Conservation planning for listed buildings, conservation areas and the wider historic environment.

Charlotte Stranks is a Heritage Consultant with over a decade’s experience in heritage planning, gained across local authority conservation roles and private practice. She has held Conservation Officer posts at Coventry City Council, Bedford Borough Council and South Somerset District Council, and has worked in consultancy for Savills and as an independent practitioner.

She holds a PGCert in Building Conservation from Birmingham City University and an MA in International Architectural Regeneration from Oxford Brookes University, and is based in the southern Midlands.

Charlotte is also founding Craftgate, a new initiative addressing the skills shortage in the UK heritage crafts sector. Craftgate connects young people and career changers with short learning placements alongside heritage craftspeople across the UK.

From stonemasonry to lime plastering, the platform makes endangered building skills visible and accessible to a new generation of practitioners — building the pipeline needed to sustain Britain’s historic built environment.