Recept HeritageHeritage impact statements
£1,250, including a site visit
Fixed fee within 30 miles of Northampton; £1,500 beyond that. The fee follows the impact to be assessed (size, massing, appearance), not the number of homes.
What's included
- Included
- A site visit to the site and its surroundings
- A search of the Historic Environment Record and the list entries for heritage assets nearby
- Which heritage assets the scheme could affect, designated and non-designated, and what makes them significant, including their setting
- An assessment of setting and key views, following Historic England's guidance
- The impact of the scheme's size, massing and appearance on that significance, in the terms the NPPF and the council's policies use
- Ways to avoid or reduce harm, to discuss with your designer
- A written statement for your planning application
- One round of minor revisions
- Not included
- Design work, drawings or visualisations
- Archaeological evaluation
- Representations, appeals or meetings with the council (quoted separately)
- Further rounds after a design change
- How long
- Stated when you book, from the date of the site visit
- Who does the work
- Every report is written by Peter Clarke, a heritage specialist with 40 years in real estate.
Need it sooner? Accelerated turnaround is available on every service for 25% on top, subject to capacity. Recept Heritage is not VAT-registered, so the price shown is the price you pay.
For a client or a scheme
Architects, agents and developers: send us the drawings and programme and we'll come back with a scope and fee.
Your own home
Tell us what you're planning and you'll see the fixed price straight away. Priced by your works, from £495.
A heritage impact statement goes with a planning application for new building that could affect a heritage place. It sets out what makes the heritage assets significant, including their setting, and assesses the effect of the proposal's size, massing and appearance on that significance.
When you need one
- A new building in the grounds of a listed building: a garden room, garage, annexe or new house.
- Work in a conservation area, where the building itself is not listed.
- Development near a listed building or other heritage asset, national or local, that affects its setting.
Work to the listed building itself, extensions included, needs a heritage statement instead.
Price
£1,250 including a site visit within 30 miles of Northampton (£1,500 beyond). A small conservation area job we can judge from photographs and drawings is £495. Works to a listed building and a new building in its grounds together are £1,500.