Services > Heritage Services

• Conservation Area Appraisals and Assessments: identify and characterise areas of special architectural and historic interest.
• Historic Building Assessments: is often required before planning permission to ensure that the historic character of a building is dealt with sympathetically if it is to be re-used or to ensure that a record is made before demolition.
• Buildings at Risk Survey: these surveys characterise local distinctiveness to inform planning and land management policy and guidance.
• Specialist Building Illustration

• Conducting Desk-Based Assessments:  these are often required as first stages of a planning application. They systematically bring together all known heritage information to make an informed assessment to predict what may be encountered on a given site.
• Conducting Environmental Impact Assessments: these provide an informed assessment and rigorously assess the likely impacts of the project and are required for larger projects.
• Drawing up Conservation Plans: setting out how to best manage heritage assets and assessing development proposals in their area.
• Carrying out Strategic Surveys and Heritage Audits
• Heritage Consultancy Services
• Heritage Site and Project Management
• Expert Witness for Public Inquiries:  we provide advocacy to support clients in Planning Applications and in Public Inquiries.

• Historic Landscape Assessment and Characterisation: They allow an integrated approach to understanding landscape sensitivity.
• Monument Condition Surveys: provides an accurate topographic survey and reports on the actual condition of sites so that any change can be monitored.