What is a Conservation Area?
Conservation areas are areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance.
Conservation areas are designated by the Council, normally after local consultation.
What does designation mean?
Designation is not designed to stop change but rather to make sure that change is managed so that the special character of the area and its setting is preserved or enhanced.
To do this the Council has extra controls within conservation areas:
Demolition – Conservation Area Consent is required to demolish buildings over 115m3 and other structures such as boundary walls.
New Development – New buildings, extensions and alterations should preserve or enhance the special character of the conservation area and its setting.
Minor development – In conservation areas permitted development rights are restricted. This means that planning permission is required for some works that normally wouldn’t need it, such as small extensions, dormer windows, cladding, some garden structures, satellite dishes and radio masts.
Advertisements – There is also greater control over advertisements and signs in terms of their size and type.
Works to trees – The Council must be notified six weeks prior to any proposed tree works. For more information see the tree management web page.
Conservation Areas in Leeds
There are 76 conservation areas in the Leeds district. Conservation area appraisals and management plans are available for some of them.
• Aberford
• Adel – St John’s
• Armley
• Armley Mills
• Bardsey-cum-Rigton
• Barwick in Elmet
• Beeston Stank Hall
• Boston Spa
• Bramham
• Bramhope
• Bramley Hill Top
• Bramley Town
• Burley The Village
• Buslingthorpe
• Calverley
• Calverley Bridge
• Central Area Canal Wharf
• Central Eastern Riverside
• Chapel Allerton
• Chapeltown
• Clifford
• Collingham
• Colton
• East Keswick
• Far Headingley
• Farnley Upper Moor Side
• Farsley
• Gledhow Valley
• Guiseley
• Harewood
• Headingley
• Headingley Hill, Hyde Park and Woodhouse Moor
• Holbeck
• Horsforth
• Kirkstall Abbey
• Ledsham
• Linton
• Leeds City Centre
• Meanwood
• Methley Church Side
• Morley Dartmouth Park
• Morley Town Centre
• Newlay
• Oulton
• Otley
• Pool-in-Wharfedale
• Pudsey
• Pudsey Fulneck
• Queen Square
• Rodley
• Rawdon Cragg Wood
• Rawdon Low Green
• Rawdon Littlemoor
• Rawdon Little London
• Rothwell
• Roundhay
• Scarcroft
• Scholes
• Seacroft Dawson’s Court
• Shadwell
• Thorner
• Thorp Arch
• Walton
• Weetwood
• West Park
• Wetherby
• Woodhall Hills
• Woodhouse Blenheim Square
• Woodhouse Lane University Precinct
• Woodhouse Hanover Square
• Woodhouse Clarendon Road
• Whitkirk
• Woodhouse Moorlands
• Woodlesford
• Yeadon
