HED Consultation Zones: Heritage Planning Guidance for Northern Ireland

Monthly updated geospatial data from the Historic Environment Division (HED) provides guidance zones indicating when planners should consult HED regarding proposals near heritage assets. The service is provided by HED and data is produced from HED sources, updated monthly. Attribution values include a unique ID, source layer, and buffer value for each record.

Use Cases

• Identify mandatory consultation areas for planning applications based on proximity to heritage assets.
• Integrate heritage guidance zones into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for spatial planning workflows.
• Analyze the distribution and coverage of heritage consultation zones across Northern Ireland.

Strengths

• Data is updated monthly, suggesting regular maintenance.
• Contains attribution values including unique IDs and source layers for traceability.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, permitting reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Historic Environment Division (HED) data, aggregated by OpenDataNI.

Collection Method

Produced from HED data, likely involving buffering and zone creation processes.

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated monthly; last metadata update was 2026-05-06 17:01:19.902284.

Geography

Northern Ireland (inferred from platform 'uk_data' and organization 'OpenDataNI').