Listed Building Consent Specialists
Listed and Historic Buildings require a significant amount of detailed information to achieve success. We know what’s needed and have the expert knowledge and skills to create it for you.
It’s crucial to show that the proposals minimise the impact on what is historically important. This is done by understanding the existing building’s condition, its context and heritage significance and showing how changes have minimal effect on that.
In order to achieve applications usually want some of, and we can provide, Condition Surveys, Statements of Heritage Significance, Heritage Impact Assessment, and Design and Access Statements, as required to achieve Planning and Listed Building Consents.
A range of ecological surveys and reports, archaeological reports, detail drawings, structural engineers calculations, details or report etc are always needed and we provide them too.
Purchase Advice
If you’re considering purchasing a Listed Building and need pre-purchase advice, we can assess the building before you commit to a purchase, helping you understand its condition, identify significant defects, estimate likely repair costs, and highlight any constraints associated with its listed status. This can help you make an informed decision and avoid unexpected expenses.
If you’ve recently purchased a Listed Building and want guidance on the next steps, we can help you understand the building’s history, significance, maintenance needs, and legal responsibilities. We can advise on priorities for repair and improvement, develop a conservation strategy, and help you plan future works in a way that respects the building’s character.
Explore What’s Possible
With a Feasibility Study you can look at all aspects of the project and test the viability of initial ideas. It’s an important starting point, gaining a clear understanding your building’s condition, surroundings, constraints and heritage significance to provide a solid grounding for developing a case for what may be possible.
Alongside this information, a “Brief” setting out your requirements can be established and initial design ideas tested.
Once a clear Concept design has been developed, this can be assessed for Planning and Listed Building Consent requirements and buildability.
Achieve more through Design
We help you shape a clear, practical approach to the work, having taken the time to fully understand your ambitions and ideas.
With extensive expertise in historic buildings, we help you recognise what has heritage significance and what should be sympathetically repaired, or indeed what could be altered or adapted.
Where new work is to be integrated with the existing fabric to fully meet your needs, we draw on wide-ranging experience to achieve sensitive, well-considered designs that respond to the building, and meet the needs of planners and conservation officers too.
Shared Knowledge & Experience
Benefit from our seamless collaboration with our construction team. Often the disconnect between an architect and builder can cause costly headaches.
But at Corbel we work hand in hand with our Construction Team which means that you benefit from their input early on, ironing out problems, clearly clarifying costs and reducing delays to minimise costly changes – ultimately reducing the stress for you.
We share our knowledge and experience over the last quarter century, so you benefit by avoiding the errors made before. It’s particularly important with historic properties and listed buildings. There are guidelines giving the best and approvable solutions.
Making the Most of Your Budget
We can help you to understand what’s an achievable scope of work for your budget. It can be quite a challenge, but using our different process we help you assess costs and the viability of different options early on. We use in house people with hands-on experience and technical knowledge. You discover more, earlier in the process and remain in command of what is possible and control the budget.
