Archaeology and heritage
Development within the historic environment can provide complex challenges. Our expertise in archaeology, built heritage, historic landscapes, and geomatics makes it easy to navigate legislation and the consents process.
Commercially aware advice for sensitive development
By understanding the heritage considerations of a site and assessing their potential impact on a project, we provide commercially aware, sensitive advice to ensure the optimal balance between heritage and development.
With extensive experience across a range of sites and cultures, we provide pragmatic solutions to help our clients achieve planning consent, manage historic environment constraints and discharge relevant planning conditions.
We are renowned for our deep expertise in archaeology, built heritage, historic landscapes, industrial archaeology and geomatics, and have established an enviable reputation for historic development success.
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Our expertise
- Planning advice on historic environment issues
- Historic environment input to Environmental Impact Assessments
- Specialist surveys & studies
- Conservation/management plans for historic sites
- Archaeological written schemes of investigation and fieldwork project management
- Public inquiries
- Archaeological & heritage desk-based impact assessments
- Historic treescape restoration
- Townscape appraisals
- Heritage planning
- Aboriginal cultural heritage
- Innovative survey technology and digital solutions
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Delivering 300,000 new homes each year: solving archaeological challenges
Read articleEnsuring the expedient delivery of the UK’s much needed homes: Simon Mortimer, Deputy Operational Director for Heritage, discusses the top archaeological challenges facing developers and how to overcome them.
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