Heritage

We apply experience and study to understand how the built environment has been created, from building to neighbourhood to city, and the networks of economic, social, cultural and political values that made it and that change it.

We can advise you on all aspects of building repair, reuse, change and redevelopment and the planning and technical demands each involves.

Our team includes registered RIBA Specialist Conservation Architects, Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (AABC) and a member of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association (EASA). The team is well experienced in the means available to make both new and historic buildings fit for the zero carbon challenge.

Understanding Complexity

The services we offer are extensive, from the evaluation and assessment of historic buildings for condition, value and setting to the change dynamics of urban neighbourhoods.

In the management of planning and Listed Building processes through consultation, design, the specification of works, construction procurement and implementation.

Our conservation architects work within a wide-ranging built environment team of regeneration consultants, planners, urban designers and new build architects.

All are working to make the built environment fit for the path to zero carbon.

Heritage Care and Change Processes

We understand where the main drivers for built environment change come from and the statutory and consultative processes established to manage such change well. Heritage assets such as listed buildings and conservation areas are treated as assets of the whole community and this understanding of wide-ranging value and value growth opportunity underlines all we do.

Design management

Because of our experience, we often act as lead design consultants on projects, administering, scoping, briefing and managing the contributions of a wide diversity of specialist consultants and craft skills.

This design management process oversight ensures the principles and objectives set for a complex project are kept in the foreground as each challenge is addressed.

Our team has managed projects on several hundred historic buildings, in a multitude of conservation areas, involving ancient monuments, historic landscapes and world heritage sites. Our conservation and regeneration projects have included castles and palaces, theatres and cinemas, MOD and education establishments, historic factories, seaside piers, cathedrals, churches and homes built over many centuries.

We offer specialist heritage consultancy:

  1. Expert witness in appeals and heritage planning advocacy
  2. Conservation area character reviews and impact assessments
  3. Listing reviews and certificates of immunity from listing applications
  4. Compliant listed building application submissions
  5. Heritage lottery applications

We work with private clients, public sector and trusts who own extensive properties and estates, offering a bespoke conservation service.

“We believe that heritage is an opportunity to create value. There is a subtle art in balancing the protection of built heritage with shaping the places of the future.”

Robert Locke, Partner