The IHBC has warmly welcomed the Garden History Society’s (GHS) new project to harness the potential of Conservation Management Plans in caring for historic designed landscapes.
The Garden History Society writes:
Conservation Management Plans (CMPs) have become de rigeur as a tool for ensuring informed and considered ongoing management strategies for historic designed landscapes.
As it is widely accepted to be best practice to include a substantial section on a site’s history and development and surviving state, CMPs form an invaluable and sizeable body of information on the UK’s historic designed landscapes.
The Garden History Society is developing a project to harness this knowledge, with sponsorship from English Heritage. In the first instance we aim to produce a readily-available reference list of CMPs and related research concerning historic landscapes in the UK, including where to access them.
We would be delighted to hear from anyone with details of specific CMPs – site owners and managers, landscape architects, historians, local authorities, organisations and amenity groups.
Please send as many of the following details as possible, to cmp@gardenhistorysociety.org:
· Site name and location (including county)
· EH Register grade, if applicable
· Author/Consultants
· Date
· Title
· Purpose (e.g. Heritage Lottery Fund, Environmental Stewardship, English Heritage, Task Force Trees, planning application etc)
· Status e.g. draft, final
· Where to find a reference copy (preferably a public record office or library) and/or a web link
Additionally,
· If you are not the author/owner of the CMP, please try to obtain permission first and let us know whether this has been done.
· Please alert us if there may be copyright issues.
· Would you be interested in submitting the CMPs to the Hestercombe archive (see below)?
The list will be available online in March 2013 via the Parks & Gardens UK website, www.parksandgardens.ac.uk We are looking at ways to keep it updated in future.
The GHS is also working closely on this project with the Hestercombe Gardens Trust, which is creating a CMP archive as a key resource for researchers and landscape consultants to be available through its Centre for Landscape Studies.
Queries about the project, and submission of details for CMPs relating to historic parks and gardens, can be directed to cmp@gardenhistorysociety.org, or you can call 07596 656 574.
For the Garden History Society see: www.gardenhistorysociety.org
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