Local Planning Authorities (January 2026) Boundaries for the United Kingdom

Local Planning Authorities (January 2026) Boundaries UK BUC contains digital vector boundaries for Local Planning Authorities in the United Kingdom as of January 2026. The boundaries are in an Ultra Generalised (200m) format, clipped to the coastline. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics and was last updated on 2026-03-18.

Use Cases

• Mapping local planning authority jurisdictions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Conducting spatial joins for demographic or environmental data based on the administrative boundaries.
• Analyzing regional planning policy coverage across the UK based on the defined authority areas.
• Creating visualizations of UK administrative geography for reports or dashboards.

Strengths

• Boundaries are defined as of a specific date (January 2026), providing temporal clarity.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GPKG, GEOJSON, KML) for tool flexibility.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources (Ordnance Survey and ONS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description does not specify the exact number of authorities or the update frequency.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

As of January 2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 11:04:32.023634; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom