• Built Heritage Consultant
• Joseph Hardy Design & Heritage
• BA(Hons) MSc FRSA IHBC

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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, a specialist consultancy supporting both public and private sector clients.

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

She holds a longstanding advisory role in local government, acting as an external consultee on the historic and built environment across the Southeast. Her expertise includes the reuse of listed 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 in the Southeast, most recently directing the delivery of Net Zero Carbon Council Homes and Estate Regeneration for a Local Authority.

Respected for her collaborative approach and ability to work across disciplines, she ensures that heritage and local identity are embedded within future-facing design narratives, helping to achieve the highest standards of design quality.

Originally from the North East, Paulette is a graduate of Chelsea School of Art and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 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.