Conservation
Our Conservation Team’s resources and expertise in planning, architecture and landscape design are vital to help conserve and protect public and private parks and gardens.
Our team has two principal objectives:
- To help organisations create, conserve and/or manage parks and gardens;
- To assist local planning authorities when they are considering planning applications for developments that directly, or are likely to indirectly, impact upon a listed historic park or garden or other designed landscape.
Creating and conserving
The Team achieves these objectives firstly through
its range of expertise and local knowledge (see the Conservation Team) whereby advice can be offered on how to create, conserve or maintain. These skills can be extended to the creation of Landscape Management Plans.
Secondly, the Team can provide grants for the whole or part of the implementation of projects – ranging from the design of a new garden; advice and financial support for maintenance and repairs; to supplying tools to enable volunteers to maintain an existing historic park or garden. Whilst funding may be limited, the Team often offers its grants as ‘seed capital’ to encourage others to build-up the necessary funds.
Assisting local planning authorities
The professional background of most members of the Team (often in local government) enables them to provide assistance to local planning authorities, when requested, with development applications affecting historic parks and gardens or other designed landscapes. These skills are also available when core strategies are being developed by local planning authorities.
In addition, together with the Research Team, we are supporting local authorities with information to enable them to create local lists of landscape heritage assets as required by Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for the Historic Environment. Presuming that this policy will be continued, then more and more local planning authorities could benefit from this assistance.
Other Conservation pages: Criteria, Current Projects, Projects Completed, Conservation Team
