Heritage Consultancy

Our team offers a broad range of heritage related services for clients seeking to conserve and celebrate sites, restore assets or deliver new development in and around historic places. 

We operate across the UK and internationally and have a strong understanding of relevant policy, guidance and different approaches to heritage management around the world.

Core services include:

Working with developers and local planning authorities we provide a range of heritage services to support the delivery and management of development in both urban and rural contexts.

We work across a range of sectors and development types including residential and commercial development, tall buildings, renewable energy, infrastructure and visitor facilities.

Our services include:

• Initial analysis and advice on development proposals and sites

• Heritage statements to support planning applications

• Heritage impact assessments and environmental statements for major developments

• Setting analysis for key sites to guide future development and allocations

• Listed Building Consent for physical changes to assets and their curtilages; and

• Scheduled Monument Consent for works

• Strategic heritage planning studies to inform Local Plan preparation

Our team also provide Expert Witness services for heritage matters. We have a particular track-record in addressing proposals that may affect the setting of important heritage assets, including World Heritage Sites.

We have a long track-record of delivering conservation plans and management plans for important historic places. These have often been prepared to support applications for Lottery funding, or to enable landowners to better realise the potential of their assets.

Our work consistently seeks to balance the physical conservation of an assets, with the celebration of its social history and its long-term continued sustainable use. 

We have a particular reputation for developing bespoke tailored plans that address the particular needs of a site, or their funders. This includes a body of work for living collections.

Selected examples of our work include:

• Chelsea Physic Garden – Living Collections Conservation Plan for a NLHF bid

• Brighton Royal Pavilion Garden – Conservation Plan and Masterplan for NLHF funded restoration project

• RHS Wisley - Conservation Plan and MMP for NLHF project

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew WHS – Site-wide Conservation Plan

• Deans Court – Heritage Management Plan for IHT purposes

• Newhaven Fort – Conservation Plan to guide re-use and rejuvenation

• Jodrell Bank Observatory WHS – Conservation Plan to support long-term restoration and re-use

Enabling visitors to explore and enjoy heritage sites provides opportunities to engage people with our shared past and deliver social and economic benefits for local communities.

Doing this is a manner that safeguards the sites and delivers an outstanding experience is a challenge for all sites, particularly as visitor numbers increase and patterns of visitor behaviour change.

We regularly work with clients to unlock these issues and create bold proposals for the sustainable experience of sensitive heritage sites across the world. This includes work for:

• Aflaj WHS, Oman

• AlUla heritage sites, KSA

• Dumbarton Castle, Scotland

• Hughenden Manor and Estate, Buckinghamshire

• Jazierah Al Hamra Heritage Village, UAE

• Liverpool waterfront WHS

• Orkney WHS

• Runnymede (site of Magna Carta)

• Stonehenge WHS

For UK sites, parks and attractions the National Lottery is a key source of capital and operational funding. We work with a range of clients to deliver successful funding bids, offering a range of services including:

• Strategic shaping of projects and funding bids

• Options and feasibility analysis

• Conservation Planning

• Management and Maintenance Planning

• Living collections management

• Landscape masterplanning and design

• Historic Park and Garden restoration

• Community engagement and education planning

• Activity planning