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The Historic Building Advisory Service is a membership-based consultancy service.

The costs of membership are:

Online user subscription - £55 per year. Subscribe Now

This fee is rebated against the first block of additional services commissioned from HBAS in each subscription year to make subscription FREE.

Extra services can be purchased beyond the two specialist enquiries that are included in the subscription fee. This can be in the form of the purchase of additional credits, purchased in advance to cover any work, or by individual payment.

We will always inform the member when additional charges become applicable, provide an indication of the fee, and await their acceptance of that before we provide further assistance.

Where additional credits are purchased, these can be rolled over from one subscription year to the next, subject to a small administration charge.

 

         
       
 

Charges for additional services:

      

 

For clients wanting a more comprehensive service in terms of time or work range beyond the two free enquiries included in the subscription, credits are available in half-hourly or hourly blocks. This will allow commercial members to make the HBAS service available to their staff.

When specialist services are provided individually to meet a member’s requirements, a fee quotation will be provided in advance for each block of work. This will be based on the type of service required and the amount of involvement required from HBAS to deliver that service.

Specialist service fees charged by HBAS will always be competitive in relation to those offered by providers of a comparable professional service.

When you have subscribed and you decide that you want further specialist service from HBAS, this is quite easy to achieve. There are two ways of doing this:

You can purchase a block of additional time by going to your member enquiry portal and requesting a specified number of hours or for a fixed amount of money to purchase a block of hours. We will then respond with an e-mail attaching the cost as a link – when you click on this blue link it will take you to the checkout in order to pay for your chosen amount of credits. Then, as we undertake the work for you, a fee will be quoted in advance and that will be deducted from the block of credit. Where Credits are unused at the end of the yearly subscription period they can be rolled over to the next subscription year, subject to a small administration charge.

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You can send us details of your enquiry or the type of help that you want from us and we will provide you with a fixed fee for the amount of work we consider will be involved, together with a specification of what we will do for you. That e-mail will contain the fee cost as a link – when you click on the link you will be taken to the checkout in order to pay the fee for that element of work. Once payment has been made, we will let you know when we can start the requested work.

When a member has used the two e-mail enquiries that are included in the annual subscription, further e-mail enquiries can be made at a charge of £75.00 per hour, billed in ten minute blocks. We will never proceed with a question which will incur a charge until we have the agreement of the member to do so.

         
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