Local Planning Authorities Boundaries for the UK as of April 2020

United Kingdom digital vector boundaries for Local Planning Authorities as of April 2020. The boundaries are Full resolution - extent of the realm (BFE), typically extending to the Mean Low Water mark. The dataset contains both Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping local planning jurisdictions based on the described administrative boundaries.
• Analyzing land-use policy coverage based on the full-resolution extent of the realm.
• Integrating planning authority geography with other UK datasets for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Boundaries are specified as 'Full resolution - extent of the realm' (BFE).
• Contains intellectual property rights from Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Snapshot is temporally specific to April 2020.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the data snapshot is from 2020.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

April 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:08.965165; data snapshot is from April 2020.

Geography

United Kingdom