Client: Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council The former Pithead Baths site is a semi-rural site located on the periphery of Llanhilleth in Blaenau Gwent’s lower Ebbw Fach valley. On behalf of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council we carried out specialist consultancy...
Client: St Albans Cathedral Heritage Lottery Fund business planning consultants - working with Nick Stead a heritage consultant our work focused on advising the client on the business plan for this Heritage Lottery Fund application as part of a wider project. ...
Client: Sunderland City Council Working with Sunderland City Council, Castle in the Community and Friends of Hylton Dene we were commissioned to prepare the Hylton Castle business case for future development options. This built upon our earlier work which...
Client: Somerset County Council The Helicopter Museum is home to the world’s largest collections of helicopters (over 100), and has a rich archive of material. The museum runs a number of events during the year, including ‘open cockpit’ days. Museums are facing a...
Client: Surrey County Council & Hampshire County Council Constructed between 1788 and 1794, The Basingstoke Canal runs for 32 miles through Hampshire to Surrey where it joins the Wey Navigation and beyond to the River Thames. It has a continuous tow path and has...
HLF evaluation plan consultancy project Client: Leicestershire County Council Snibston Museum was a multi-award winning visitor attraction in north west Leicestershire, located on the former Snibston Colliery which closed in 1983 having run for 150 years. In 1992 an...
Client: Hawkins/Brown The Land Trust and RIBA launched an architectural competition to design a pioneering new visitor destination at Cronton Colliery in Knowsley, Merseyside. Hawkins/Brown were named as one of four finalists from more than 50 entries in the global...
Client: Planning Solutions Limited Working our sister company we carried out an operational review and prepared a business plan to re-open a Robin Hood experience in Nottingham. Our work included a market assessment, review of operational characteristics of the former...
Client: Emda Working as heritage business planning consultants in a multi-disciplinary team, PSCL was originally commissioned to carry out a feasibility study to support the regeneration of Pleasley Colliery, a Schedule Ancient Monument. We were subsequently...
We carried out a feasibility study and review of the tourism and leisure markets to identify the options for tourism development within the working Port of Sheerness. We were part of a multi-disciplinary team contributing towards a larger master planning exercise. Our...
Working with our sister company we identified an opportunity to re-open the former Bass Museum (Coors Visitor Centre) as an innovative heritage visitor attraction. Working as museum business planning consultant we re-opened the former Bass Museum as the National...
Client: Somerset County Council The Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum is home to one of the largest collections of steam engines and pumps, developed by the Westonzoyland Engine Trust. The main pumping station is Grade II* listed. The museum hosts a number of...
Client: Great Central Railway We were commissioned to work on a heritage railway consultancy project where we carried out a feasibility study to review and make recommendations on the operation of the Great Central Railway, a leading steam heritage railway visitor...
Client: Six Local Authorities and the Wales Tourist Board The Wales Tourist Board and six counties in North Wales commissioned Planning Solutions to assess the potential opportunity to introduce a pan North Wales heritage destination brand based upon the Arthurian...
Client: National Brewery Centre Marketing a heritage attraction - working with the onsite team we have developed and implemented the initial marketing strategy for the National Brewery Centre in Burton Upon Trent which re-opened in 2010. The National Brewery Centre...
Client: Charleston Trust Charleston is located near Lewes and is a site of international cultural significance and a nationally important heritage site as the home to the Bloomsbury group. Former residents included Vanessa Bell and John Maynard Keynes, visitors...
Client Somerset County Council The museum has been developed in the former wool merchant's house, a three storey, timber framed building which was built in approximately 1500. The building is listed and the museum holds a number of different locations with a focus on...
Client: Somerset County Council Somerset Rural Life Museum is located in Glastonbury and managed by Somerset County Council. The museum is set within a Victorian farm house and 14th Century Abbey Barn. Museums are facing a challenging future with cuts to core funding...