling (60)Tunbridge Wells (34)Vale of White Horse (55)Waverley (44)Wealden (33)West Berkshire (51)West Oxfordshire (50)Winchester (34)Woking (28)Wokingham (27)Worthing (26)
South West
Bath and North East Somerset (35)Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (48)Bristol (34)Cheltenham (7)Cornwall (145)Cotswold (144)Council of the Isles of Scilly (1)Dorset (311)East Devon (32)Exeter (20)Forest of Dean (27)Gloucester (14)Mid Devon (51)North Devon (41)North Somerset (39)Plymouth (15)Somerset (178)South Gloucestershire (30)South Hams (47)Stroud (41)Swindon (28)Teignbridge (35)Tewkesbury (14)Torbay (24)Torridge (20)West Devon (24)Wiltshire (245)
West Midlands
Birmingham (29)Bromsgrove (12)Cannock Chase (8)Coventry (18)Dudley Metropolitan (22)East Staffordshire (25)Herefordshire (64)Lichfield (21)Malvern Hills (21)Newcastle-under-Lyme (21)North Warwickshire (11)Nuneaton and Bedworth (4)Redditch (2)Rugby (19)Sandwell Metropolitan (9)Shropshire (122)Solihull Metropolitan (20)South Staffordshire (19)Stafford (31)Staffordshire Moorlands (17)Stoke-on-Trent (22)Stratford-on-Avon (76)Tamworth (7)Telford & Wrekin (8)Walsall Metropolitan (18)Warwick (23)Wolverhampton (30)Worcester (18)Wychavon (64)Wyre Forest (17)
Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley Metropolitan (17)Bradford Metropolitan (58)Calderdale Metropolitan (27)Doncaster Metropolitan (38)East Riding of Yorkshire (126)Hull (26)Kirklees (59)Leeds (80)North East Lincolnshire (17)North Lincolnshire (17)North Yorkshire (248)Rotherham Metropolitan (28)Sheffield (33)Wakefield Metropolitan (11)York (35)