SHS - heritage consultancy

We combine archaeology, planning law, and heritage business strategy under one advisor — so your project moves from investigation to repair to income without the usual hand-offs.

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Assess & Plan

Every project starts with a plain answer: what you need, what it costs, within 48 hours. We investigate what you've got, what's wrong, and what it takes to make it viable.

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Repair & Reuse

We help you navigate the consents, find the grants, and manage the work — so your building is repaired properly and ready for a new life, not just patched up.

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For Homeowners

Extending or renovating a period or listed home?

Get a straight, fixed-fee answer before you commit to architects, insurance, or a planning application that could be refused. We combine archaeology and planning law under one advisor, so you get one clear answer, not a referral to someone else.

Rapid heritage screening, 48 hours
Fixed-fee heritage statements
Listed building consent advice
Retrofit vs. conservation guidance
Sale-readiness heritage checks
No surprise invoices

Services

Every project starts by establishing and securing the heritage value — producing a clear record of significance that can be used, cited, and built on. That is Assess. Once the value is locked in, we turn it into income through experiences people pay to join, visit, or hire. That is Build. Browse all services below, or filter by stage.

DBA
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Light DBA + significance statement. Always produces a written, reusable report and digital assets.

Statement
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Heritage Statement / light HIA for planning or consent. Output is a citable document plus narrative content.

Nomination
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Local List nomination or Neighbourhood Plan evidence. Creates official recognition and a lasting public record.

Oral History
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Oral history + digitisation packages. Creates primary source material and lasting digital assets.

Recording
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Building / landscape / object recording that produces interpretation-ready output (photos, measured drawings, stories, provenance).

Survey
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Geophysical or non-intrusive survey only when it generates mappable, story-rich data that can be used publicly.

Tours
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Guided trails, tours, and private hire. Turns secured heritage into regular income.

Education
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Education programmes for schools and adults. Converts heritage knowledge into booked income.

Visitor Days
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Visitor days, events, pop-ups and memberships. Creates direct income from people experiencing the heritage.

Interpretation
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Interpretation products (panels, apps, audio, AR) sold or licensed. Turns secured content into commercial products.

Brand
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Brand and content packages. Turns significance into marketable identity and reusable content.

Experiences
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Corporate experiences, venue hire, merchandising. Additional commercial routes from secured heritage.

Restoration & Reuse
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Advice on acquiring, restoring, and repurposing historic buildings. Helps developers and community groups bring old buildings back into use.

PhD-level archaeological expertise.

Technical authority with clients and heritage bodies, from desk-based research through to fieldwork — the foundation every assessment and report is built on.

Desk-based assessment & HER research

Full review of the Historic Environment Record and mapping before any site visit or report begins.
Significance & impact assessment

Establishing what makes a site significant, and how a proposal actually changes that.
Site survey & fieldwork supervision

On-the-ground work carried out and supervised to CIfA methodology.
CIfA-accredited methodology

Every report follows the professional standard clients and councils expect to see.