Where protection concentrates
Westminster has eighty times as many listed buildings as Barking and Dagenham.
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| Series | Period or category | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Westminster | 4,014 | listed buildings |
| Value | Camden | 1,968 | listed buildings |
| Value | Kensington and Chelsea | 1,349 | listed buildings |
| Value | Islington | 1,049 | listed buildings |
| Value | Lambeth | 953 | listed buildings |
| Value | Southwark | 919 | listed buildings |
| Value | Tower Hamlets | 916 | listed buildings |
| Value | Richmond upon Thames | 817 | listed buildings |
| Value | Barnet | 651 | listed buildings |
| Value | City of London | 637 | listed buildings |
| Value | Hackney | 555 | listed buildings |
| Value | Greenwich | 540 | listed buildings |
| Value | Hounslow | 518 | listed buildings |
| Value | Hillingdon | 438 | listed buildings |
| Value | Bromley | 412 | listed buildings |
| Value | Lewisham | 367 | listed buildings |
| Value | Wandsworth | 312 | listed buildings |
| Value | Ealing | 308 | listed buildings |
| Value | Enfield | 301 | listed buildings |
| Value | Harrow | 295 | listed buildings |
| Value | Haringey | 288 | listed buildings |
| Value | Hammersmith and Fulham | 268 | listed buildings |
| Value | Merton | 243 | listed buildings |
| Value | Sutton | 209 | listed buildings |
| Value | Croydon | 179 | listed buildings |
| Value | Kingston upon Thames | 163 | listed buildings |
| Value | Havering | 146 | listed buildings |
| Value | Redbridge | 134 | listed buildings |
| Value | Newham | 125 | listed buildings |
| Value | Waltham Forest | 118 | listed buildings |
| Value | Bexley | 114 | listed buildings |
| Value | Brent | 94 | listed buildings |
| Value | Barking and Dagenham | 48 | listed buildings |
Methodology
Listed buildings per borough from Historic England's national list via planning.data.gov.uk. This counts designations rather than area or population, so a small central borough with a dense historic core reads far above a large outer one — which is the point: the constraint on what can be built falls very unevenly. An earlier version used the listed-building-outline dataset and reported zero for Sutton; that dataset is polygons contributed by individual councils and measures which of them have done the mapping.
Provenance
- Source
- Planning Data (MHCLG)
- Cadence
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- Open Government Licence v3.0