Britain is the perfect place to live for lovers of historic homes, with tens of thousands of characterful heritage buildings to be found up and down the land, but this also means that there is a patchwork of rules and regulations that can be hard to follow. Heritage legislation can be confusing, and even if your home isn’t protected or even particularly historic, it can still be subject to heritage constraints that apply to the local area instead. It may be newer than some of the UK’s more ancient cities, but Leeds is still home to a wealth of historic buildings spanning the medieval to industrial periods and beyond, so utilising a heritage consultant like Blue Willow Heritage for your Leeds listed building consent or planning permission can mean the difference between success and failure for your project.

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With years of experience in creating compelling and successful arguments in a wide variety of circumstances, Blue Willow Heritage has the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to create a high-quality submission that can turn a no into a yes. Thanks to our years of experience in the industry we have excellent contacts and relationships within the Leeds city region’s planners and conservation officers, so we can create a dialogue around your project that is constructive rather than adversarial. We represent you, but we understand the needs of the planning team and the building itself, allowing us to create a submission that serves all interests.

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With Blue Willow Heritage you get more than just the nuts and bolts of a compliant application, you get a consultation service that can help you all the way from the drawing board to handover, providing design advice and archaeological services like watching briefs to ensure that your heritage needs are as closely met as possible. By working constructively with all stakeholders from planners and architects to council conservation officers and construction workers on site, we can make sure that the heritage element of your project is turned from a roadblock into an asset.

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Blue Willow Heritage has worked extensively throughout Leeds and West Yorkshire as a whole, on a wide variety of projects from medieval barns and Victorian schools to modern developments and industrial sites. Leeds has a particularly rich industrial heritage, and seamlessly blends the old with the new in Holbeck and New Dock to create high quality developments like the Royal Armouries and the White Rose Centre as well as Victoria Gate and Wellington Place while factoring older sites like Kirkstall Abbey. We have a thorough understanding of local planning policies and conditions throughout the Leeds area, and are well placed to help with planning and listed building consent in Leeds. We also operate in surrounding areas, including in Headingley, Morley, Bradford, Otley, Wetherby, Garforth, Dewsbury and Wakefield, and all villages in-between.

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We adopt a heritage-led approach to every project, and can prepare and manage any and all documentation required to satisfy planning conditions or make a persuasive case, including listed building consent, desk-based assessments, statements of significance heritage statements, and historic building recording. So if you’re planning a project in Leeds that involves a heritage component, call Blue Willow Heritage first.