Duncan Hawkins
Operational Director, Head of Archaeology & Heritage
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.
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
- Indigenous heritage
- Aboriginal cultural heritage
- Innovative survey technology and digital solutions
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Parc Busnes Porth Cymru
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Archaeological fieldwork completes on school development site
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Seaview Hotel redevelopment
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Golden Valley Mill
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Heritage advice for demolition, remediation and planning for the redevelopment of Ford Stamping Plant
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Heritage consultancy to achieve outline planning permission and address heritage requirements for the conservation of the ruins of a 19th century mill
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Planning and heritage advice for a new building at Kensington Palace
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Sydney Metro
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Coal-Fired Power Stations
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Lidl, Hythe
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Built heritage and planning advice for the refurb of a Grade II* listed Hotel
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Built heritage assessment for the redevelopment of Strategic Industrial Land known as Ruby Triangle
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Heritage assessment and statement for refurb plans at St James's Palace
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Tredegar Health and Wellbeing Centre
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National Broadband Network
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The Metro Tunnel Project
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Western Sydney Airport
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Fitzroy Crossing Cemetery
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Inland Rail
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Ashchurch Factory Outlet Centre
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Greenwich Peninsula
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Heathland Wind Farm
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Moy wind farm
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Archaeological works to support a rebuild and remodel planning application for a period property in London
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Archaeological support and excavation mitigation for a reconstruction project in London
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Built heritage assessment for the refurbishment of Grade II listed building Grace Hall
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