PAULETTE MCALLISTER FRSA

Paulette McAllister is a Heritage and Place Strategist with over 30 years of experience in the built environment. She is Founder and Managing Director of Joseph Hardy & Company Ltd.

 

Paulette’s work is defined by her deep understanding of Place, encompassing social, cultural and architectural heritage she continuously demonstrates her commitment to shaping schemes of all scales to serve the long-term benefit of communities.

 

She holds a longstanding role in Local Government, acting as a Place Advisor and as an external consultee on the historic and built environment. Her expertise includes the reuse of historic buildings, management of conservation areas, Place Narratives for regeneration programmes, and the strategic integration of heritage into urban design. She has acted as an expert witness and advised on development strategies for new homes programmes, most recently directing the delivery of Net Zero Carbon Council Homes and Estate Regeneration Programme for a Local Authority.

 

Respected widely for her collaborative approach and ability to work across disciplines, she ensures Heritage is embedded within future-facing design narratives, to achieve the highest standards of design quality and legacy in Placemaking.

 

Originally from the North East, Paulette is a former graduate of Chelsea School of Art and a current Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Vice Chair of the Essex Quality Review Panel. She is passionate about Heritage and how it can inform resilient and connected Places she has co-authored design guides, SPDs, Local Plan studies, and conservation area appraisals, and contributed to academic research on coastal erosion and heritage, as well as education in Placemaking for young people.