About
Neil England, Affiliate Member I.H.B.C.
HBA was started by Neil England 14 years ago. HBA has won numerous West Sussex Heritage awards as well as RIBA awards. Neil had been a consultant throughout his 45 year career even when he was the owner of one of the most highly regarded ornamental fibrous plaster restoration and manufacturing companies. As a Building Heritage Surveyor Neil has worked on hundreds of Historic Building restoration projects and is highly considered by his peers. Neil is a member of the Building Limes forum and an affiliate member of the I.H.B.C, the Institute Of Historic Building Conservation , a professional body for conservation practitioners and historic building and environment experts. Although a lot of his work is in the South East of England, Neil will take on commissions nationwide.
Our Services
Initial Heritage
Consultation
Heritage Reports & Assessments
Listed Consent
+ planning Submissions
We charge £150 per hour, including travel, to come and review your requirements, assess and understand your heritage building, and determine your needs, guide you to a desirable deliverable outcome
All of this will allow us to provide you with a good indication of our potential future charges for acting on your behalf.
Upon agreeing to our T&Cs signing up, either as a fixed fee or time chargeable we will, from the O/site appraisal/gained photo record raise the required documentation to advance the project. Be it a Heritage statement, a repair schedule, including method and materials, also repair guidance statements possibly with a section for contractor quoting against If required
Our in-house historian will delve into local records and research your building history, this is often a most interesting part (and vital for a Heritage statement) that we can submit to Planning and Conservation of your local authority.
Your building will probably be listed, whether grade I or II or II*
If you wish to make any alterations to a listed building planning consent must be submitted.
We can, with our appointed Architect, or your own, produce existing and proposed plans, submit, along with the prepared Heritage statements, all documentation needed to ensure we get you the result your looking for, - hopefully, approval.
