Local Plan Line Features: Planning Designations for Dudley Borough, UK

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council provides geospatial line features representing planning policy designations. The data originates from the Black Country Core Strategy adopted in 2011 and several Area Action Plans adopted between 2011 and 2017. It was last updated on 2026-05-01 and is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0.

Use Cases

• Mapping planning policy boundaries based on the described local plan documents.
• Analyzing spatial constraints for development based on designated line features.
• Integrating land-use designations with other geospatial datasets for regional planning.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official, adopted local plan documents.
• Has a specific last update timestamp of 2026-05-01 10:02:17.165820.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific local authority plans.

Provenance

Source

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Collection Method

Likely digitized from adopted planning policy documents.

Time Range

Policies adopted from 2011 to 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 10:02:17.165820; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dudley Borough, UK.