BD9 PROJECT PREPARATION BRIEF
Reconfiguring a Heaton house while retaining important details

Prepared by ATR Developments Limited. You can use this with your designer or builder.
These are preparation prompts, not a property survey or a permissions decision.

Project address: ______________________________
Proposed work: ________________________________
Intended use / occupation: ____________________

For a house in Heaton or Frizinghall, a modern layout can be planned around retained stairs, fireplaces, joinery and stone features. Record what matters before deciding which walls or openings should change. A renovation brief should identify both the desired new spaces and the parts of the existing home to protect.

DECISIONS TO RESOLVE

1. Agree a retention schedule
Photograph features that must stay and describe how they will be protected or worked around. Include removal and reinstatement only where that is an agreed part of the design and appropriate to the property.
[ ] Gather: A room-by-room list of retained features and photographs.
Notes: ________________________________________

2. Check the whole structural route
Where a large opening is proposed, consider the structure above and below it with the designer. A wider room on one floor should not be priced without understanding how the change is supported.
[ ] Gather: All-floor plans and available structural or previous alteration drawings.
Notes: ________________________________________

ADDRESS CHECKS
[ ] Confirm the authority using the full address: https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council
[ ] Establish applicable permissions with the relevant authority and advisers.

PRIMARY RESOURCES

Local maps & character documents
Selected links from the council’s directory. Use the named area and boundary to check relevance to your property; these documents do not apply to the whole postcode.
Heaton Estate: https://www.bradford.gov.uk/environment/conservation-areas/heaton-estates-conservation-area/

Bradford Council
Use the property record and the mapped conservation area, rather than assuming the whole postcode has one designation.
Planning history: https://www.bradford.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-applications/view-planning-applications/
Conservation maps & assessments: https://www.bradford.gov.uk/environment/conservation-areas/list-of-conservation-areas/

Historic England
Search for an individual listed building. This is a different check from whether it stands in a conservation area.
Search the National Heritage List: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/

Resource review: 2026-10-16
No project cost, permission or availability is confirmed by this checklist.