Heritage Consultancy

We love our historic buildings and places, but they don’t always work well for modern needs. Our professional expertise is in researching, assessing, and understanding what makes these buildings and places special or significant, and how to make changes without harming that significance.

This understanding and passion for our built heritage will support you to unlock the potential of your historic buildings, whether they are Grade I, II*, II , locally listed or non-designated heritage assets. We will guide you and work collaboratively with your architects, and advisors to make the changes that will help these buildings have a sustainable future, and for those who use them to thrive.

Our aim is to get the best possible solutions for our clients by providing creative, practical, and expert advice.  We can advise on how to make a building more accessible, improve energy efficiency and add sensitive additions as well as how to adapt buildings for new uses.  We also work to support where new development is proposed within a historic environment, for example within a conservation area or in the setting of a listed building.

Our services include:

• Advice and support for all grades of historic assets; including new build ‘in the setting of’
• Early appraisal and input into feasibility studies
• Assessment of large-scale regeneration, strategic site allocation, masterplanning and tall buildings
• Heritage planning and Listed Building Consent application advice and advocacy with Statutory Authorities
• Expert support through all RIBA work stages
• Carbon reduction & net zero heritage advice