Lucy Nicholson
Heritage Director
Team:
Heritage
Lucy is both a chartered planner and full member of the IHBC. Her breadth of experience allows her to provide invaluable heritage-led advice to clients. She is known for her pragmatic and client focussed approach.
Lucy has over 7 years’ experience working within the built historic environment. Her experience spans large-scale strategic land and New Town projects to individual listed buildings, farmsteads, townhouses and chapels.
She helps clients navigate complex, sensitive sites and is known for pragmatic, commercially-minded advice that keeps schemes moving through the process; whether that means shaping a design-led feasibility strategy at the outset, building the heritage case for a planning submission, or defending it robustly through to determination.
Her work regularly involves assessing heritage impact on large strategic sites and tall buildings nationwide, giving her a strong grasp of how policy and legislation actually play out in practice and how to use that knowledge to a client’s advantage.
Lucy is a experienced consultant and clients rely on her to represent their schemes at Design Review Panels, pre-application and Committee meetings, as well in discussions with Historic England.
Lucy is a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a full member of the IHBC.
Key areas of expertise:
– Heritage
– Listed buildings
– Heritage statements
– Built heritage
My background of law, urban design, planning and heritage has given me a unique outlook when approaching heritage projects. I approach heritage with a practical, can-do attitude and really enjoy helping clients find the angle which turns heritage issues into a good news story!