We've identified a number of existing policy areas that might be interesting to explore. Not all of them will be relevant or important to all local planning authorities.
List of existing policy areas
The non-exhaustive list includes:
- Areas of outstanding natural beauty
- Article 4 Directions
- Assets of community value
- Battlefields
- Building preservation notices
- Certificates of immunity
- Coalfield
- COMAH – major hazard sites
- Conservation areas
- Flood zone 1
- Flood zone 2
- Flood zone 3
- Greater London archaeological priority areas
- Green belt
- Heritage at risk
- Heritage coast
- Historic rural landscapes
- HS2 safeguarded areas
- Irreplaceable habitats
- Land ownership boundary
- Listed buildings
- Locally listed areas
- Long protected woodland
- Metropolitan open land (London)
- Mineral safeguarding areas
- National parks
- National permitted development rights
- Neighbourhood plans
- Non-designated archeology
- Nuclear zones
- Parks and gardens
- Proposed ramsar sites
- Protected views
- Protected wreck sites
- Ramsar sites
- Safeguarded aerodromes
- Safeguarded military explosives sites
- Safeguarded wharves
- Scheduled monuments
- Sites of special scientific interest
- Special areas of conservation
- Special protection areas
- The broads
- Transport (under TCPA route)
- Tree preservation orders
- World heritage sites
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