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HeritageAI · Heritage Asset Onboarding

Congratulations — you have taken your first step to unlocking the potential of your Heritage Asset.

Your PPHA is complete. Now we prepare for the next three stages: Read, Respond, and Resolve. Together they take your project from initial assessment through to Listed Building Consent.

Stage 1
READY?
Complete

Your Preliminary Planning and Heritage Appraisal (PPHA) has been generated and delivered to your inbox. It identifies the risk level for your proposed works, confirms designation status and consent requirements, and sets out the recommended next steps — providing the foundation on which everything that follows is built.

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Stage 2 — Your next step
READ...: — Building the knowledge foundation
Next

Before any design work begins, we need to understand your building thoroughly. We start by setting up a shared Google Drive folder — a central home for everything we gather, research, and compile together. Your PPHA lives here from day one, and all subsequent information is added as we go.

Your shared workspaceWe build you a folder on Google Drive that both you and HeritageAI can access. It holds all the information we collect — documents you provide, research we compile, and the processed data that our AI reads and analyses. The AI works from exactly the same information you see; it is simply stored in a format that enables structured analysis. No mystery, no black box.
  • Photographic analysis of the building — character, fabric, and condition
  • Preliminary condition report identifying areas of concern or special interest
  • Building age and phasing plans developed from your existing drawings
  • Written assessment of architectural and historic character
  • Full planning history of the property and its site
  • Aged plans and historic maps from Historic England and other archive sources
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Stage 3
...RESPOND — Developing the design intent
After Read

Only once the Read stage is complete — and we understand the building well enough — do we begin work on the design intent. The Preliminary Statement of Significance informs every design decision: what can change, what must be preserved, and what the planning authority will expect to see protected.

  • Collaborative development of the design intent based on the building analysis
  • Proposals shaped by the significance assessment to minimise harm
  • Early-stage consultation strategy with the Local Planning Authority
Available once the Read stage is complete
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Stage 4
RESOLVE! — Through to consent
Final stage

With the Statement of Significance and design intent in place, we produce a full Heritage Impact Assessment — a formal document that measures the proposals' harm or benefit against the detailed analysis of the building we have just undertaken. Everything is then pulled together and taken through to Listed Building Consent and planning approval.

  • Heritage Impact Assessment assessed against the Statement of Significance
  • Design and Access Statement (where required)
  • Heritage Statement for Listed Building Consent submission
  • Full application package submitted via the Planning Portal
Available once Read and Respond are complete
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Enhance your historic listed building with expert conservation

Begin with a Preliminary Planning and Heritage Appraisal (PPHA) for £195. Understand your property's designation, consent requirements, and recommended next steps in under ten minutes.

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