Listed Building Consent Specialists
We have decades of experience achieving Listed Building approvals and Planning approvals. Listed and Historic Buildings require a significant amount of detailed information to achieve success. We know exactly what’s needed and have the expert knowledge and skills to generate it for you.
In the application for approval it’s crucial to show that the proposal minimises the impact upon anything that’s historically important. We do that by understanding the existing building’s condition, its context and heritage significance and demonstrate how the proposed changes will have minimal effect on that.
We provide for everything you’ll need.
Our success in achieving Planning and Listed Building Consent is high. For example in order to be successful, applications may require the like of Condition Surveys, Statements of Heritage Significance, Heritage Impact Assessments and Design and Access Statements.
A range of ecological surveys and reports, archaeological reports, detail drawings, structural engineers calculations, details or report, may also be needed.
Purchase Advice
We can assess the building before you commit to a purchase, reducing the risk hugely.
If you’re considering purchasing a Listed Building and need pre-purchase advice, we help 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.
Recently purchased a Listed Building and want guidance on the next steps?
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. We can help you understand the building’s history, significance, maintenance needs, and any legal responsibilities.
Explore What’s Possible
You can test the viability of an initial idea, by using us to create a Feasibility Study. It’s an important starting point, you can look at all aspects of a project and gain a clear understanding your building’s condition, surroundings, constraints and the heritage significance, which provides you a solid grounding for establishing what may be possible and developing a clear case.
We can create with you, a “Brief” setting out your requirements and initial design ideas can be tested.
Once a clear Concept design has been developed, it can then 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, award winning 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. That’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.
