Heritage Consultancy

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Understanding place forms the foundation of everything we do. By understanding why a place is important, our heritage consultants enable clients to unlock the potential of their heritage sites. Reshaping and reusing our built heritage is vital to creating a more sustainable future and contributing to healthy, beautiful places. 

Lion's Bridge at Burghley House, the iconic Peter Jones shop in Sloane Square, Castlefield Viaduct in Manchester - demonstrating the range of projects where sensitive and thoughtful change has been successfully implemented through our team of expert Heritage Consultants.

We work with a broad range of clients, from homeowners and estates to local authorities and custodians of cultural and historic sites including museums and the National Trust, helping them better-understand their properties and undertake sensitive change to achieve successful and sustainable places. With expertise in heritage planning and across a breadth of heritage types from archaeological assets to twentieth-century buildings, we combine rigorous research with thoughtful analysis to find collaborative solutions for our clients’ evolving needs.

Our in-depth knowledge of and enthusiasm for the built environment enable us to set out the potential and value of heritage sites whilst conserving and enhancing their significance. This understanding allows us to provide expert and bespoke advice that inspires creativity and enables the best of the past to be retained, made useable in the present and continue into the future.

Our work includes:

  • Heritage Statements and Impact Assessments
  • Assessments of significance
  • Establishing capacity for development and change
  • Conservation management planning
  • Heritage masterplanning
  • Conservation area appraisals and management planning
  • Heritage planning advice and listed building consent

Follow this link to find out more about what a day in the life of a Heritage Consultant at Purcell

For enquiries regarding heritage consultancy, please Contact Us or our regional leaders:

Katharine Barber for London and South East UK

Sally Humphries for East region UK

Hettie Dix for West region UK

Joanna Bartle for North region UK

Jon Wright for twentieth-century sites and buildings

Tracey Skovronek for Asia-Pacific region