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Heritage planning, in plain English
Policy changes, listed building consent practice, and notes from the Vision to Value methodology — written by SOANE Architects Ltd.
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AI & Heritage Practice
Why Vision to Value Exists, and Where the HAI-SoHS Wizard Is Today
Vision to Value began with an architect who couldn't show clients what he could see. Here's why the planning stages come first, and an honest account of where the HAI-SoHS Wizard stands.
Planning Policy
The NPPF Just Made Heritage Significance Assessment a Formal Requirement
In August 2026 the NPPF stopped treating a proper assessment of heritage significance as best practice and made it an explicit, formal requirement. A dismissed listed building consent appeal shows exactly the gap it's meant to close — and why HeritageAI's Vision to Value process was built around that discipline from the outset.
Listed Building Consent
Why Listed Building Consent Gets Refused for Lack of a Proper Heritage Impact Assessment
Conservation officers refuse listed building consent applications when harm to significance hasn't been properly assessed. Here's why it happens, and how HeritageAI's Vision to Value process builds the evidence base to prevent it.
Heritage Planning Process
The Correct Order of a Heritage-Led Design Process for a Listed Building
Vision, brief, independent significance assessment, then design: why sequence and objectivity matter for listed building consent, and how HeritageAI's Vision to Value process follows this order exactly.
AI & Heritage Practice
How AI Prompting Actually Developed — and Where Heritage Practice Is Genuinely Early
From learning to prompt well to a system that interviews the architect on site: a plain account of how prompting has evolved over the last three years, what's shared industry practice, and what's specific to reading listed buildings.