Heritage experts delivering clear, trusted advice for historic buildings & places
Respecting Heritage, Embracing Change
We provide fixed price heritage expertise to support planning and listed building consent applications across the UK, helping projects move forward with clarity, confidence and credibility.
We offer two ways to get in touch, depending on the stage of your project. If you are ready to proceed with a specific service, you can Request a Quote. If you require initial advice before progressing, you can Book a Consultation.
Both routes provide clear and proportionate heritage advice tailored to your project
What we do
At its core, we provide heritage-led advice that helps projects move forward with confidence.
Heritage shouldn’t feel like a barrier, but it does need to be handled properly.
As an independent heritage consultancy, we help clients understand significance, risk and opportunity, so heritage considerations support better decisions rather than slowing them down. Our advice is clear, proportionate and focused on what decision-makers actually need.
We specialise in supporting robust planning and listed building consent applications through practical, policy-led heritage expertise, avoiding unnecessary reports, inflated scopes and avoidable delay.
Who We Work With
We work collaboratively with design and planning teams to ensure heritage considerations are addressed early, clearly and proportionately.
We help developers, architects and planning consultants to navigate heritage constraints with calm, balanced advice that supports well-prepared applications and encourages constructive engagement with local authorities.
Our role is to strengthen proposals through specialist heritage input to support it effectively through trusted collaboration. This approach helps streamline applications and reduce risk.
Services we offer
Our services are built on heritage-led assessment, defined scope and transparent fixed pricing, enabling confident, well-prepared projects from the very start.
Heritage Statements
Required where development may affect a heritage asset, including listed buildings and their setting. Our Heritage Statements follow national and local policy and provide clear, defensible assessments.
Listed Building Consent
Focused heritage advice to support listed building consent applications, grounded in an understanding of significance and appropriate change.
Early-stage archaeological assessments to inform planning strategy and identify potential constraints or mitigation requirements. Providing a clear understanding of site context, potential constraints and the need for further investigation.
Historic Building Recording
Undertaken where works may result in loss of historic fabric, with recording levels tailored to the scale and significance of the building.
Heritage Research & Archival Investigation
All projects are underpinned by detailed research, including archival investigation, historic map regression and GIS-based analysis.
Conservation Area Appraisals & Management Plans
Conservation Area Appraisals & Management Plans are prepared for local authorities and landowners using recognised methodology to support long-term stewardship.
Grant Application support
Support with heritage grant funding, drawing on direct experience of delivering successful grant programmes.
Why Aurora Heritage Planning?
Clients come to us for clarity, not complexity.
Calm, proportionate advice grounded in policy and best practice
Heritage-led thinking that supports better planning outcomes
Fixed scopes and pricing to avoid scope creep
Collaborative working with planners, architects and consultants
Honest guidance on risk, opportunity and likelihood of success
We focus on helping projects move forward smoothly, not firefighting issues that could have been avoided earlier.
Selected projects & case studies
Our work spans individual listed buildings, complex historic estates, conservation areas and landscapes.
Our case studies focus on process as well as outcomes, demonstrating how early heritage advice supports successful, well-designed schemes.
From complex heritage sites to commercial developments, our work shows how informed heritage advice supports better design, clearer applications and more constructive decision-making.
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