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Conservation Planning Index
This Conservation Planning Index brings together heritage assets, designated areas, landscape and ecological constraints. Planning law protects far more than listed buildings, so the index helps you identify what is protected before moving through assessment, consent and permitted development.
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Heritage assets and assessment
- Heritage significance and harm
- Heritage Impact Assessments
- Setting of a heritage asset
- Listed buildings
- Conservation areas
- Non-designated heritage assets
- Archaeology and planning
- Ridge and furrow planning
- Scheduled monuments
- Registered parks and gardens
- Registered battlefields
- Protected wreck sites
- World Heritage Sites
Permitted development in protected places
- Permitted development in a conservation area
- Permitted development affecting a listed building
- Permitted development in a National Landscape (AONB)
- Permitted development in a National Park
Protected landscapes
- National Landscapes (AONBs)
- AGLV (Area of Great Landscape Value)
- Local landscape designations
- Landscape character assessment
- Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)
- EIA screening and scoping
- National Parks
- The Broads
- Heritage Coast
Nature, habitats and trees
- Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA)
- Environmental Delivery Plans and Nature Restoration Fund
- Priority habitats and species
- Irreplaceable habitats
- Limestone Pavement Orders
- Local Wildlife Sites and Local Geological Sites
- Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS)
- Green infrastructure
- Nature reserves (NNRs and LNRs)
- Marine Conservation Zones
- Nutrient neutrality and planning
- Water scarcity and planning
- Chalk streams and planning
- Water neutrality and planning
- Air pollution and protected sites
- Special Protection Areas (SPA)
- Special Areas of Conservation (SAC)
- Ramsar sites
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
- SANG and recreational mitigation
- Protected species
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Conservation covenants
- Ecological survey calendar
- Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) & EcIA
- Field hedgerows
- Hedgerow Removal Notice
- Ancient woodland, ancient trees and veteran trees
- Trees and planning
- Tree Preservation Orders
Land and flood constraints
Conservation, Heritage & Protected Sites
Heritage
- Conservation & heritage home
- Conservation Index
- Heritage significance and harm
- Heritage Impact Assessments
- Setting of a heritage asset
- Listed buildings
- Conservation areas
- PD rights in conservation areas
- PD rights affecting listed buildings
- Non-designated heritage assets
- Archaeology and planning
- Ridge and furrow planning
- Registered parks and gardens
- Registered battlefields
- Protected wreck sites
- World Heritage Sites
- Scheduled monuments
- Scheduled monument consent
Heritage applications & enforcement
Protected landscapes
- National Landscapes (AONBs)
- AGLV (Area of Great Landscape Value)
- Local landscape designations
- Landscape character assessment
- Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)
- EIA screening and scoping
- PD rights in National Landscapes (AONBs)
- National Parks
- PD rights in National Parks
- The Broads
- Heritage Coast
Land & flood constraints
- Green Belt, grey belt, greenfield & brownfield
- Metropolitan Open Land (MOL)
- Strategic gaps, green wedges & settlement gaps
- Local Green Space
- Open space, playing fields & sports land
- Common land & village greens
- Flood zones
- Flood Risk Assessment (FRA)
- Coastal Change Management Areas
Nature & protected sites
- Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA)
- Environmental Delivery Plans & Nature Restoration Fund
- Priority habitats & species
- Irreplaceable habitats
- Limestone Pavement Orders
- Local Wildlife Sites and Local Geological Sites
- Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS)
- Green infrastructure
- Nature reserves (NNRs and LNRs)
- Marine Conservation Zones
- Nutrient neutrality
- Water scarcity
- Chalk streams & planning
- Water neutrality
- Air pollution and protected sites
- Special Protection Areas (SPA)
- Special Areas of Conservation (SAC)
- Ramsar sites
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
- SANG & recreational mitigation
- Ancient woodland & veteran trees
- Trees and planning
- Tree Preservation Orders
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Conservation covenants
- Field hedgerows
- Hedgerow Removal Notice
- Protected species
- Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) & EcIA
- Ecological survey calendar
Conservation Index Page Updated: 29th August 2026