Historic Towns Forum

Aaron Evans Architects Ltd is an established practice in the World Heritage City of Bath, providing professional architectural, conservation, urban design and master planning services to both public and private sector clients, on projects throughout the UK. The practice is renowned for imaginative, sustainable and cost effective solutions.

Addagrip Surface Treatments Ltd is a resin manufacturing and formulating company. Environmental considerations are important to us and our ongoing programme of research and development is continually striving to develop a product range that is as environmentally friendly as possible.

Working in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire, our clients are private individuals, church bodies, trusts, societies, small businesses, companies and local authorities. High standards of professionalism may be taken for granted, but it is our excellence of design and friendly ‘no jargon’ approachability that ensures customers return.

ACP is a multi-disciplinary historic building and landscape consultancy, established in 2001. Caring for the historic environment involving change and its management, our primary role is to bring understanding and ‘best practice’ solutions to this dynamic process, whilst minimising the damage that change can cause and maximising the benefits.

Architectural History Practice is one of Britain’s leading historic research consultancies. We specialise in delivering historical reports and conservation management plans for a wide range of clients – from government agencies like English Heritage to charities like the National Trust; from local authorities to private companies.

ASP Architects have developed a range of skills and experience in terms of building repair, conservation, planning advice, refurbishment and new-build; a personal and sympathetic approach is taken with each building and its environment.

Beacon is an independent planning, conservation and design consultancy, based in Cambridge. Our skills and experience enable us to tackle the most difficult of planning issues, especially those concerning design or heritage. We have a proven track record in delivering successful solutions for clients in time and in budget.

We help breathe life into places and spaces - from cities and regions to venues, attractions, heritage and countryside. We work with the people who shape them, invest in them, manage and market them. We're experienced, destination consultants who give expert advice on place-making, place marketing and the visitor economy.

BRE Trust Companies, BRE and BRE Global, are world leading research, consultancy, training, testing and certification organisations delivering sustainability and innovation across the built environment and beyond. We help our clients create better buildings and communities and solve problems with confidence.

James Caird practises as Caird Consulting, providing design, development, conservation and training services to local planning authorities, the development industry and private clients. He specialises in concept design and appraisal for new developments and support for those who propose and evaluate them.

Camlin Lonsdale are chartered landscape architects with specialist expertise in strategic masterplans and urban design. The practice has extensive experience of historic townscape in a variety of locations and has earned a reputation for sensitivity in design response to the narrative of place, concentrating on distinctive and bespoke public realm.

CED Ltd profile to appear here shortly

Centros is a highly skilled, experienced and approachable property development company based in London. We specialise in creating attractive mixed-use developments in town and city centres, which provide sustainable environments for people to live, relax, eat and shop. We enjoy very substantial financial backing from funds advised by Delancey, one of the UK’s foremost investment advisors in property.

Chris Blandford Associates is a professional landscape consultancy and specialist environmental planning consultants working on a variety of projects all over the world from offices in London and Sussex. With over 30 years experience, we pride ourselves on consistently providing a wide range of quality landscape consultancy services.

Christopher Garrand Consultancy profile to appear here shortly

CJDA Ltd are a street design consultancy, specialising in the design and maintenance of the public realm. Our experience has concentrated on delivering quality streetscapes and traffic related schemes in historic towns and localities. We produce national and area based street design manuals. We also run the Public Realm Information and Advice Network PRIAN.

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DJC1 Planning Limited is a planning practice, based in North Staffordshire, offering consultancy and training in spatial planning, urban design, regeneration, heritage and community engagement to public, private and third sector organisations around the UK, at national, regional and local levels.

Established over 30 years, DLG Architects has particular expertise in dealing with retail and mixed use developments in historic towns and listed buildings. With offices in London and Leeds, DLG has undertaken projects from Buxton to Bath and given new life and use to many under occupied or vacant buildings.  

gbs architects is an Oxford based practice with significant experience of working within historic urban environments. We use our extensive expertise to combine sensitive restoration of historic properties and the development of new sympathetic build, with the principles of sustainable, eco-conscious design and construction.

Guy St John Taylor Associates Ltd profile to appear here shortly

Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd provides specialist knowledge and experience of innovative solutions, such as shared space, for reconciling traffic movement with quality public spaces in cities, towns and villages. Clients include highway authorities, government agencies, developers, community groups and design teams in architecture, urban and landscape design, planning, regeneration, transport and traffic engineering.

Hawkins Eades Planning undertakes all forms of town planning work including planning feasibilities studies, supporting statements for town planning applications, negotiations with planning authorities, written appeals to planning inspectorate, district and county structure plan representations and enforcement and other legal planning matters.

Heritage Initiatives’ work supports local authorities in characterising urban areas, formulating plans and bid submissions for revitalising historic towns and villages, including bringing public parks back into life, amongst other services. Recent engagements have enabled us to work with local authorities across England & Wales in meeting their needs.

Inkpen Downie is a practice of architects and interior designers. The practice offers a fresh, open and efficient approach to design and is committed to achieving excellence through quality, a fact borne out by our numerous design awards and repeat or referred clients.

Transport planning and local government consultant

Julie Howard Partnership has, for 30 years, been restoring large old buildings. Renovating and restoring all types of building from hotels, merchant buildings, industrial buildings to residential properties, we have brought back to life and converted properties into high quality apartment blocks, homes, offices, workshops, factory and shop units and work spaces.

Keith Simpson & Associates is an award winning multi- disciplinary practice providing a wide range of services in the areas of planning and development, urban design & environment, strategic planning and architecture. We have a highly qualified and motivated team of experienced professionals who will manage any project from start to finish.

L&R Consulting specialises in tourism, heritage and leisure. With experience built up over many years, we bring together the needs of stakeholders with the needs of the marketplace now and with an eye on future trends. We work with clients to ensure recommendations and solutions recognise the differing needs of people and the distinctiveness of places.

Lathams is a multi-disciplinary team of design professionals including; architects, urban designers, re-use experts, building conservationists and landscape architects. Our work is often concerned with bringing renewed vitality back to communities, places or buildings that have suffered from neglect, have experienced decline or are perceived to be underperforming.

Lichfield Planning, an integrated development and environmental planning practice, combines high quality practical advice with innovative creative work. UK work ranges from steering clients’ development proposals through the complexities of the planning system to producing local development framework documents. Internationally, services include preparation of integrated strategies for the sustainable development of local communities, new towns and regions.

Mouchel is a consulting and business services group that provides many of the design, managerial and engineering services that support modern society, working with government agencies, local authorities, government-regulated industries and the private-sector to provide safe, reliable roads and railways, well-managed education and civic infrastructure, clean water, and cost-effective energy.

A company profile for Nash Partnership will appear shortly.

Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners is an independent town planning consultancy providing specialist advice on all aspects of the planning process. Over more than four decades the Practice has built up extensive planning and development experience. Today we are one of the UK’s largest independent firms specialising in development.

NJL Consultants (formerly Nicol Jones & Lomax) is a multi-disciplinary environmental practice offering landscape, urban design & ecological consultancy services to private and public clients.

Paul Butler Associates is an independent chartered town planning and development consultancy that provides specialist planning advice for public and private sector clients, based in a listed converted swimming baths, in the historic core of Salford, only a few minutes' walk from Manchester Cathedral and the centre of Manchester.

Pegasus Planning Group is committed to securing success for our clients. We combine the personal commitment of partners and staff with the best of modern practices and resources. We provide independent advice in all sectors of planning. Areas of specialist advice provided are town planning, environmental planning and urban design.

Placemarque is an environmental design and communications company dedicated to helping define, design and reinforce identity and locality for places. Its mission is to help bring people and places together through wayfinding, environmental graphics and identity.

PLB offers a complete range of heritage consultancy and design services, with all the resources to take your project from feasibility to fit-out. Clients select us for our individual solutions and teamworking ethos - every project is approached with energy, enthusiasm and a commitment to achieving your objectives.

Pop Up Power Supplies Ltd offers retractable service units that provide electricity, water and air supply to public spaces ranging from historic sites and market places to town squares and parks. A series of standard products is available, as well as bespoke units with dished tops that can accommodate different paving.

Powell Dobson Urbanists are Urban Design, Masterplanning, Regeneration and Planning specialists who recognise that masterplanning is as much about engineering, landscape and architecture as it is about planning. The principles of good urban design centre on the creation of a sense of place, and a recognition that the quality of landscape, the public spaces, the roads and car parks, the street furniture and signage, are all as important as the buildings. The challenge for creating a successful framework for the future of our urban areas will be to achieve the right balance between prescribing through design standards without losing the flexibility to allow change over time.

Resin Bonded Surfaces Ltd is a domestic & commercial supplier and installer of Resin Bonded Gravel, Resin Bound Gravel & Quartz Stone Carpet Systems. We work with Architects, Specifiers, Surveyors, Designers and Contractors creating visually pleasing, practical, hard wearing surfaces that enhance the living and working environments of those using them. These systems can be used in a variety of environments including Heritage Sites, Domestic Drives & Paths, Disabled Ramps, Pedestrian areas & Car Parks, Landscape scheme's, Regeneration Projects etc The quartz stone carpet system can be installed in any of the colours on the RAL colour chart and are ideal for offices, receptions, car showrooms, pool surrounds etc. We use the highest quality, most environmentally friendly UK manufactured resins available this enables us to offer a 12 guarantee.

A company profile for Richard Baddeley & Company will appear here shortly.

Springboard is a leading provider of automated customer counting services, delivering solutions across the entire range of customer generating environments: high streets, shopping centres, retail parks, conference, leisure and entertainment venues, transport interchanges.

St James’ Investments (SJI) is a town centre regeneration and development specialist concentrating on mixed-use schemes supported by major anchor retailers, working in partnership with local authorities and other stakeholders. SJI has become recognised for its ability to look beyond the original boundaries of a brief, leading to masterplans and designs which create a stepchange in town centre prospects.

SteinTec UK are interested in and knowledgeable about all aspects of pavement design, construction, protection and maintenance. We discuss and assist with construction, technical specification, practical skills training and site supervision. We are pleased to play a supporting role by providing useful insight and factual information upon which decisions may be based.

SureSet, as resin bound specialists, focuses only on resin bound surfaces, delivering innovation, high quality and in-depth experience of all applications and products. Ten years on, SureSet resin-bound paving is used throughout the UK by schools, offices, houses, local authorities - anywhere that high quality, durable, low maintenance paving is needed.

The Conservation Studio is a specialised planning and architectural practice that works principally for local authorities and other public sector organisation, such as English Heritage, the Heritage Lottery Fund and charitable trusts. We provide advice on urban regeneration, historic buildings and conservation areas.

TKB Southgate Associates is an Historic building and heritage consultancy practice providing a comprehensive range of specialist services by an experienced multi disciplined team that includes archaeologists, landscape experts, architects, chartered surveyors, building and timber pathologists, structural engineers and project managers. Experience ranges from castles and cathedrals to thatched country cottages and urban terraced housing.

Turley Associates is a leading planning and urban design consultancy, operating nationally, regionally and locally throughout Britain. We provide planning, urban design and heritage advice for all scales of development projects, working on behalf of private developers, institutions, businesses and public sector clients.

Urban Aspect is an Urban Design and Historic Environment Consultancy advising clients on how to achieve high quality design on complex strategic area regeneration and new development proposals. The principal Tony Wyatt is an urban design practitioner with 30 years senior level public and private sector experience including independent national advisor appointments for CABE and the Home Office as well as the North West and North East regional design review panels.

Urban Initiatives business is to deliver innovative ideas and achievable solutions in complex urban environments for the public and private sector. As one of Britain's leading urban planning and design practices, we have an international reputation for being at the cutting edge of the current urban agendas that are shaping our towns and cities.

At Urban Projects Limited, we offer a total design and project solution for bespoke and dynamic lighting design. We are a creative lighting design consultancy and specify the right equipment for your project. We are also happy to arrange the supply and installation of your project.

As the market leader in the renovation and upgrading of sliding sash windows, Ventrolla’s unique specialised service ensures that not only is it possible to completely renovate these windows, but often the original can be very much improved upon.

Ward Hadaway is one of the largest full service law firms in the North of England with a reputation for quality, innovation and a firmly practical approach to meeting clients’ needs. Our expert lawyers are able to advise on a range of issues, and have a strong client base which includes English Heritage.

Willie Miller Urban Design (WMUD) is a Glasgow based creative interdisciplinary consultancy specialising in place-making and the design and regeneration of urban and rural areas. Established in 1996, the practice has grown to accommodate specialisms in planning, regeneration, landscape and community consultation, as well as our core disciplines of urban design and masterplanning.

WOODHØUSE - Between them, companies in the Marshalls group manufacture virtually everything needed for hard landscaping of the highest quality. Marshalls established Woodhouse Projects to help designers bring those products together, through the development of a catalogue of integrated paving, exterior lighting, street furniture and drainage.

_space environment is part of a design, build and operate group with over 100 staff working throughout the North of England and Scotland from offices in Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester. _space provide strategic urban design, masterplanning and landscape design services. The group also produce high quality architectural design in numerous sectors including specialist historic environment conservation. _space purpose is to make life better.