Samantha is a Senior Built Heritage Consultant at Place Services and provides conservation advice to local planning authorities in Essex, Northamptonshire, and Surrey. She has over 15 years’ experience in the heritage sector and has worked on a diverse range of projects based in the United Kingdom and Ireland from large scale regeneration and adaptive re-use developments, to undertaking listing and scheduling assessments on behalf of local government and statutory bodies.
Samantha has extensive experience in preparing Heritage Statements, Heritage Impact Assessments, Conservation Management Plans, Conservation Area Appraisals, Options Appraisals and Feasibility Studies, and contributing to Masterplans, and Environmental Impact Assessments. Additionally, Samantha advises multiple local planning authorities on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and is an experienced expert witness.
Samantha is particularly passionate about climate change and the historic environment and has achieved the Level 3 Award in Energy Efficiency for Older and Traditional Buildings, an Ofqual regulated qualification in the retrofit of traditional historic buildings in the context of BSI PAS 2035 and PAS 2038. She has co-authored the ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ chapter of the Essex Design Guide, which was published in 2023, and reviews similar energy efficiency and retrofit guidance for local planning authorities. She received her Carbon Literacy Certificate in May 2023 and has chaired the Place Services’ Historic Environment Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Working Group since then.