Heritage and Museums

Blarney Castle & Gardens – visitor experience planning

Blarney Castle & Gardens – visitor experience planning

Blarney Castle & Gardens – visitor experience planning Client: Blarney Castle Estate Blarney Castle and Gardens is a leading visitor attraction located to the north west of Cork in the Republic of Ireland. The site is home to the Blarney Stone, world-famous...

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Forty Hall Estate – heritage business plan

Forty Hall Estate – heritage business plan

Forty Hall Estate – heritage business development plan Client: Enfield Council Forty Hall Estate consists of a number of key elements: Forty Hall; the grounds including a walled garden and wider parkland; Forty Hall Farm; an organic vineyard; café and banqueting...

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Business Sustainability Plan Cambridge Museum of Technology

Business Sustainability Plan Cambridge Museum of Technology

Client: Cambridge Museum of Technology Cambridge Museum of Technology is based in an original Victorian sewage pumping station, which is a scheduled monument. Between 2015 and 2019, a project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic England and others...

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Heritage visitor attraction café feasibility study

Heritage visitor attraction café feasibility study

We were appointed by a local authority to identify and evaluate development options for an existing café at a heritage site managed by the local authority. The work included carrying out a review of the existing operation, a module of primary research with visitors,...

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Strategic Review of Five Cultural Venues in Torfaen

Strategic Review of Five Cultural Venues in Torfaen

Strategic Review of Five Cultural Venues in Torfaen Client: Torfaen County Borough Council In order to determine how best to re-set the operational relationships between Torfaen Council and the cultural venues/organisations in the borough, an independent strategic...

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Heritage masterplan, Cefn Coed Colliery Museum

Heritage masterplan, Cefn Coed Colliery Museum

Client: Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council Planning Solutions Consulting was commissioned by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council to work with the Council to secure the future of Cefn Coed Colliery Museum by exploring how the historical features can be...

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Heritage consultancy project – business planning

Heritage consultancy project – business planning

Heritage consultancy project – business planning Client: Southampton City Council PSC worked alongside conservation architects Pritchard Architecture at 22 heritage assets managed by Southampton City Council.  The heritage sites ranged from medieval wine vaults...

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Heritage Visitor Centre Feasibility Study

Heritage Visitor Centre Feasibility Study

Heritage Visitor Centre Feasibility Study Client: Kent Thameside Working alongside landscape architects and archaeologists we were commissioned to carry out a feasibility study for a heritage visitor centre based on on the links to the Roman and Anglo Saxon heritage...

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Heritage visitor centre business plan, Bennerley Viaduct

Heritage visitor centre business plan, Bennerley Viaduct

Client: Friends of Bennerley Viaduct Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund Planning Solutions Consulting was commissioned to co-produce a business plan for Bennerley Viaduct, which is the longest of only two surviving Victorian “lattice work” wrought iron...

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Funicular railway consultancy: Saltburn Cliff Tramway

Funicular railway consultancy: Saltburn Cliff Tramway

Client: Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council The Saltburn Cliff Tramway is a historic funicular railway located in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire. The award-winning visitor attraction opened in 1884 and connects Saltburn’s upper promenade with the lower...

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George Eliot Visitor Centre Business Plan

George Eliot Visitor Centre Business Plan

Client: Warwickshire County Council We were commissioned by Warwickshire County Council to work with Council Officers, volunteers from the George Eliot Fellowship and Griff House Preservation Trust to carry out a feasibility study and prepare the supporting business...

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