Lucy Smith (Née Jarvis) Email & Phone Number

Co-founder director of HCUK Group (2010), a company providing a range of services including heritage and archaeological consultancy, landscape architecture, ecology management, visualisations and town planning. Based on a fully home-working approach from day one, HCUK delivers independent and balanced consultancy services to the development sector, typically in the form of Archaeological DBA's, Heritage Assessments, LVIA's, TVIA's, Planning Statements, Environmental Impact Assessments, Preliminary Ecological Appraisals (PEA's) and has an in-house visualisations team. Lucy has been in continuous employment in the heritage sector since 2004, initially starting out as a researcher at Alan Baxter & Associates. She specialises in change affecting heritage assets and their settings, alteration to/conversion of Victorian hospitals and prisons, alterations and extensions to Georgian and Victorian townhouses, impact of new development on conservation areas.Lucy has a passion for high quality design and informed urban change. She is interested in towns, cities and urban culture and how we go about identifying the significance of our modern built heritage. She also has particular knowledge of post-war housing developments, new towns, tall buildings and Victorian hospital architecture. Lucy retains a strong interest and knowledge in art and collections from her days studying at the Sainsbury Centre (UEA) and following a year working for a private collector in Bahrain, cataloguing and establishing a museum of moving image and recorded sound. She also spent a year working as an art consultant and gallery manager in a commercial art gallery in Essex prior to beginning her career in the heritage sector. Lucy splits time living between London and Lancashire and in her spare time is a keen club runner with Victoria Park Harriers and Blackburn Harriers.Full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)Affiliate of the RIBABA(Hons) in Art and Architectural History & Museum Studies - UEA, NorwichMSc. in Building Conservation - ARUPGCert in Architectural History - The Bartlett (UCL) 2024