What's Protected Where You Live

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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Pick a part of town, or type a postcode. The postcode is used once to find the spot and is never stored, logged, or put in a link.

A part of town

The Promenade and Municipal Offices, inside the Central Conservation Area.

What’s recorded at Town centre (the Promenade)

Designations recorded here

Conservation area
- Central Conservation Area · Reference 05/00006/CONARA
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
Article 4 direction
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council: article 4 directions
Green belt
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: GOV.UK: green belt planning guidance
Scheduled monument
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Historic England: scheduled monument consent
Registered park or garden
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Historic England: registered parks and gardens
Ancient woodland
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
Tree preservation order
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
Air quality management area
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council: air quality

Where this is

Local planning authority
- Cheltenham LPA · Reference E60000308
The authority that receives and decides planning applications here.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council: planning and building
Borough
- Cheltenham · Reference E07000078
The borough council area this point falls in.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council
Borough ward
- Lansdown · Reference E05015711
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
Parish
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Cheltenham Borough Council
Built-up area
- Cheltenham · Reference E63011286
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
Agricultural land grade
- E7/Urban
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

Listed buildings within 200 m

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.

Building	Grade	Distance
Numbers 47 to 83 and Attached Railings With Low Walls and End Piers to Numbers 71 and 73	Grade II*	30 m
Cheltenham War Memorial	Grade II	60 m
Numbers 1 to 18 and Attached Area Railings	Grade II*	90 m
Statue of Edward Wilson approx 80m South West of main entrance to Municipal Offices	Grade II	90 m
Boer War Memorial Approximately 10 Metres East of Number 47	Grade II	95 m
Bayshill Unitarian Church	Grade II	95 m
78, 80 and 82, Promenade	Grade II	100 m
84 and 86, Promenade	Grade II	100 m
Front Wall Only to Royscott House (number 85 Right Part) Front Wall Only to the North Wing of the Abc Cinema	Grade II	100 m
Numbers 1 to 4 and Attached Railings	Grade II	100 m
88, Promenade	Grade II	100 m
74 and 76, Promenade	Grade II	105 m
72, Promenade	Grade II	105 m
90, Promenade	Grade II	105 m
Promenade House (echo Office)	Grade II	110 m
92, Promenade	Grade II	110 m
Neptune Fountain Approximately 100 Metres South West of Main Entrance to Municipal Offices	Grade II	110 m
66, 68 and 70, Promenade	Grade II	115 m
94, 96 and 98, Promenade	Grade II	115 m
100, Promenade	Grade II	120 m
Group of Four K6 Telephone Boxes Outside Number 43	Grade II	120 m
60, 62 and 64, Promenade	Grade II	125 m
Crescent Parade and Attached Railings	Grade II	125 m
Madame Wrights Ormond Terrace	Grade II	125 m
Ormond Terrace Numbers 5 to 8 and Attached Railings to Numbers 5 6 and 7	Grade II	130 m
Ormond Terrace Numbers 2, 3 and 4 and Attached Area Railings to Number 4	Grade II	130 m
Numbers 99-119 and Attached Railings	Grade II*	130 m
Trident House (number 27a) and Attached Railings to Numbers 15 to 21 and 27	Grade II*	130 m
102, 104 and 106, Promenade	Grade II	135 m
52-58, Promenade	Grade II	135 m
Numbers 33 to 45 and Attached Railings	Grade II	135 m
Former Salem Baptist Chapel	Grade II	140 m
John Dower House and attached railings	Grade II	140 m
Lavernham House	Grade II	140 m
Ormond Terrace Numbers 16 and 17 and Attached Railings	Grade II	140 m
Numbers 1 to 6 and Attached Railings and Back of Premises of Echo Office	Grade II	145 m
50, Promenade	Grade II	145 m
St Georges Terrace Number 5 and Attached Railings	Grade II	150 m
Paris House	Grade II	150 m
Numbers 89 to 103 and Attached Area Railings	Grade II	150 m
Number 2 and Attached Railings	Grade II	160 m
Cheltenham Ladies College With Attached Walls Railings Gates and Gate Piers	Grade II	160 m
Gates Gate Piers and Railings to Fauconberg House	Grade II	160 m
1, CRESCENT PLACE (See details for further address information)	Grade II	165 m
Fish and Fiddle Wine Bar and Attached Railings	Grade II	165 m
Unnamed on the platform		165 m
St Georges Terrace Numbers 6 7 and 8 and Attached Railings	Grade II	165 m
42, Clarence Street	Grade II	170 m
Belgrave House with attached railings and pier	Grade II	170 m
Number 21 and Attached Railings	Grade II	170 m
Numbers 18 19 and 20 and Atached Area Railings	Grade II	175 m
Fauconberg House (cheltenham Ladies College) With Attached Railings	Grade II	180 m
22, 24 AND 26, CLARENCE STREET (See details for further address information)	Grade II	180 m
Synagogue	Grade II*	180 m
21 TO 31, PROMENADE (See details for further address information)	Grade II	185 m
Church of St Matthew and boundary wall and gate piers to St George's Place and Clarence Street	Grade II*	185 m
Cheltenham House and attached Theme and Variations sculpture	Grade II	190 m
Bank House (number 45)	Grade II	190 m
Group of Six K6 Telephone Boxes Outside Number 23	Grade II	190 m
Stamford House and Attached Area Railings	Grade II	190 m

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

Everything here is what the national planning data platform publishes for this point. It tells you what is designated. It does not tell you whether your work needs permission, and it is not a planning decision — designations move, and the platform can be behind an authority’s own records.

Who decides

Cheltenham LPA (E60000308) is the local planning authority here, and the only body that can say whether permission is needed for what you have in mind. Ask them before you start — not this page. Cheltenham LPA · Do I need planning permission?

Flood risk is not on this page — on purpose

This tool deliberately does not show flood risk. The national platform’s flood-risk layer is patchy here: point checks on the riverside came back empty while the district holds well over a thousand unnamed polygons elsewhere. Silence from it would read as safety, and that would be wrong. The Environment Agency’s Flood Map for Planning is the authority.

Official pages

Cheltenham Borough Council: conservation areas — Character appraisals for each of the 19 areas within the Central Conservation Area, and the borough's other conservation areas.
Cheltenham Borough Council: find out if you need planning permission — The council's own starting point, including the article 4 directions page.
Cheltenham Borough Council: the development plan — The policies a decision is actually made against.
Planning Portal: do I need planning permission? — The national interactive guide to permitted development.
Historic England: search the National Heritage List — The official record of every listed building, scheduled monument and registered park.
planning.data.gov.uk — The national platform this tool reads, where you can see every dataset and how up to date it is.

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.

Across the borough

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

What's Protected Where You Live

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Check a place

What’s recorded at Town centre (the Promenade)

Designations recorded here

Conservation area

Article 4 direction

Green belt

Scheduled monument

Registered park or garden

Ancient woodland

Tree preservation order

Air quality management area

Where this is

Local planning authority

Borough

Borough ward

Parish

Built-up area

Agricultural land grade

Listed buildings within 200 m

Official pages

Across the borough