Land and property

Article 4 direction area data

These datasets contain polygons for article 4 direction areas within the City of Liverpool. An article 4 direction is a direction under article 4 of the General Permitted Development Order which enables the Secretary of State or the local planning authority to withdraw specified permitted development rights across a defined area.

About this data

The datasets may include historical information on permitted development classes removed under the relevant legislation at that time. However, in order to fulfil the Open Digital Planning Program specifications, we have translated the old direction classes into their modern counterparts.

Liverpool is one of the Local Planning Authorities that received Government funding to improve their planning services through the Local Digital Fund.

This aims to digitise Planning to make land and housing data easier to find, understand, use and trust. This data is also available on the Map of planning data for England (GOV.UK).

Licence and copyright

This dataset has been published by Liverpool City Council under the Open Government Licence (OGL) (v3). The licence has been applied following the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement 'presumption to publish' process in December 2022. © Liverpool City Council, 2025, OGL v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right, 2025.

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