Consultancy
The historic environment is a key consideration within the National Planning Policy Framework, and its equivalents for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and sound advice from the outset of any project will help off-set risk, cost, carbon emissions, safety hazards and delay and ensure return on investment. As a highly regarded and experienced practice, we regularly provide:
- Planning advice
- Schemes of work
- Clerk of Works
- Scoping studies
- Heritage appraisals
- Historic building surveys
- Conservation plans and statements
- Desk-based assessments
- Setting studies
- Environmental Statement chapters
- Landscape appraisals
- Digital ‘reconstructions’ of what buildings looked like through their different phases
and more.
Having accumulated a wide variety of sector specialisms and a wealth of expertise in the use of geographical information systems we bring a crisp technical edge to our work that assists in developing clear and robust evidence in support of planning applications. From single building plots through to landscape-scale developments, our consultancy and planning team provides competitively-priced, high-quality services for all types and scales of development. Being business people ourselves we routinely identify how the historic environment can be used to add value to a development and add to its sustainability. See some of our client resources here.