Parks & Gardens at Risk
There are 1595 designed landscapes on the current English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. These registered landscapes include private gardens, public parks and other green space, country estates and cemeteries. They are valued for their beauty, diversity and historical importance but compared to the number of, say, listed buildings, this is a small group of assets.
The new 'at risk' register for parks and gardens draws on a suite of indicators that were selected to describe change (whether beneficial or detrimental), active conservation planning, and neglect for every registered site. This initial analysis provides a baseline and a guide to the sites that need further investigation by English Heritage’s advisers in discussion with individual property owners and others. At the same time, English Heritage will continue to develop and refine its methodology for monitoring risks to parks and gardens.
