Caroline Sones

  • Senior Built Heritage Consultant
  • BA (Hons), MA, MSc, IHBC

Caroline joined Place Services as a Senior Built Heritage Consultant in August 2022, previously working as Principal Consultant (Heritage and Research) for an architectural practice specialising in historic building conservation and heritage consultancy services. Caroline gained eight years’ experience of researching a wide range of designated and non-designated historic buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral and other places of worship, providing heritage statements and heritage impact assessments to support applications for planning and listed building consent. Caroline also has experience project managing and co-writing a number of Conservation Management Plans for Grade I and II* listed National Trust properties and other historic places in private and local authority ownership. Prior to this Caroline worked in historic houses enjoying a successful heritage management career with the National Trust, with responsibility for buildings and collections management and conservation.

Caroline is now a senior member of the Built Heritage team at Place Services, responsible for the delivery of heritage conservation advice to local planning authorities as well as managing project work, including character appraisals and conservation area reviews.