Conservation
The Society is a Government-appointed statutory consultee. While we welcome this position, it has meant an enormous increase in the volume of work for our conservation officers. Find out more about our work:
Conservation Strategy
The ever-increasing burden on our limited resources has led our Conservation Committee to formulate a new policy to deal with planning applications: this
conservation strategy helps to set out our role in the planning system.
Conservation Casework
If you want to discuss our casework with our team of conservation officers please contact us at
conservation@gardenhistorysociety.org or, in Scotland, contact
scotland@gardenhistorysociety.org
We keep a log of all consultations and comments made in our work as a Government-appointed statutory consultee (in England ) and we are happy to hear from all interested parties.
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Planning Conservation Advice Notes
The Garden History Society's Planning Conservation Advice Notes (PCANs) have been devised to advise those wishing to determine the impact upon historic designed landscape of specific proposals for change. This includes local planning authorities, potential developers, owners or other interested parties.
You can download
the complete set of notes or individual sections as listed below. All are in PDF format. (You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader free from
www.adobe.com )
Introduction
PCAN 1: Change of Use (of landscape, and of principal and/or subsidiary buildings)
PCAN 2: Hotel and Leisure Development
PCAN 3: Extension of Educational/Institutional Establishments
PCAN 4: Executive Housing
PCAN 5: Golf
PCAN 6:Vehicle Parking and Access
PCAN 7:Treatment of Boundaries and Entrances
PCAN 8:Telecommunications Masts
PCAN 9: Development of Domestic Amenities
PCAN 10: CCTV and Lighting
PCAN 11: Development in the Setting of Historic Designed Landscape
PCAN 12: Evaluation of New Landscape Features
PCAN 13: Briefs for Historic Landscape Assessments
PCAN 14: Management Plans (including Statements of Significance)
Appendices:
1: Lists of subsidiary development generated by particular types of change
2: General Evaluation Checklist (All types development/all types landscape)
3: Planning Context
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Conservation Officers' Reports
Reports for the last 12 months are available to view online below. If you would like to read an earlier report, please contact
webmaster@gardenhistorysociety.org with details of the report you would like to see.
Digest of Planning Inquiries
In order to help protect historic parks and gardens through the planning system, the Garden History Society has, with the support of English Heritage, produced a Digest of Planning Inquiries affecting relevant sites in England and Wales. This is updated every six months and currently contains details of over 100 Inquiries - most, if not all, of those to affect historic parks and gardens since 1996. The Digest is organised by themes, such as 'Walled Gardens' or 'Setting', and includes relevant extracts from each decision.
The Digest is produced as a searchable pdf and can be obtained by contacting the GHS at
conservation@gardenhistorysociety.org or by telephoning 020 7608 2409. It costs £50, but is free to Garden History Society members, Gardens Trusts,
English Heritage, local authorities, and Heritage Link organisations.
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Read our conservation strategy