Our heritage consultants offer a comprehensive suite of heritage services to ensure the seamless progression of your project from start to finish. If you’re unsure which services would suit your needs, please reach out to our team below.
Heritage Consultancy
We are experts in the Built Environment, proactively helping our clients navigate through projects regulated by heritage and conservation protection.
Heritage Impact Assessments
If you are looking to purchase a listed building or a property, then a pre-acquisition heritage impact assessment can inform values and highlight the potential.
Heritage Feasibility
Understanding a protected building or areas significance is essential to informing how development can progress.
Feasibility
Studies
Knowing the ins and out’s before purchasing a site is essential as it can have a dramatic impact on price. Our team are on hand to help.
Listed Buildings
With over 375,000 listed buildings in England. These create a sense of place and make a valuable historic, architectural, aesthetic and cultural contribution.
Conservation Assessments
We can help you to understand the requirements of the local planning authority and can liaise and negotiate on your behalf.
NDHA’s
The National Planning Policy Framework allows local authorities to identify structures of heritage significance. These are then included on a Local Listing List.
Listed Buildings
With innovation and creativity you can make the most of your Listed Building.
Behind every historic building is a story. We use our expertise and knowledge to work with our clients to unlock this history to make better places.
Historic Buildings
We investigate and advise on how best to enhance spaces
By utilising years of experience we complete detailed investigations into the historic landscape, both above and below ground. We focus on using innovation and creatitvity to give our clients the very best chance of success.
Meet The Team
The driving force behind HEA is the ability and experience of our specialist team.
View our full team by clicking below.
Andrew is a full member of the Institute Historic Buildings Conservation (IHBC) with nearly 20 years’ experience of work within the heritage, design and planning sectors.
Andrew has worked for Local Authorities, as a lead heritage and design advisor, as well as for Historic England and some of the UK’s biggest engineering consultancies. He has also worked in the commercial archaeological sector, managing archaeological projects and specialising in buildings archaeology and environmental archaeology. This has given
Andrew has worked for Local Authorities, as a lead heritage and design advisor, as well as for Historic England and some of the UK’s biggest engineering consultancies. He has also worked in the commercial archaeological sector, managing archaeological projects and specialising in buildings archaeology and environmental archaeology. This has given
Andrew a cross-disciplinary understanding and knowledge of the heritage and development sector, with particular expertise in the provision of strategic advice and practical research in relation to development in historic contexts, the assessment of heritage values and experience of the sustainability and climate change agenda.
Andrew also has extensive experience of historic buildings conservation, in particular managing change to listed buildings and conservation areas and the delivery of new design within sensitive contexts.
As a motivated and adaptable professional, with a creative and constructive approach to work, Andrew is able to provide clients with robust, informed advice, and a solution led approach to support proposals from inception to completion.
James is the HEA Team Director, overseeing the consultancy team with operational expertise and leadership. A full Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA), James has been dedicated to archaeological and heritage consultancy since 2014, following his initial career as a field archaeologist.
James has worked on the archaeological and heritage requirements of a wide array of development sites, from large-scale projects to small home extensions, logistics hubs, educational and health facilities, and infrastructure projects. His extensive experience includes:
Desk-based reporting
Input to Environmental Impact Assessments
Completion of Environmental Statement Chapters
Project management of archaeological works from inception to completion
James’s client base is diverse, including development firms, land agents, project management firms, specialist planning firms, and public sector companies. His comprehensive understanding of the archaeological and heritage sector and its integration with the UK planning system, combined with his pragmatic and commercial approach, ensures the successful completion of archaeological and heritage work to support development projects.
With a strong background in both fieldwork and consultancy, James is adept at navigating the complexities of archaeological and heritage requirements, providing valuable insights and effective solutions for a range of development projects.
Jo is a full member of the Institute Historic Buildings Conservation (IHBC) with nearly 30 years of experience working in the heritage, design and planning sectors. Jo has worked for several Local Authorities, as a lead conservation advisor and at a high level for various planning and heritage consultancies in the private sector.
As an expert Built Heritage Consultant, Jo has a proven track record and well-developed technical knowledge of listed buildings; setting issues and new development in the historic environment. She has a particular interest in new development within historic contexts in urban areas and champions managing change in the historic environment through excellence in design.
