Mid to Late C20 designed landscapes: Overlooked, undervalued and at risk? The Gardens Trust [Alliance member] needs your nominations by 31 October!
In partnership with Historic England the Trust is looking for important designed landscapes from the 1960s to the mid 1990s with potential for assessment for registration on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) where they are woefully unrepresented.
To date the Campaign has received only 18 sites in the more public domain of country park, civic, commercial, institutional, sport and housing landscapes. The geographical spread is uneven too, dominated by the South and Midlands: only 4 sites are in the North or North East! ‘Public’ typologies such as housing estates, universities, institutional sites of hospitals, industrial and infrastructure complexes are particularly vulnerable to being misunderstood and unappreciated as designed landscape and consequently suffering undeserved neglect, poor management and, on occasion, complete loss.
Do you know of just such a landscape? Can you take 5 minutes to nominate it to the Campaign? The landscapes most likely to make the grade should have:
A strong design element
A good level of survival (although they may be in a poor condition)
Probably, but not necessarily, be the work of an eminent designer
Have a layer of design from c1960-1990, although this may be part of an older landscape.
Fill out the online nomination form.
The deadline for submissions is 31st October 2017