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The Conservation Area premium.
How much more does a home inside an English Conservation Area sell for? Per-LAD sales-weighted median premium across detached / semi / terrace / flat, last 3 years.
| # | Council | Premium £ | Premium % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newcastle upon Tyne | +£415k | +195.5% |
| 2 | Trafford | +£414k | +104.6% |
| 3 | North Tyneside | +£183k | +91.3% |
| 4 | Warrington | +£242k | +86.5% |
| 5 | Birmingham | +£213k | +85.8% |
| 6 | Sheffield | +£195k | +85.1% |
| 7 | Chorley | +£203k | +77.2% |
| 8 | Darlington | +£117k | +76.2% |
| 9 | South Tyneside | +£130k | +75.5% |
| 10 | Lewes | +£296k | +72.7% |
| 11 | Stockton-on-Tees | +£116k | +72.0% |
| 12 | Middlesbrough | +£115k | +70.5% |
| 13 | Hounslow | +£323k | +67.1% |
| 14 | Cambridge | +£347k | +64.5% |
| 15 | Brent | +£382k | +64.1% |
| 16 | Merton | +£439k | +63.9% |
| 17 | Salford | +£153k | +62.3% |
| 18 | Bath and North East Somerset | +£239k | +61.1% |
| 19 | Winchester | +£286k | +60.0% |
| 20 | Portsmouth | +£155k | +58.7% |
| 21 | Hartlepool | +£96k | +56.1% |
| 22 | Stockport | +£184k | +56.0% |
| 23 | Liverpool | +£102k | +55.0% |
| 24 | County Durham | +£77k | +54.4% |
| 25 | Manchester | +£147k | +53.4% |
| 26 | Sunderland | +£87k | +52.5% |
| 27 | St. Helens | +£114k | +51.9% |
| 28 | Warwick | +£193k | +51.4% |
| 29 | Wirral | +£132k | +50.4% |
| 30 | Northumberland | +£96k | +49.9% |
| 31 | Redbridge | +£254k | +49.8% |
| 32 | Kingston upon Hull, City of | +£72k | +49.8% |
| 33 | Halton | +£127k | +47.7% |
| 34 | Redcar and Cleveland | +£73k | +47.3% |
| 35 | Nottingham | +£103k | +46.3% |
| 36 | Gateshead | +£78k | +46.1% |
| 37 | East Suffolk | +£144k | +46.1% |
| 38 | North East Derbyshire | +£126k | +46.0% |
| 39 | South Derbyshire | +£121k | +44.7% |
| 40 | Kensington and Chelsea | +£482k | +44.6% |
| 41 | Westminster | +£341k | +43.3% |
| 42 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | +£189k | +43.3% |
| 43 | Lichfield | +£144k | +42.9% |
| 44 | Test Valley | +£164k | +41.5% |
| 45 | Wyre Forest | +£115k | +41.2% |
| 46 | Oxford | +£196k | +41.2% |
| 47 | York | +£124k | +41.0% |
| 48 | Exeter | +£142k | +40.9% |
| 49 | South Staffordshire | +£119k | +40.9% |
| 50 | New Forest | +£178k | +40.9% |
| 51 | Bradford | +£78k | +40.7% |
| 52 | Enfield | +£221k | +40.7% |
| 53 | East Staffordshire | +£109k | +40.5% |
| 54 | Oadby and Wigston | +£172k | +40.3% |
| 55 | Mansfield | +£91k | +39.9% |
| 56 | Doncaster | +£81k | +39.6% |
| 57 | Ipswich | +£108k | +39.5% |
| 58 | Barnsley | +£73k | +39.2% |
| 59 | Cotswold | +£185k | +38.9% |
| 60 | Lincoln | +£80k | +38.9% |
| 61 | Plymouth | +£85k | +38.5% |
| 62 | Wealden | +£164k | +38.4% |
| 63 | Hastings | +£120k | +38.2% |
| 64 | Bristol, City of | +£119k | +37.4% |
| 65 | Leeds | +£99k | +37.1% |
| 66 | Chichester | +£177k | +36.8% |
| 67 | Brighton and Hove | +£181k | +36.6% |
| 68 | Harborough | +£139k | +36.1% |
| 69 | Arun | +£155k | +35.5% |
| 70 | Haringey | +£235k | +35.3% |
| 71 | Bolsover | +£90k | +35.2% |
| 72 | Wigan | +£81k | +35.2% |
| 73 | Erewash | +£87k | +35.0% |
| 74 | Barnet | +£296k | +34.7% |
| 75 | Derby | +£85k | +34.6% |
| 76 | Bromsgrove | +£162k | +34.3% |
| 77 | Peterborough | +£98k | +33.9% |
| 78 | North Norfolk | +£116k | +33.8% |
| 79 | Wychavon | +£126k | +33.2% |
| 80 | Newark and Sherwood | +£84k | +33.2% |
| 81 | South Oxfordshire | +£145k | +32.8% |
| 82 | Stroud | +£124k | +32.8% |
| 83 | Southend-on-Sea | +£119k | +32.7% |
| 84 | Coventry | +£85k | +32.5% |
| 85 | Cheltenham | +£99k | +32.4% |
| 86 | Worcester | +£87k | +32.0% |
| 87 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | +£75k | +31.9% |
| 88 | North Yorkshire | +£93k | +31.8% |
| 89 | Richmond upon Thames | +£269k | +31.3% |
| 90 | Havant | +£115k | +31.2% |
| 91 | South Ribble | +£76k | +31.0% |
| 92 | Dover | +£96k | +30.9% |
| 93 | Kingston upon Thames | +£226k | +30.9% |
| 94 | Westmorland and Furness | +£63k | +30.8% |
| 95 | North East Lincolnshire | +£46k | +30.5% |
| 96 | Newham | +£144k | +30.5% |
| 97 | Bury | +£82k | +30.4% |
| 98 | Amber Valley | +£75k | +30.1% |
| 99 | Spelthorne | +£156k | +30.1% |
| 100 | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | +£90k | +30.0% |
Caveats — read before quoting this
- HM Land Registry doesn't record floor area, so the comparison is property-type-controlled only (detached vs semi vs terrace vs flat). Bigger CA homes will inflate the apparent premium.
- Conservation-area homes are systematically older and were already pricier — this is correlation, not a causal "designation effect".
- The comparison is LAD-wide, not adjacent-postcode. A robust analysis would compare in-CA postcodes to physically-adjacent out-of-CA postcodes.
- Filtered to standard residential transfers (ppd_category=A) and prices £20k–£20m to drop obvious data errors.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid · planning.data.gov.uk Conservation Areas · ONS Postcode Directory (via postcodes.io) · Open Government Licence v3.0.