Local Plan Point Features: Planning Designations for Dudley Borough

Planning policy designations from the Black Country Core Strategy and several Area Action Plans adopted between 2011 and 2017. The dataset is published by the Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping land-use constraints based on policy designations mentioned in the description
• Analyzing spatial development strategy for the Dudley Borough based on adopted plans
• Validating site suitability for new developments against local plan designations

Strengths

• Data is sourced from multiple authoritative local plans adopted between 2011 and 2017
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse
• Maintained by a local government authority (Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council)

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 plans

Provenance

Source

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Collection Method

Likely extracted from official planning policy documents.

Time Range

Policies adopted from 2011 to 2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026 05 01 10:02:49.908183; freshness should be verified

Geography

Dudley Borough, UK