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26 | Managing and Protecting our Historic Environment What is Changing?
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New statutory designations
Gardens and designed landscapes
Historic Scotland compiles and maintains a
statutory Inventory of Gardens and Designed
Landscapes on behalf of Scottish Ministers.
The purpose of the Inventory is to identify
sites of national importance and to provide
information on them as a basis for the
sustainable management of change.
Historic Scotland assesses sites for inclusion in
the Inventory against guidance and criteria set
out by Scottish Ministers in the SHEP (Annex 4).
The Inventory was first published in 1987. It
currently contains 386 sites ranging from
the policies of historic country houses, to
botanic garden collections, urban parks,
small plantsman’s gardens, and even some
cemeteries. The older sites in the Inventory
contain the earthwork remains of medieval
gardens, while the most recent are innovative
20th century gardens by designers and artists.
The Inventory is available to search online via
the Historic Scotland website at
The website, PASTMAP www.pastmap.org.uk
can also be used to search for the location of
Inventory sites.
Gardens and designed landscapes are
afforded some protection in the planning
system. The terms of the Town and Country
Planning (Development Management
Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2008
(DMPR) require planning authorities to consult
Scottish Ministers in the case of applications
for planning permission which may affect a
garden or designed landscape (defined by
reference to the Inventory). They also require
applications to be accompanied by a design
statement where an application relates to
land situated within a garden or designed
landscape.
Historic battlefields
The SHEP 2009 introduced a new policy for
the protection of battlefields including the
creation of a statutory Inventory. The purpose
of the Inventory is to identify sites of national
importance and provide information on them
as a basis for the sustainable management
of change through the planning system.
Historic Scotland will be responsible for
creating and maintaining the Inventory and
for promoting it as a resource to enhance
awareness, understanding, protection,
management and interpretation of battlefields.
Scottish Ministers’ policies for the treatment of
battlefields of national importance, as set out
in paragraph 3.66 of the SHEP, will be given
effect by amendment to the DMPR. Proposed
amendments to the DMPR will mean that in
future the effect of proposed developments
on Inventory battlefields will be a material
consideration in the determination of a
planning application. Historic Scotland has
worked with planning authorities and other
key stakeholders to develop guidance on
the effective protection and management of
inventory sites, as part of Historic Scotland’s
Managing Change in the Historic Environment
series.