Client: Sussex Wildlife Trust Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is a coastal landscape of outstanding geological, biological, cultural and heritage value on the boundary of East Sussex and Kent. The reserve is home to over 4,000 species of plants and animals, including more...
National Lottery Heritage Fund Business Planning Consultants
Audience Development Heritage Lottery Fund, RSPB Rainham Marshes Visitor Centre
Client: RSPB We carried out visitor and community research to produce an Audience Development Plan for Rainham, Wellington and Aveley Marshes RSPB Nature Reserve for a Heritage Lottery Grant Application. This represented one the RSPB’s first urban nature reserves. The...
National Lottery Heritage Fund Business Planning Consultancy – Longford Park
Client: Trafford Council Working in a multidisciplinary team, led by TEP, Planning Solutions Consulting was commissioned to produce a business plan for Longford Park to support an application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Longford Park is located to the south...
HLF business planning consultancy project Ditherington Flax Mill Maltings, Shrewsbury
Client: Shropshire Council Ditherington Flax Mill Maltings located in Shrewsbury is a unique and internationally important site which has recently been awarded £12.8 million in HLF funding. It contains seven listed buildings including the first cast-iron framed...
West Norwood Cemetery Heritage Lottery Fund – visitor experience advice
Client: London Borough of Lambeth West Norwood Cemetery was established in 1837. The Grade II* listed Cemetery is the second of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries located in London. The Cemetery incorporates over sixty different Grade II and Grade II* listed...
HLF business plan consultant, Houghton Hall Park
Client: Central Bedfordshire Council Planning Solutions Consulting worked alongside The Tourism Company to prepare the HLF Business Plan for a Round 2 Heritage Lottery Fund application. The business plan was used to secure over £2m in funding. The park includes...
Heritage Lottery Fund Business Plan and Operational Review, Snibston Museum, Coalville, Leicestershire
Snibston is a leading museum managed by Leicestershire County Council. Working with the internal project team we were commissioned to carry out a market feasibility study and operational review to support a funding bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund. Work included a...
Business Planning Heritage Lottery Fund Advice, St Albans Cathedral
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. ...
Hylton Castle Business Case, Sunderland
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...
HLF Evaluation Plan Snibston
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...
Heritage Lottery Fund Audience Development, River Lambourn Urban Restoration Project, Newbury, Berkshire
Client: Farming Wildlife Advisory Group Working with Resources for Change we completed a Heritage Lottery Fund Audience Development plan for the final 2.5km of the River Lambourn as it flows through Newbury, Berkshire. The plans will support a bid in the region of £1...
Margam Castle – feasibility study
Client: Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council As part of a National Lottery Heritage Fund project, Planning Solutions Consulting Limited was commissioned by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council to work in a multi-disciplinary project team to explore new uses...