Charlotte Stranks

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.

Her local authority work has included managing listed building consents, leading enforcement action, authoring Conservation Area Appraisals and Conservation Management Plans, and securing Historic England funding for the repair of listed buildings. She holds a PGCert in Building Conservation from Birmingham City University and an MA in International Architectural Regeneration from Oxford Brookes University.

Charlotte is based in the southern Midlands and is available for heritage consultancy work across Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire and beyond.

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.