Revision of Natural England's 'Historic Parkland Handbook'

An 'Historic Parkland Handbook', developed in-house, underpins our parkland work and advice - though remains in draft. It was based on the Natural England commissioned Defra-funded project undertaken by Cookson & Tickner 2013. Associated with this handbook is the 'Historic Parkland Prioritisation Assessment' and a template brief for commissioning Parkland Management Plans. These all require revision to reflect changing priorities, e.g. climate change, tree disease, etc. The four outputs of the project are aimed at...