East Midlands Gardens Trusts Research Project
"Pilot project in East Midlands focusing on re-energizing County Gardens Trusts through collaborative efforts. Aim is to engage communities in understanding and conserving historic parks and gardens. Project involves working with professionals to produce standardized research output and enhance protection of designed landscapes. Activities include mobilizing local groups, running educational programs, organizing activity days, and producing Statements of Significance for individual sites. Outcomes target establishing Friends groups, enhancing membership of county trust, and improving local green spaces."
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East Midlands Gardens Trusts Research and Recording Project (pilot stage) Re-energising the region s County Gardens Trusts. Taking a collaborative approach to maximise specialisms and expertise within the wider region. Seeking Our Heritage HLF funding.
Project Area Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Lincolnshire Leicestershire & Rutland Northamptonshire
Project Working Group Flexible approach. Representative(s) from the county gardens trusts within the region. Historic environment management professionals from local planning authorities (eg. Historic Environment Officers, County Archaeologist, Historic Buildings Conservation Officer). Historic Landscape Project staff.
Public Parks (eg.Abington Park, Northampton)
and other designed open access green space such as cemeteries (eg. Billing Road Cemetery, Northampton)
Stated Aims To actively engage communities, helping them to learn about the significance of historic parks and gardens in their local area and conservation issues affecting them. To build future skilled volunteer capacity to ensure the continued study, protection and enjoyment of designed landscapes. To produce standardised research and recording output including Statements of Significance to enhance the protection of individual parks and gardens.
How to Deliver? Identify and mobilise local community groups for each site within the pilot project (building foundations of Friends of groups). Run education and training programmes on garden history, research, survey and recording, report writing (including Statements of Significance), conservation processes such as responding to planning applications, contributing to local and neighbourhood plans. Organise fun activity days. Writing Statements of Significance for individual sites which will be widely available via website(s). Feedback of structured data and SoSs to HERs and P&GUK.
Outcomes Helping to establish active and informed Friends groups for cherished public parks and gardens. Increasing active and appropriately skilled membership of our county gardens trusts. Enhancement of key local and national datasets. Production of Statements of Significance. Further HLF bid(s) to extend the research and recording to other designed landscapes, such as private estates.
