What is a Conservation Area?
To learn more about Swindons' 28 Conservation Areas please read our leaflet.
Conservation Area leaflet.pdf
Where are the Conservation Areas?
To learn more....
SBC have two important documents relating to Conservation Areas; Firstly, the Conservation Area Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) and the areas' Conservation Area Appraisal.
1. Conservation Area SPG
The purpose of the SPG is to provide the background to the designation of the Borough’s Conservation Areas and to list the architectural, historic and environmental elements that have formed the framework for the Council’s ‘Conservation Area appraisals’.
Conservation Area SPG
(2.3Mb Adobe PDF Document)
2. Conservation Area Appraisal
These documents describe the Conservation Area in detail and the history behind some of the buildings.
The appraisals are listed below in alphabetical order and saved as PDF files.
Badbury
Bishopstone
Blunsdon St.Andrew
Broad Blunsdon
Castle Eaton
Chiseldon
Hampton
Hanninton
Highworth
Hinton Parva
Hodson
Liddington
Lower Blunsdon
Lower Wanborough
Old Town - Devizes Road
Old Town - Old Town
Old Town - Prospect Place
Old Town - Town Gardens
Railway Village
Railway Works
Rodbourne Cheney
Sevenhampton
Stanton Fitzwarren
Stratton St Margaret (Kingsdown)
Stratton St Margaret (Lower Stratton)
Upper Inglesham
Upper Wanborough
Wroughton
Printed Documents
Copies of current appraisals are available for purchase and please see the ‘Obtaining Printed Copies’ page for details of how to obtain the documents.
Useful Links
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
English Heritage
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
Ancient Monuments Society
Council for British Archaeology
The Georgian Group
The Victorian Society
The Twentieth Century Society
This web page was last updated on Friday 20th March 2009.