Development

At Southgate Associates we believe that conservation and development are compatible philosophies, and have spent 30 years working with building owners to ensure that heritage buildings are adapted and reused in a sympathetic manner. We believe in delivering comfortable homes, excellent business premises and functional public buildings, but in a manner which simultaneously protects the heritage value of the buildings in question.

We work with planners and local authorities to agree best-practice changes to historic buildings on behalf of our clients, whether building an extension to a vernacular thatched cottage, altering a castle, redesigning the city centre around a few heritage buildings or adapting/reusing historic buildings for incorporation into an expanding University campus. Our work can involve delivering traditional forms of alteration and extension, complete with classical detailing, or involve highly modernist interventions.

Development

Services: 

  • Providing design solutions and assistance with planning permission for urban development within historically sensitive areas.
  • Surveying and assessing heritage significance of historic structures and areas for planning permission, heritage/architectural impact assessments etc.
  • Providing design solutions and strategies for the sensitive development of historic structures to best practice standards.
  • Member of design team with client, engineers/architects at design stage to ensure best practice conservation guidelines are incorporated.
  • Provide the necessary archaeological assistance to satisfy local authority and/or state safeguards that no damage shall be done to vulnerable archaeological fabric.
  • Project manage smaller-scale alterations and extensions.
  • Provide conservation specialism within design teams on multi-million Euro developments that involve heritage buildings and heritage landscapes.
Development
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Shandon

Regeneration of Urban Communities
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Kingston College Mitchelstown

Addressing vacancy as a result of building deterioration
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Victoria Hotel, St. Patrick's Street - Eason's Book Shop

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Honan Chapel

Conservation of the Honan Chapel – Conservation of churches and cathedrals
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Ballincollig Town Centre & Barrack Square

Large Scale Development and adaptive reuse of historic structures
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Opera Lane & Emmet Place

Conservation Consultant to substantial multi-street development in Cork City Centre.
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21 Aungier Street, Dublin

Small Conservation Project to Aid Wider Regeneration Process for Dublin’s Civic Trust
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Temple Bar & Cork Historic Centre Area Plan

Heritage-Led Urban Regeneration Projects
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Elizabeth Fort, Cork City

Deliver Large Conservation Projects as Stimulants to Local Regeneration
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Dublin Port Company

Planning for Redevelopment of Sensitive Industrial Archaeology
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Connemara West Furniture College

Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings & Sites
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Farmleigh House, Dublin

Conservation Consultant to Multi-Disciplinary Design Teams
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New Building Service 1

Conservation & Development at Birr Castle

The Delivery of Classically Styled Alterations and Extensions to Heritage Structures
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New Build Service 3

Conservation of St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork

Conservation of Large Churches and Cathedrals.
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Blarney Castle, Co. Cork

Conservation and Development on the Blarney Castle Estate
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We deal with all manner of built heritage.

Southgate Associates can provide project management to smaller development projects, or indeed join design teams as conservation consultant to large multi-million euro projects. We have an excellent reputation with the various authorities which decide on granting approval for changes to historic structures, as we pride ourselves on working to best practice international standards as laid out in the Venice, Burra and Washington Charters.

As a result of advising our clients well, we have a very high success rate at helping our clients to achieve the necessary consents for development.

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