Squire Heritage Consulting
Heritage consultancy specialising in historic buildings, adaptive reuse, and development within historic contexts.
Squire Heritage Consulting provides specialist heritage, conservation and townscape advice for projects involving listed buildings, conservation areas and the wider historic environment.
Who We Help
Property Owners
Advice on listed buildings, conservation areas, repairs, alterations, extensions and adaptive reuse.
Architects & Design Teams
Heritage and townscape advice to inform design development, pre-application discussions and planning submissions.
Developers
Heritage assessment and strategic advice for residential and commercial development, regeneration and sites within sensitive historic contexts.
Planning Consultants
Specialist heritage evidence supporting applications, negotiations and planning appeals.
What We Do
Development in Historic Contexts
Heritage and townscape advice to inform new development and design in historic settings.
Townscape & Regeneration
Heritage and townscape advice for larger developments, urban sites and regeneration projects.
Appeals & Expert Advice
Heritage Statements, Heritage Impact Assessments, pre-application advice and planning appeals.
Conservation Management
The long-term management of historic buildings and places, including conservation plans and management strategies.
What Do You Need Help With?
How We Do It — A Heritage-Led Approach to Change
Understanding a building or place is the starting point for managing change successfully.
We use historic research, building investigation and townscape analysis to understand what is important, where change can be accommodated and where greater care is required. This provides a clear basis for design decisions and helps proposals respond positively to their historic context.
Our involvement often begins at feasibility or pre-application stage, allowing heritage considerations to inform proposals as they develop. We work collaboratively with architects, planners and clients to refine scale, massing, layout, materials and detailed interventions before preparing the Heritage Statements and Impact Assessments required to support planning and listed building applications.
Heritage assessment is most effective when it contributes to the development of a scheme rather than simply justifying it afterwards.
This approach applies equally to the sympathetic alteration and improvement of historic buildings in continuing use, their adaptive reuse for new purposes and development in historic contexts.