https://www.heritageai.uk/blog Heritage planning policy, listed building consent practice and Vision to Value methodology notes. en-gb Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:29:00 GMT https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/why-vision-to-value-exists-and-where-the-hai-sohs-wizard-is-today https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/why-vision-to-value-exists-and-where-the-hai-sohs-wizard-is-today Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Giles Paul Shorter AI & Heritage Practice 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. https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/the-nppf-just-made-heritage-significance-assessment-a-formal-requirement https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/the-nppf-just-made-heritage-significance-assessment-a-formal-requirement Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Giles Paul Shorter Planning Policy 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. https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/listed-building-consent-refused-heritage-impact-assessment https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/listed-building-consent-refused-heritage-impact-assessment Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Giles Paul Shorter Listed Building Consent 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. https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/the-correct-order-of-a-heritage-led-design-process-for-a-listed-building https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/the-correct-order-of-a-heritage-led-design-process-for-a-listed-building Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Giles Paul Shorter Heritage Planning Process 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. https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/ai-prompting-heritage-practice https://www.heritageai.uk/blog/ai-prompting-heritage-practice Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Giles Paul Shorter AI & Heritage Practice 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.