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Planning permission in Hart

Hart District Council decides planning applications in Hart. This page shows the protected areas that affect what homeowners can build without planning permission, and the planning data Hart publishes.

Conservation areas

Hart has 38 conservation areas. In a conservation area, permitted development rights are reduced: side extensions, two-storey extensions, loft dormers and cladding all need planning permission, and many councils add Article 4 directions on top.

Read more: extensions, loft dormers, garden rooms and solar panels in a conservation area.

Article 4 directions

Hart has published 47 Article 4 areas. Inside them, some permitted development rights are removed, so work that would normally be allowed needs planning permission.

47 of the published areas don't say which rights they remove. Our checker tells people at those addresses to check with the council.

Directions listed by Hart:

What is an Article 4 direction?

National parks, National Landscapes and green belt

There are no national parks, National Landscapes, World Heritage Sites or green belt in or bordering Hart.

Listed buildings and protected trees

Listed buildings everywhere in England are recorded by Historic England, and the checker looks for them at every address. Hart also publishes 974 listed building outlines, which show exactly which building is listed.

Hart doesn't publish its tree preservation orders as data. If there are mature trees near your project, ask the council whether any are protected before you start.

What Hart publishes

Planning data published by Hart District Council
DataStatusRecords
Conservation area boundaries Published 39
Article 4 direction boundaries Published 47
Listed building outlines Published 974
Tree preservation order areas Not published 0
Protected trees Not published 0

Planning work on a home in Hart? Put a pin on your house and we'll check it against all of this.

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Data from planning.data.gov.uk, published by Hart District Council and national bodies under the Open Government Licence, last updated here on 30 October 2026. Hart District Council website.