Type a Cheltenham postcode and see what's recorded there — conservation area, article 4, green belt, listed buildings nearby — and what each one means for building work.
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An area the council has designated for its special architectural or historic character. Permitted development rights are tighter than elsewhere — cladding, some extensions, roof alterations and satellite dishes that would need no application on an ordinary street can need one here — and demolition needs consent. Trees are covered too: you must give the council six weeks' notice before cutting or pruning one, whether or not it has a preservation order. Cheltenham's Central Conservation Area alone is split into 19 separately assessed character areas.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council: conservation areas
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council: article 4 directions
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: GOV.UK: green belt planning guidance
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Historic England: scheduled monument consent
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Historic England: registered parks and gardens
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: GOV.UK: ancient woodland and veteran trees in planning decisions
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Cheltenham holds roughly 550 tree preservation orders, but has published only a handful of them to the national platform, so a quiet answer here is not proof a tree near you is unprotected — that is a gap in publication, not in protection. Ask the council before you cut. And in a conservation area you must give six weeks' notice for tree work whether an order exists or not.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council: trees and planning
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council: air quality
The authority that receives and decides planning applications here.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council: planning and building
The borough council area this point falls in.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council
The ward you vote in for borough councillors — the people who sit on the planning committee.
Who holds the rules: planning.data.gov.uk: wards
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council
The settlement the Office for National Statistics puts this point in — which is how the platform names places, and is not the same thing as a planning settlement boundary.
Who holds the rules: planning.data.gov.uk: built-up areas
How the land is graded for farming. Grades 1, 2 and 3a are "best and most versatile" land, which policy protects from development; "Urban" means it is already built up.
Who holds the rules: planning.data.gov.uk: agricultural land classification
62 listed buildings are recorded within 200 m of this point. The nearest 60 of 62 are in the table below.
Pins are each listing’s own published point, which for a terrace or a long wall is one point for the whole thing. The table below the map is the same data, and is what you get with the map switched off.
Cheltenham is a Regency spa town where a very large share of the housing stock sits inside a conservation area, is listed, or both — the borough holds seven conservation areas and 1,135 listed buildings. "Can I actually do anything to this house?" has a real cost attached to getting it wrong. Pick a part of town, or type a postcode, and this shows what England's national planning data platform records at that exact spot, with a plain-words line on what each designation means for building work.
This is a record, not a decision
Who decides
Flood risk is not on this page — on purpose
Designations from planning.data.gov.uk, the national planning data platform (Open Government Licence). Postcodes are located by postcodes.io (Open Government Licence). Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How much of the district these designations cover, counted from the same platform. Only designations wholly inside the district are counted.
| Designation | In the district |
|---|---|
| Conservation areas | 7 |
| Listed buildings | 1,135 |
| Scheduled monuments | 6 |
| Registered parks and gardens | 3 |
| Ancient woodlands | 2 |
| Air quality management areas | 1 |