Richard Pollard

Richard Pollard

MA (Cantab) MA

Director

Richard is one of two Directors leading our Conservation team and has extensive experience of supporting development and change in historic places and landscapes, through consents support and negotiation, appeals, design advice, research and policy documents.

He is a published architectural historian with three decades of experience at the heart of the conservation world in the academic, charitable and private sectors.

Richard works on a very wide variety of projects, from masterplans and Conservation Management Plans to policy research and guidance, from universities and national museums to medieval cathedrals and historic cities, and from major public authorities, landowners and charities to private developers and owners.

Richard is also an acknowledged expert on historic railway architecture and structures, and has advised on numerous listed stations, viaducts, bridges and tunnels. He heads up our work preparing conservation area appraisals and conservation plans for complex places and for NLHF applications, including galleries, museums, cathedrals and country houses.

He is a trustee of the Spitalfields Trust and a member of Historic England’s London Advisory Committee.