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v2.163.0

Heritage, conservation and land-constraint designations, and property assessments

New heritage, conservation and land-constraint designation endpoints let you query designations by area, and property responses can now carry heritage and conservation assessments.

Added

  • Added the Heritage designations product. POST /v1/heritage/designations/query finds nationally designated heritage assets, including scheduled_monument, world_heritage_site, listed_building, registered_park_garden, registered_battlefield and protected_wreck_site, within an area. The request area accepts a point with a radius, a postcode, an outcode, a boundingBox, a polygon or a multipolygon, with optional filters on designationType, nation (ENG, SCO, WAL, NIR) and localAuthority, plus sort, limit and offset.
  • Each designation returns a stable designationId, its reference, name, nation, designationType, designatedDate, category, localAuthority, areaHectares and a centroid, along with licence, attribution and full provenance. Request attributes=geometry to include the full boundary as GeoJSON, and distanceM reports the distance from a query point.
  • Added the Conservation designations product. POST /v1/conservation/designations/query covers nature and landscape designations such as sac, spa, ramsar, site_of_special_scientific_interest, ancient_woodland, national_park and national_nature_reserve, over the same area grammar and response shape.
  • Added the Land Constraint designations product. POST /v1/land-constraint/designations/query covers planning and land constraints including green_belt, tree_preservation_zone, article_4_direction_area, agricultural_land_classification, flood_zone_2, flood_zone_3 and coal_development_high_risk_area.
  • For each product you can retrieve a single designation by id, for example GET /v1/heritage/designations/{designationId}, list the available types with counts at GET /v1/heritage/types, and list published dataset snapshots at GET /v1/heritage/snapshots. The types endpoints are open, so you can inspect coverage before querying.
  • On the property response, for example GET /v1/property/{locationIds}, a new assessments block reports whether a property sits inside, or near, a heritage or conservation designation. For each designation type it returns either inside: true with the zone, or inside: false with the nearest zone and its distanceM, so you can tell an intersecting listed building or conservation area from a nearby one. This block is available under the designation value entitlement.

Affected endpoints