London Borough of Merton

Conservation area document

How to prepare and submit your Conservation area document data

1. 1

   Read the guidance to understand what data is required. Start with the fields you already have, you can update and improve your data over time.

2. 2

   1. The check service can help you understand if your data is ready to submit or if you need to change anything before you publish it on your website.

      You need to choose to provide your data in one of these file formats:

      • CSV
      • GeoJSON
      • GML
      • GeoPackage

      Alternatively you can provide us with a URL.

      1. Check your data

3. 3

   Your data must be hosted on a URL the public can access (this is your endpoint URL).

   You must link to that URL from a webpage about the data (your documentation URL).

   Your documentation URL needs to be on your official planning authority website, usually ending in gov.uk.

   It should also include a statement that the data is provided under the Open Government Licence.

4. 4

   To submit your endpoint URL, send an email to digitalland@communities.gov.uk.

   The email must include:

   • your full name
   • the name of your planning authority
   • a link to the webpage on your official planning authority website
   • a link to the endpoint URL

   We'll process your submission and add your dataset to the planning data platform.

5. 5

   Whenever the data changes, update it on your endpoint URL. We will collect data from your endpoint URL every day.

   Your endpoint URL needs to remain the same, don’t change it when you make updates.