There will first be an assessment of the presentation and content of your Conservation Plan and other documents supplied to back up your application to be a Green Heritage Site. As your site must also meet the Green Flag Award criteria, judges will then carry out a visit to assess your site for both Green Flag and Green Heritage status.
If your site is judged to meet both sets of criteria it will receive a Green Flag Award and will become a Green Heritage Site. To ensure that you stand the best chance of achieving Green Heritage status, you may like to consider what the judges will be looking for.
You may not already have all the entry criteria in place. If not, and you would like some guidance to help you get it right and give yourself the best chance of becoming a Green Heritage Site, the sources listed below will be able to advise you:
Historic Gardens Foundation - http://www.historicgardens.freeserve.co.uk
This website contains a useful article by John Sales entitled ‘Conserving Historic Gardens’ with advice on drawing up a Conservation Plan.
Garden History Society – http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings – http://www.spab.org.uk
English Heritage – http://www.english-heritage.org.uk (English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund provide briefs for what should go in a plan; also see Mary Lockwood ‘Study Methods’ in Jan Woudstra and Ken Fieldhouse The Regeneration of Public Parks (2000))
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