Conservation
Here are the latest GHS conservation notes. These include updates from both our English and Scottish offices.
March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie writes:
Government is now considering the responses received to its consultation on the draft PPS15 and accompanying Practice Guidance. It appears likely that the final PPS will be published in mid- to late March without a further round of public consultation. The new document will supersede PPG15 with immediate effect, but as yet the [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie writes:
We are very pleased that as a result of work commissioned last year, English Heritage has announced a significant revision of the grading of cemeteries included on the Register of Parks and Gardens. As well as upgrades to Grade I for major metropolitan cemeteries such as Kensal Green and Highgate, the revised grades [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie writes:
Following the previous report, we can report on two further potentially detrimental on-shore wind farm schemes. In both cases the local planning authority failed to comply with its statutory duty and neglected to consult The Garden History Society on the proposals.
The first scheme, near Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire, has the potential to affect views [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Alison Allighan writes:
Over the past two years Historic Scotland (HS) has been withdrawing sections of the Memorandum of Guidance on Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas which was last updated in 1998. Section 5 ‘Gardens and Designed Landscapes’ was superseded with the publication of Scottish Historic Environment Policy (SHEP) 3 early in March 2008. Last autumn, [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Alison Allighan writes:
In September 2009 we were commissioned by Glasgow City Council to assess the significance of the surviving terraced gardens attached to Provan Hall in Garthamlock (right), to the east of the city. Parts of the building date back to 1575 and it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Glasgow. Although little [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie (with John Clark) writes:
The Government has provided powerful incentives to businesses seeking to become involved in renewable energy schemes. ‘Alternative energy’ looks set to develop into a highly lucrative industry both through a generous grant regime & changes to planning policy.
It is not surprising, therefore, that The Garden History Society has seen a [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie writes:
While it is clear that the country is undergoing a serious economic downturn, recession or even depression, with the construction industry apparently suffering a particularly sharp decline, it is interesting to note that the number of statutory and other consultations received by the Society has remained broadly consistent over the past twelve months.
Analysis [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie writes:
As if to underline the message implicit in our casework figures, in June English Heritage published its Heritage At Risk data for 2009, which for the first time named historic designed landscapes identified as being ‘at risk’. A total of 94 registered sites were named, with 24 in the South East, 16 in [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie writes:
The Government has, in the past few days, finally launched the long-awaited consultation on a replacement for Planning Policy Guidance Note 15 (PPG 15): Planning and the Historic Environment, which was issued in 1994, and PPG 16 which dealt with archaeology in relation to the planning system.
PPG 15 in particular has been crucial [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie writes:
Dedicated readers of the Conservation Notes may recall reference in 2007 to plans for a new landform to be designed by Kim Wilkie for the Grade I registered landscape at Boughton House, Northamptonshire. We commented at the time that it was exciting, and all too rare, to find an owner such as the [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Jonathan Lovie writes:
Although not a party to the on-going Public Inquiry into proposals for the future development of Grade II* Crystal Palace Park, we have been following developments at the Inquiry with growing concern.
A comprehensive masterplan for the rejuvenation of what was once among the most important public parks in England has been developed for [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Alison Allighan writes:
At the request of members of the local community, we recently visited (2009) the remains of the only known garden designed by Humphry Repton in Scotland, at Valleyfield in Fife. The house was abandoned in 1918 and subsequently demolished, but remnants of the designed landscape which survive include the picturesque carriage drive with [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Alison Allighan writes:
Cowden Japanese Garden; an image made by Miss Christie, 1909(?) (by kind permission of Dollar Museum)Following on from our visit last November (2008) we returned to the Japanese garden in late spring to assess the level of survival of some of the ornamental planting, with foliage and flowers more evident. Overall [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Alison Allighan writes:
In May 2009, we were pleased to support the formation of a ‘Friends of Rosshall Park’, the park being one of only five sites in Scotland known to contain artificial rockwork by James Pulham & Son. At their inaugural meeting Christopher Dingwall, the Society’s Honorary Research Adviser for Scotland, gave a short [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Alison Allighan writes:
Despite the economic downturn, 2009 has seen several major development applications arriving in the office on which advice is being sought. These have included the construction of new university campus buildings and housing at Craigie House, Ayr; the restoration, with the help of enabling housing, at Lathallan House, Falkirk; and the construction of [...]
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