UK – Compliance Archaeology & Environmental Impact Assessments
World-leading Heritage Consulting And Environmental Services
Achieve regulatory compliance and keep your major development project on track.
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We have the industry experience and resourcing capacity to mobilise at scale and meet your regulatory requirements.
Our world-leading heritage experts use sophisticated project management to deliver efficient, high-quality consulting. We bridge academic rigor and commercial efficiency, ensuring heritage solutions that exceed compliance. As the largest firm in our field, we help projects meet strict preservation standards – on time and on budget. Our mission is to support modern development while preserving the historical legacy of communities around the world.
Our Services
We collaborate seamlessly with you and your stakeholders, providing a full suite of archaeology and heritage services that stay focused on your goals and streamline your path to regulatory compliance.
Archaeology
Terrestrial & Maritime Archaeology
Our highly qualified team of archaeologists employ advanced techniques and industry-leading technology to survey, document, and study terrestrial and maritime archaeological sites. This comprehensive approach provides our clients with unparalleled insights into heritage assets, adding significant historical value to projects and promoting cultural tourism by showcasing the rich heritage associated with these sites.
Archaeological Monitoring (Watching Brief)
With extensive commercial experience our highly qualified staff provide comprehensive archaeological monitoring that ensures that development projects across industries, comply with heritage preservation standards, minimizing impact on cultural resources and ensuring responsible development with the aim of mitigating risk and keeping the project on track.
Archaeological Excavation
Drawing from extensive commercial experience, our expert staff offers thorough archaeological monitoring services. This ensures that development projects across various industries adhere to heritage preservation standards, minimizing impact on cultural resources. Our approach fosters responsible development, mitigating risks and maintaining project continuity seamlessly.
Heritage Consultancy
Preservation Planning
Chronicle Heritage provides strategic preservation planning to support, protect, and enhance heritage sites. Our approach seamlessly integrates the contemporary needs of our clients while promoting sustainable development.
Spatial Planning
By integrating heritage considerations with advanced GIS technology, spatial analysis, and urban design principles, Chronicle Heritage delivers sustainable and culturally sensitive spatial planning. This approach enhances the value of projects for clients in urban development, environmental management, and regional planning, while promoting community well-being.
Master Planning
We blend visionary urban planning with technical precision to provide forward-thinking solutions that seamlessly integrate heritage into the design and implementation of masterplan initiatives.
Heritage Appraisals
Chronicle Heritage provides meticulous assessments of cultural assets conducted by cultural heritage experts. Utilizing archival research, architectural surveys, and historical context analysis, we promote the protection and accurate valuation of cultural assets.
Heritage Impact Assessment
Heritage assets encompass a range of elements, including archaeological features both above and below ground, historically significant buildings, and intangible cultural practices like traditional hunting methods. Through heritage impact assessments (HIA), our team assists clients in sectors such as construction, urban planning, and environmental management. We empower informed decision-making to mitigate potential development impacts on these assets, promoting sustainable project outcomes.
Historic Building Conservation
With expert conservators that integrate non-invasive diagnostic techniques, conservation science, and traditional restoration methods to help protect and restore historical sites and artifacts, Chronicle Heritage ensure the historical integrity is valued and retained whilst promoting cultural continuity and appreciation.
UNESCO
With extensive expertise in World Heritage criteria, assessment of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV), and international conservation standards, we assist clients in navigating the rigorous process of nominating and maintaining their projects for UNESCO recognition.
Paleontology
Academia, museums, and natural history institutions benefit from our team of experienced paleontologists, who enrich understanding with their scientific expertise. They are dedicated to advancing public knowledge and driving scientific discovery forward.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Our GIS services harness advanced spatial data analysis, remote sensing, and geostatistical modeling to bolster archaeological and heritage projects. We provide accurate and insightful data that optimizes site management and enhances research outcomes, facilitating informed decision-making.
Heritage Database Development
By constructing comprehensive heritage databases utilizing relational database management systems (RDBMS), metadata standards, and digital archiving protocols, Chronicle Heritage ensures clients receive well-organized repositories of both tangible and intangible heritage information. These resources support long-term preservation strategies effectively.
Mixed Reality Technologies
At Chronicle Heritage, we utilize virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and immersive 3D visualization to craft interactive and captivating heritage experiences. Clients in education, tourism, and cultural institutions gain deeper understanding and appreciation of historical sites and artifacts, enriching their projects with innovative heritage interpretation.
Remote Sensing Analysis
By employing non-invasive techniques such as satellite imagery processing, aerial photogrammetry, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR), we generate precise data. This enables us to effectively detect and analyze archaeological sites, significantly enhancing our ability to achieve project objectives.
3D Scanning & Hosting
Our 3D scanning and hosting services use LiDAR, structured light scanning, and photogrammetry to create detailed digital replicas of artifacts and sites that support research, education, and project planning, ensuring long-term preservation.
Geophysical Survey
Chronicle Heritage employs geophysical survey techniques such as magnetometry, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to document subsurface archaeological features. These methods provide valuable insights that inform project planning and enhance heritage management practices.
Reporting & Archiving
Through rigorous documentation techniques, we meticulously preserve and archive all project findings according to digital archiving standards and data management protocols. This approach supports sustainable heritage management and facilitates ongoing research efforts effectively.
Publication
Chronicle Heritage amplifies the visibility and impact of archaeological research within the discipline. We provide comprehensive publication support, ensuring that research findings are effectively communicated through high-quality reports, peer-reviewed articles, and academic journals.
Capacity Building & Training
Our tailored capacity building and training programs empower individuals and organizations with cutting-edge knowledge and skills in heritage management. Capacity building and training initiatives focusing on local content play a crucial role in enhancing a nation’s workforce capabilities and promoting economic diversification.
Environmental Impact Assessments
Our experts understand the systematic process of EIAs and how they are used to evaluate the potential environmental consequences of a proposed project or development before it is approved or implemented. Our goal is to quickly identify, predict, and mitigate any significant negative environmental effects while enhancing positive impacts.
Permitting and Regulatory Support
We provide comprehensive permitting and regulatory support for resource issues including streams, wetlands, baseline conditions assessments, special-status species, habitat assessment, and environmental site assessment.
Biological Surveys and Assessments
We can conduct the biological surveys and assessments you need to ensure your project complies with all relevant regulations. We can provide impact analyses, biological assessments, avoidance/minimization plans and measures, and mitigation solutions to help keep your project on schedule.
Waters and Wetlands Planning
We will lead your waters and wetlands planning and the management of water resources on your project site and provide any mitigation or restoration services that may be required.
Restoration and Mitigation Banking Project Services
We provide professional consulting services to ecological restoration and mitigation banking projects. Our expertise is end-to-end, from initial concept and siting to long-term monitoring and management of completed projects, all in accordance with the applicable regulations and with the unique requirements of mitigation banking.
Ecological and Nature-Based Solutions
We can help guide your project through any environmental compliance challenge with ecological and nature-based solutions. We’ll assess the ecological function of your site and help develop an effective, nature-based approach to prevent, offset, or mitigate the potential impacts of your activities.
Timely, effective assistance across the UK
Secure permits with a pro-active and trusted compliance partner
Chronicle Heritage is a premier heritage and environmental consulting firm with a proven track record of successfully completing large-scale projects across the globe and in the UK.
The experience of our expert archaeologists includes: High Speed 2, Crossrail, Silvertown Tunnel, Thames Tideway Tunnel, A57 Link Road, A14 Cambridge to Huntington Improvement Scheme, Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), Aberdeen Bypass North Link, National Grid OHTL Upgrades, Easington-Hatton Gas Pipeline Development, South Wales Gas Pipeline, Portsmouth Approach Channel and Harbour, English Heritage, Historic Environment Scotland, Cadw – Welsh Historic Monuments.
Realise extraordinary quality & unprecedented efficiency
Chronicle Heritage is redefining the future of archaeological field work. The fusion of heritage preservation with technology unlocks endless possibilities for research, education, and cultural appreciation. Join us in this extraordinary venture where the past meets the present and innovation knows no bounds.
Our technology solutions cover
- Aerial mapping
- 3D modeling
- GIS mapping
- Enhanced artifact illustration
- Augmented and virtual reality
- Enhanced feature mapping
- LiDAR
- Story maps
Leadership Team
Our international team has been involved in several large-scale linear development projects, including energy, rail, road, and infrastructure and are well versed with National Planning Policy Framework, English Heritage, Historic Environment Scotland, CADW – Welsh Historic Monuments, UNESCO, IFC, and relevant national and international policies.
Neil Fairburn joined Chronicle Heritage’s International Heritage division in 2024 with nearly thirty years of multidisciplinary experience in project management (IMPA) and design, with an emphasis on directing and executing heritage impact assessments, cultural heritage management plans, excavations, and initiatives aimed at ensuring the sustainable conservation and protection of archaeological sites. His areas of focus include UNESCO, ICOMOS, and European and world heritage management for mining and large linear construction projects. Neil holds a B.A. in History and Archaeology along with numerous professional certifications in project management and change management.
Neil Fairburn, B.A.
International Heritage Program Manager
Dr. Jennifer Tremblay joined Chronicle Heritage in 2023, continuing her successful career in research, project management, and stakeholder and community engagement. Since joining the firm, Jennifer has led archaeological monitoring initiatives, excavations, surveys, value assessments, and heritage impact assessments for dozens of projects in Saudi Arabia and Oman. She has also conducted archaeological fieldwork at UNESCO World Heritage sites in Nepal and coordinated heritage exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Nepal, and Taiwan. Jennifer earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Archaeology at Durham University and her B.A. in Anthropology at the University of Victoria.
Jennifer Tremblay, Ph.D.
Regional Principal
Dr. Julian Jansen van Rensburg joined Chronicle Heritage in 2022, bringing more than two decades of experience managing archaeological surveys and excavation projects. Julian earned his Ph.D. at the University of Exeter and his M.A. in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton. He has worked with the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage and the World Monument Fund on various initiatives and has published extensively on rock art, island and coastal archaeology, and maritime trade within the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. One of Julian’s recent projects is a multidisciplinary study funded by National Geographic on the population history of the island of Soqotra, Yemen, published in Nature.
Julian Jansen van Rensburg, Ph.D.
Team Lead
Matthew Astill became a member of the Chronicle Heritage team in 2024, adding to the International Heritage division over two decades of experience in heritage consulting and diving instruction. Matthew has participated in numerous marine, coastal, and terrestrial projects, conducting underwater surveys and managing the heritage requirements of development initiatives from offshore renewables to large-scale urban regeneration projects. Matthew earned his M.A. in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton, his B.S. in Marine Environmental Science at the University of Portsmouth, and his B.A. in Social Sciences at the University of Leicester.
Matthew Astill, M.A.
Senior Archaeologist
Dr. Tom Fitton has been with Chronicle Heritage since 2023 and brings to the International Heritage division over fifteen years of experience using multifaceted field surveys, geophysics, remote sensing, GIS, drone mapping, and 3D modeling to consider archaeological settlements within their contemporary cultural and environmental landscapes. Tom holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of York, an M.A. in Archaeology from Durham University, and a B.A. in Archaeology from the University of Southampton. His research interests include early medieval Islamic landscapes and the maritime landscapes and coastal settlements of the Swahili Coast of Eastern Africa.
Tom Fitton, Ph.D.
GIS and Survey Lead — International Heritage
Andy Miller joined Chronicle Heritage’s International Heritage division in 2025 bringing over 27 years of international experience within the built heritage, World Heritage Site (UNESCO, ICOMOS) conservation and sustainable development sectors, often in politically challenging environments. Over an extensive career, he has gained global expertise with a focus on the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq/Kurdistan, Syria, southeast Turkey) Central Asia (Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan), North and East Africa, and the western Balkans. Core attributes include high-profile international government liaison and advisory roles, complex program management and cultural diplomacy, whilst offering multiple technical skills including the preparation of HIAs, CMPs/CHMPs, EIA’s and DRMP’s.
Andy Miller
Team Lead
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