June Hargreaves MBE (b.1937) is a British town planner and heritage conservationist.
[1][2] Hargreaves grew up in Cowling, West Yorkshire and attended Keighley Girls’ Grammar School.
She trained as a planning officer for West Riding County Council in Skipton.
In this role she found the destruction of historic buildings in the city as problematic, prompting her to write a book on conservation.
David Fraser, then chief executive of York Civic Trust described June as "the single most influential voice in England calling for the creation of Conservation Areas... At a time when women were not regarded as equals in the workplace, she marshalled the arguments; expressed them eloquently in her seminal publication; and personally convinced senior civil servants and government ministers to change the law.