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The Urban Glow Design and Heritage Ltd provides proactive and creative Urban Design and Heritage solutions through Professional and Personal consultation.
We help our Clients understand their Heritage Assets and provide Justification and Solutions for Sustainable Change We provide: Expert Urban Design & Heritage Solutions Unlocking Development Potential Heritage Significance Assessments Heritage Impact Assessments Conservation Area Appraisals Masterplanning and Capacity Studies Public Realm and Placemaking Expert Witness in Urban Design and Heritage Appeals Our Other Work Includes: Historic High Streets and Shopfront Design Guidance Neighbourhood Planning Support and Design Advocacy Community/Educational Outreach CONTACT: [email protected] [email protected] GDPR Note; Please be assured that any information we hold on persons is held securely and is only accessible to those people who need it to be able to undertake our clients work. We do not pass your details onto a third party without your consent. As a client of TheUrbanGlow we have a ‘legitimate interest’ in holding some of your personal data in order to enable us all to work effectively together. To assist with the management of the business we may contact clients by email or by phone or by letter. If you wish us to stop using any of these forms of contact, please do let us know. |
Recent Projects:
Telegraph and Argus Heritage Impact Assessment
Whitby Maritime Hub HIA and Visual Impact Assessment
Acomb Front Street, City of York Council
Heritage Impact Assessment Al'Ula Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Barton Upon Humber Non Designated Heritage Assets, Barton Upon Humber Neighbourhood Plan
Bishop Burton Design Guide and Pattern Book
Ellerker Neighbourhood Plan Conservation Area
Harden Non Designated Heritage Assets Assessment
Design and Heritage Statements for Conversion and New Build to Listed Building
Slough/Windsor Heritage Appraisal
Castle Hill, Huddersfield Scheduled Monument Heritage Appraisal
Aireborough Neighbourhood Plan Characterisation
Woodland Cabins Derbyshire, Green Belt/Conservation Area Design and Heritage Support achieved Planning Permission
Private Extensions Residential Clients
Expert Heritage Witness
Heritage Significance Report for Rawdon Cragg Wood, Leeds
Design Advocacy for Residential Scheme of 10 Houses in Conservation Area
Telegraph and Argus Heritage Impact Assessment
Whitby Maritime Hub HIA and Visual Impact Assessment
Acomb Front Street, City of York Council
Heritage Impact Assessment Al'Ula Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Barton Upon Humber Non Designated Heritage Assets, Barton Upon Humber Neighbourhood Plan
Bishop Burton Design Guide and Pattern Book
Ellerker Neighbourhood Plan Conservation Area
Harden Non Designated Heritage Assets Assessment
Design and Heritage Statements for Conversion and New Build to Listed Building
Slough/Windsor Heritage Appraisal
Castle Hill, Huddersfield Scheduled Monument Heritage Appraisal
Aireborough Neighbourhood Plan Characterisation
Woodland Cabins Derbyshire, Green Belt/Conservation Area Design and Heritage Support achieved Planning Permission
Private Extensions Residential Clients
Expert Heritage Witness
Heritage Significance Report for Rawdon Cragg Wood, Leeds
Design Advocacy for Residential Scheme of 10 Houses in Conservation Area
TheUrbanGlow Design & Heritage Ltd was founded by Director Andy Graham BA(hons) MAued IHBC. Andy is a well respected and well seasoned Urban Design and Heritage professional with over 22 years experience within both the public and private sectors. His grounding is in Architecture and Planning with a healthy amount of work experience as an Archaeologist working on several excavations around the country. His first role was with the private sector before he gained invaluable experience on the 'front line' of Planning within the ancient city of York. Following this Andy funded his continuing studies in Urban, Environmental Design and his ethos has always been to base future change upon a thorough understanding of the historic context of a building or place.
Andy then became a core part of the Sustainable Development Unit at Leeds City Council where he specialised in the fusion of Urban Design and Heritage Conservation within a very talented team of Urban Designer, Landscape Architects, Building Conservation Officers and Sustainability experts. This was further developed in his roles in Australia where he championed placemaking and heritage conservation within the State of Victoria. After other contact roles in North Yorkshire and with Historic England and WSP Andy now focusses on developing and growing TheUrbanGlow into a well respected boutique SME consultancy whose approach is honest. We will not compromise on our beliefs, and we will not justify development simply for the sake of it. We work on behalf of both the buildings and places we love and the customers who we value and respect.
Andy is also passionate about the lessons learnt from our historic environment and the clues they can give us to understand our sustainable future. In this regard he has published several papers on the sustainability of the historic environment. Andy is a full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and the Urban Design Group, he is a Design Council Built Environment Expert and sits on the Fabric Advisory Committee for York Minster and Ripon Cathedral. He is also the published author of York in 50 Buildings by Amberley Publishing.
His specialities include new development within sensitive historic areas, Urban Design and Heritage Site Appraisals, Area Masterplanning, Liaison with Development Management Planners and Developers and as expert witness at Appeals. He is passionate about helping areas manage their heritage in a creative way that protects what is important and enables places to thrive and maintain their truly unique attributes.
(PS - He secretly hates this photograph!)
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Andy then became a core part of the Sustainable Development Unit at Leeds City Council where he specialised in the fusion of Urban Design and Heritage Conservation within a very talented team of Urban Designer, Landscape Architects, Building Conservation Officers and Sustainability experts. This was further developed in his roles in Australia where he championed placemaking and heritage conservation within the State of Victoria. After other contact roles in North Yorkshire and with Historic England and WSP Andy now focusses on developing and growing TheUrbanGlow into a well respected boutique SME consultancy whose approach is honest. We will not compromise on our beliefs, and we will not justify development simply for the sake of it. We work on behalf of both the buildings and places we love and the customers who we value and respect.
Andy is also passionate about the lessons learnt from our historic environment and the clues they can give us to understand our sustainable future. In this regard he has published several papers on the sustainability of the historic environment. Andy is a full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and the Urban Design Group, he is a Design Council Built Environment Expert and sits on the Fabric Advisory Committee for York Minster and Ripon Cathedral. He is also the published author of York in 50 Buildings by Amberley Publishing.
His specialities include new development within sensitive historic areas, Urban Design and Heritage Site Appraisals, Area Masterplanning, Liaison with Development Management Planners and Developers and as expert witness at Appeals. He is passionate about helping areas manage their heritage in a creative way that protects what is important and enables places to thrive and maintain their truly unique attributes.
(PS - He secretly hates this photograph!)
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Associates:
Esther is a talented Historian ands Associate of TheUrbanGlow. She is thorough in her historic research and meticulous in ensuring her research is second to none. She has recently completed her MA in Buildings Archaeology and Conservation at the University of York and assists with several of our projects from Heritage Statements, historic research and, most recently, our assessment of Non Designated Heritage Assets for various settlements.
Esther is a talented Historian ands Associate of TheUrbanGlow. She is thorough in her historic research and meticulous in ensuring her research is second to none. She has recently completed her MA in Buildings Archaeology and Conservation at the University of York and assists with several of our projects from Heritage Statements, historic research and, most recently, our assessment of Non Designated Heritage Assets for various settlements.
