Is my Royston home in the conservation area?

The conservation area covers the historic core, and its boundaries were drawn up in 1969 — Historic England records the designation as 6 October 1969, with the supporting assessment of setting, character and appearance and the townscape analysis approved on 27 March 2007. Being inside it rarely stops a project. Under paragraph A.1(2)(e) of the amended Part 14, what is withheld in a conservation area is equipment on a wall, a balcony or a roof enclosure that fronts a highway; a roof slope is not caught by that wording, so a rear-slope array is frequently still permitted development. A listed building is different: since 27 August 2026 a listed dwellinghouse sits outside Class A, so it needs planning permission as well as listed building consent. The council publishes the conservation-area map with an errata sheet, and we check your address against it.