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.

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Identification info

Alternative title

Local Authority Conservation Areas
Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
2003-01-01
Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
2011-11-26
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2019-12-18
Identifier
HESCA
Presentation form
Digital map
Point of contact
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
Distributor
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

  • Protected area

  • historic centre

GEMET -INSPIRE themes

  • Protected sites

IPSV-Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary

  • Conservation areas

  • Urban conservation
Other constraints
Limitations on Public Access
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
Distance
3  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Denominator
2500
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Boundaries
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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
Begin
1968
 
Temporal extent
 
Additional 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 Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0

WMS

1.3.0

WFS

2.0.0
 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

FILE:GEO

 		https://inspire.hes.scot/AtomService/DATA/ca_scotland.zip

ESRI Shapefile Download

OGC:WMS

 		https://inspire.hes.scot/arcgis/services/HES/Conservation_Areas/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

OGC:WFS

 		https://inspire.hes.scot/arcgis/services/HES/Conservation_Areas/MapServer/WFSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS
 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected Sites - Guidelines v 3.1.0
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.
Degree
true
Conformity
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation

This Spatial Data Service set is conformant with the INSPIRE

Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and

services
Degree
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
English
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2020-09-24T08:29:35
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland
Position name

GIS Officer
Voice

0131 668 8832
Delivery point

Longmore House, Salisbury Place
City

Edinburgh
Administrative area

Scotland
Postal code

EH9 1SH
Country

United Kingdom
Electronic mail address

GIEnquiries@hes.sco GIEnquiries@hes.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
 
 
 

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