GEOFFREY LANE’S CV
The Historic Built Environment Consultancy’s Lead Consultant, Geoffrey Lane is a very experienced architect planner who established a Historic Built Environment Consultancy after early work in Local Government.   He initiates innovative projects together with assembling and managing multi disciplinary teams.

His Local Government Posts Experience included ‘Conservation and Design Officer’ to the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, the ‘Historic Buildings Advisor’ to Derbyshire County Council and ‘Conservation Group Leader’ to Norwich City Council.   In addition to the usual LPA conservation services he worked on establishing the definition of Historic Curtilage in Calderdale.   He was technical director to the Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust and held equivalent posts in the Norwich Historic Buildings Trust and the Norwich Historic Churches Trust.   He ran various schemes in Derbyshire including the Great Houses Scheme together with the County List of Threatened Historic Buildings which he managed proactively by initiating the County Council’s Historic Buildings Repairs Programme.   In Norwich, he managed both the re-listing of the City and the maintenance of its archaeological cover.  

In private practice he has had a very wide ranging involvement in listed building consent and conservation area consent applications and appeals, often acting as an expert witness.   He has had considerable involvement with Listed Building Enforcement and Repairs Notices.   He has frequently been called on to advise upon the curtilage of historic buildings and the rescue of important buildings and Great House Estates by enabling development.   He has undertaken Conservation Area appraisals and advised upon their implementation.