Welcome to southgate associates

The Art of Conservation.

30 Years Conserving Ireland’s Built Heritage

When Southgate Associates was established in 1990, it was solely a conservation engineering practice, but the complex needs of clients, projects and the regulatory environment saw the practice expand in a multi-disciplinary direction, to offer a broad range of heritage conservation services from a team with a diverse set of backgrounds, including engineering, surveying, archaeology, anthropology and planning.

A key area of our work involves the conservation of historic buildings to best practice standards, with an emphasis on maintaining authenticity through minimal intervention approaches, unless more radical measures are justified. In addition, we work with our clients to achieve sympathetic development, which make heritage buildings and landscapes more sustainable in the long-term.

What we do

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Conservation

Southgate Associates provide specialist heritage conservation services to those tasked with safeguarding and maintaining Ireland’s built heritage, whether public body or private owner.
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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.
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Regeneration

Southgate Associates have spent their 30-year history engaged in heritage-led regeneration processes, which have transformed heritage buildings and areas into important cultural and economic resources.
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Infrastructure

Southgate Associates works as heritage consultant to a large number of multi-disciplinary teams delivering infrastructure projects, giving guidance on works in order to protect heritage assets, but also offering solutions that unblock projects stuck as a result of heritage considerations.
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Community

Southgate Associates have long engaged with community and church-based groups in the conservation of the heritage structures which make each town and village in Ireland unique, structures whose role can be central to actively bolstering a positive sense of belonging and community.
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Planning

Southgate Associates offers specialist heritage services to various planning processes, whether urban master planning projects, multi-disciplinary design teams tasked with delivering planning consents for significant development projects, or private clients seeking planning and statutory consents to alter or add to protected structures and recorded monuments.
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We believe that development and conservation are not incompatible aspirations, but rather that heritage buildings evolve over time to meet the needs of their occupants. We help our clients to design in ways which maintain the importance and atmosphere of the old, while introducing the new.

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We agree with the best international thinking on urban and rural planning which view heritage resources as being of huge economic and social value to their communities. We have spent our 30 year history helping state bodies, local authorities and voluntary organisations committed to the preservation of Ireland’s built heritage, to implement heritage-led urban renewal programmes.

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