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.