Conservation Areas

Conservation areas are those parts of the district which have been recognised as having a special architectural or historic interest which is worthy of preservation and enhancement. When considering planning applications for developments within them, a duty is placed on the local planning authority to pay special attention to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of the conservation area.

West Oxfordshire designated Conservation Areas.  These are areas of special architectural or historic interest, which have a particular character or appearance worthy of preservation or enhancement.  Additional attribute fields were added for Digital Planning use in December 2025.

Comprised of data pertaining to protected trees of the Group, Woodland, and Area Categories. The Group category is used where the group’s overall impact and quality merits protection. The Woodland Category is used to safeguard a woodland as a whole. The Area Category is used to protect individual trees dispersed over an area, and only protects those trees which were standing at the time the Order was made. The data includes the title and number of the Order, as well as including the feature reference on the map of the original Order, and as described within the first schedule of the Order.

Cultural and historic places: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, or `heritage`. Useful for heritage protection, cultural mapping, and tourism context. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: tourism, amenity, historic, heritage - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

Identifies areas of special character as set out in the policy framework of D18 Special Character Areas Overlay – Residential and Business and Schedule 14 of the Plan.

This dataset contains Historic Landmarks (by structure) officially designated by the District of Columbia. This is a consolidated collection of structures with historical significance within the District of Columbia as listed in the "District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sights". It contains the SITES and attributes of buildings, statues, bridges, forts, fountains, & memorials of historical worth. These sites in general are the lot or lots that a structure or other designation sits on.