The list below comes from the national planning dataset at planning.data.gov.uk, which collects conservation area boundaries from councils across England. Liverpool City Council is the source for all 36 of the city's entries. The council's own page lists the same 36 by name and adds two figures of its own: the areas cover 9% of the city and protect about 19,000 properties.
| Ref | Conservation area | Designated |
|---|---|---|
| CA001 | Albert Dock | 17 November 1976 |
| CA002 | Canning Street | 24 April 1996 |
| CA003 | Castle Street | 22 April 2004 |
| CA004 | Childwall Abbey | 15 January 1991 |
| CA005 | Derwent Square | 8 April 1981 |
| CA006 | Duke Street | 24 January 2003 |
| CA007 | Edge Hill | 24 April 1996 |
| CA008 | Fulwood Park | 24 April 1996 |
| CA009 | Gateacre Village | 24 April 1996 |
| CA010 | Grassendale and Cressington Park | 24 April 1996 |
| CA011 | Grove Park | 17 November 1976 |
| CA012 | Hartley Village | not given in the dataset |
| CA013 | Hunts Cross Avenue | 4 August 1971 |
| CA014 | Kensington Fields | 2 November 2007 |
| CA015 | Knotty Ash | 13 April 2004 |
| CA016 | Lark Lane | 24 April 1996 |
| CA017 | Mossley Hill | 24 April 1996 |
| CA018 | Mount Pleasant | 17 November 1976 |
| CA019 | Muirhead Avenue | 2 May 2003 |
| CA020 | Newenham Crescent | 24 April 1996 |
| CA021 | Newsham Park | 3 March 1982 |
| CA022 | Ogden Close | 4 August 1971 |
| CA023 | Princes Park | 24 April 1996 |
| CA024 | Princes Road | 24 April 1996 |
| CA025 | Rodney Street | 24 January 2003 |
| CA026 | Sefton Park | 24 April 1996 |
| CA027 | Shaw Street | 16 February 1988 |
| CA028 | St Michaels Hamlet | 24 April 1996 |
| CA029 | Stanley Dock | 24 January 2003 |
| CA030 | Toxteth Park & Avenues | 29 April 2005 |
| CA031 | Walton on the Hill | 24 April 1996 |
| CA032 | Wavertree Garden Suburb | 22 December 1971 |
| CA033 | Wavertree Village | 7 November 1979 |
| CA034 | West Derby Village | 30 July 1969 |
| CA035 | William Brown Street | 3 September 1969 |
| CA036 | Woolton Village | 24 April 1996 |
How the designations built up
The dataset's dates show four waves. The first came in the late 1960s, with West Derby Village and William Brown Street in 1969, followed by Hunts Cross Avenue, Ogden Close and Wavertree Garden Suburb in 1971. The 1970s and 1980s added the centre and the older suburbs, among them Albert Dock, Mount Pleasant and Grove Park in 1976 and Newsham Park in 1982. Then, on 24 April 1996, 14 areas were designated on the same day, including Sefton Park, Princes Park, Canning Street, Lark Lane, Mossley Hill and Woolton Village. The 2000s added the commercial centre and the docks: Rodney Street, Duke Street and Stanley Dock in 2003, Castle Street and Knotty Ash in 2004, Toxteth Park and the Avenues in 2005, and Kensington Fields in 2007.
For a homeowner the date matters less than the boundary. A designation applies to everything inside its line, whether the building is a grand villa or a modest terrace, and the heat pump rule is the same in all 36.
Checking the boundary for your home
- Open the council's conservation area map from its conservation areas page and search for the address.
- If the map is unclear, use the national map on planning.data.gov.uk and switch on the conservation area layer.
- Note the area's name and, if you can, its CA reference, so that you and an installer are talking about the same thing.
- Check whether the house is also listed: a listed building is outside Class G whatever the area.
- Ask the council whether an Article 4 direction applies to the street, as its page advises for conservation areas.
What the designation means for a heat pump
Being in a conservation area does not stop a heat pump. It narrows where the outdoor unit can go under Class G: not on a wall or roof that fronts a road, and not nearer a road bounding the property than the nearest part of the house. For most Liverpool homes in these areas that still leaves the back yard, a rear wall or the flat roof of a back extension. Pick the area in the street check and it will apply that rule, and light the area up on the map, so you can see you have chosen the right one.
If the plan needs a front or side position facing a road, Class G will not cover it, and a planning application to the council is the route. The conservation areas and planning page explains what that involves.