BEAMS Ltd
Built Environment Advisory & Management Service
BEAMS is committed to promoting good practice in conservation and championing design in the built environment
BEAMS is the trading company of the Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust. The company was set up in 1993* to offer a range of specialist skills in managing the historic environment to assist Local Authorities, architects, historic building owners and others within Hertfordshire and beyond. Today BEAMS continues this essential work and comprises a small but skilled team with a comprehensive knowledge of the conservation of the built environment.
Any profits earned by BEAMS are passed to the Trust for use in maintaining the Listed buildings it has rescued.
Service for Local Authorities
- Conservation advice on listed building, conservation area and planning application casework for Development Control sections
- Long or short term cover of conservation staff vacancies / maternity & paternity leave
- Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Plans
- Buildings at Risk Surveys
- Local List compilation
- LDF Conservation policy / strategies
- Article 4 Directions
- “Back to back” Buildings at Risk projects in conjunction with the Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust
- Historic Building Services for Building Owners, Professionals and Advisors
Conservation Advice
- Historic Building Appraisals
- Building Recording
- PPS5 Statements of Significance
- House Histories