Local Planning Authority Boundaries for the UK, January 2026

Digital vector boundaries for all Local Planning Authorities in the United Kingdom as of January 2026. The data is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights. Boundaries are clipped to the coastline at the Mean High Water mark.

Use Cases

• Map and visualize local planning jurisdictions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Conduct spatial analysis for land-use planning based on the administrative geography.
• Integrate planning authority boundaries with other demographic or environmental datasets for policy modeling.

Strengths

• Boundaries are provided at full resolution (BFC) and are clipped to the coastline.
• Contains authoritative intellectual property from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and KML.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

January 2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 11:04:33.246385; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom