Historic parks and gardens play a critical role in social cohesion, wellbeing, and cultural storytelling. They are of significance locally, nationally and internationally.
However, they face critical threats from financial difficulty, neglect, mismanagement, change of ownership and development. With such pressures, there is a danger that some of these special sites may fall into decline or even disappear.
Our purpose is to help preserve garden heritage, through undertaking and compiling research, to enable us to understand everything that makes them fascinating and important. Each landscape is unique and has a story to tell. Knowing a site’s past can help us decide why and how we need to care for it in the future.
We work with owners, managers and local authorities to ensure that those gardens, parks and cemeteries of special historic importance are recognised and conserved. To achieve this, we maintain records of the designed landscapes (parks, gardens and cemeteries) in Gloucestershire which are then published in the public domain.
This research then informs our representations on planning applications which affect designed landscapes in our county. GGLT is one of England’s ‘star’ CGTs when it comes to responding to local planning applications. If you too feel strongly about preserving these landscapes, we would welcome you joining our vigilant and proactive conservation team.
Full training will be given and for more information or to join us please email [email protected].
