Conservation Areas

The defining of Conservation Areas is governed by the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997; an update from previous Acts relating to such areas. Conservation Areas are designated by local planning authorities and can play an important role in environmental enhancement, economic and community regeneration (e.g. Townscape Heritage Initiatives and Conservation Areas Regeneration Schemes).


Councils review conservation areas from time to time in order to assess the need for alteration of boundaries for areas for which special planning considerations apply, e.g. Article 4 directions. Many conservation areas now have character appraisals to explain what it is that should be preserved and what can be enhanced.

 
Citation proposal
(2011) . Conservation Areas. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/61e70ae1-bbfa-40f7-a72c-2b782a63f81c

Simple

Alternate title

Local Authority Conservation Areas

Date ( Creation )
2003-01-01
Date ( Publication )
2011-11-26
Date ( Revision )
2019-12-18
Identifier

HESCA

Presentation form
mapDigital Digital map

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  Distributor

Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

  • Protected area

    ,

    historic centre

GEMET -INSPIRE themes

  • Protected sites

IPSV-Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary

  • Conservation areas

    ,

    Urban conservation

Use limitation

This data is indicative only and reference should always be made to the relevant local authority. It should be noted that amendments to the schedule are made by local authorities and that the information may change or not be current until the local authority has notified us of any changes.


This data is licensed under the UK Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ .

Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints

If this data is reproduced it must be attributed with the following: Contains Historic Environment Scotland and Ordnance Survey data © Historic Environment Scotland - Scottish Charity No. SC045925 © Crown copyright and database right [year]

Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Distance
3  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Denominator
2500
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Environment
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S
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W


Supplemental Information

Historic Scotland is an Executive Agency within the Scottish Government, responsible to Scottish Ministers for safeguarding the nation's built heritage and promoting its understanding and enjoyment.

Reference system identifier

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700

Distribution format

  • ESRI Shapefile

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    1.0

    )

  • WMS

    (

    1.3.0

    )

  • WFS

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    2.0.0

    )

OnLine resource
ESRI Shapefile Download  

Download zip file with Conservation Areas shapefile, layer file and metadata

OnLine resource
WMS service for Conservation Areas  
OnLine resource
WFS service for Conservation Areas  
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-05-03
Explanation

This dataset is not in a conformed format (such as GML). However, it conforms to projection and metadata. Vertical data in metadata is currently from Chart Datum. The temporal extent of the data is not ended as this is a live dataset, which may change in the future. The version date of the data can be found under Temporal Extent.

Pass
true
Statement

The dataset was first created from the merging of shapefile and Cad data provided by some councils from 2003 (see attribute table for details). Some in-house data capture at 1:2500 from published maps was also undertaken. Since then the dataset is being refreshed by data supplied by local authorities.

Metadata

File identifier
61e70ae1-bbfa-40f7-a72c-2b782a63f81c   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-01-07
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

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