Brixie Payne

Brixie has a background in heritage and museum studies, and a deep interest in the relationship between place, identity, and sustainable development.

Brixie’s work bridges academic rigour and commercial application, producing high-quality research and analysis to support applications for planning permission and listed building consent (LBC), as well as conservation strategies.

She specialises in historic research, site characterisation, assessments of significance and impact assessments, with her work informing a variety of documents including baseline heritage assessments, statements of significance, and heritage impact assessments. Her analysis of the significance of heritage assets, underpinned by robust historic research, helps to identify their receptiveness to change, informing areas where more intensive development may be appropriate and where a more sensitive approach is required. This understanding of the heritage constraints of sites also supports the wider work of planning and design teams.

Brixie has contributed to development proposals and design schemes for a range of public and private clients, helping to shape thoughtful and locally responsive schemes which combine commercial viability with an understanding of the sensitivities of heritage assets. Her site and historic environment analysis also informs advice to architects and masterplanners on the appropriate scale, massing, form and material treatment of new development.

She works with a range of clients, including individual homeowners – providing advice on listed buildings or changes within conservation areas – as well as private companies and property and housing developers.

Brixie is an affiliate member of the Institute for Historic Building Conservation (IHBC).

Key areas of expertise:

– Development management and heritage planning advice
– Conversion of listed buildings
– Development within conservation areas
– Producing built heritage impact assessments
– Spatial and contextual analysis