Verulamium Park Management Plan 2012-2017 v2.1

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Introduction A clear management framework is required to guide the maintenance and development and so realise the Parks assets. The Verulamium Park Management Plan has been written for this purpose and we engaged with the general public via a public consultation. What is the Verulamium Park Management Plan? The Verulamium Park Management Plan sets out the principles of management and improvements of infrastructure that Verulamium Park requires. St Albans City and District Council acknowledges that the successful implementation of a management plan requires close collaboration between the public, private and voluntary sectors. Many different organisations and individuals are involved directly and indirectly in the management and use of the Park, and the Council recognises its increasingly important role as an enabler to encourage and support these wider interests. The Verulamium Park Management Plan is a published document that has been produced to guide the management and development of the park. The plan outlines the vision, aims and objectives for the park for the next five years until 2017. It makes an assessment of the Park's strengths and weaknesses, and identifies the actions that need to be implemented. Development of the Verulamium Park Management Plan This is the first formal document produced to guide the management of the park. It builds on the work of the Park's Consultative Forum, and pulls together the existing works, contracts and procedures. In its development, the plan has considered the following key areas: • HISTORIC LANDSCAPE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND EDUCATION: Protection of the nationally significant archaeological features and historic landscape, and to develop and promote educational opportunities • WELCOMING AND ACCESSIBLE: Providing clear, safe and welcoming access into and throughout the Park • NATURE CONSERVATION AND BIODIVERSITY: Maintaining and enhancing the quality and value of the Park’s habitats • BUILDINGS AND FURNITURE: Ensuring all fixtures, fittings and buildings in the Park are in safe and serviceable condition and, where appropriate, of uniform design • RECREATION AND EVENTS: Developing new and innovative ways to attract a wider variety of visitors to the Park, and to fully realise its value as a site of open space • MONITORING AND REVIEW: Learning from experience and judging effectiveness of management in order to refine work programmes and make best use of scarce resources 6
Chapter 1 Historical and Geographical Context of Verulamium Park 1.1 The Historical Context The area covered by park comprises some 50% of the Roman town of Verulamium, which extended to some 80ha by the late third century AD: the third largest in Roman Britain. After its decline and desertion, the chapels of SS Mary Magdalene and Germanus were established in medieval times. In the post-medieval period, most of the area was farmed from St Germain’s farm (now the site of Verulamium Museum), and remained in agricultural use until 1929 when St Albans City and District Council acquired that part of the Roman town site to the east of Bluehouse Hill from the Earl of Verulam. The newly acquired land was to be used for a municipal park, and there seems to have been some idea of laying out some Roman buildings as part of the Park's attractions. In the Roman period, after 43 AD, Verulamium developed into a major provincial town, and when the town walls were built in the third century, they enclosed a greater area than that of any other town walls in Britain with the exception of London and Cirencester. The precise status of Roman Verulamium has been the subject of much debate. Tacitus, writing at the end of the first century, describes the town as a municipium. Roman Verulamium was also the civitas, or tribal, capital of the Catuvellauni. Under the Roman Empire the Catuvellauni controlled one of the most extensive and richest tribal territories in the province. Verulamium would therefore have been the centre of one of the richest areas in the province. 1.1.1 The Excavations of Wheeler On the 2 nd August 1930, Sir Mortimer Wheeler and his first wife, Tessa, commenced a series of excavations in the Park. The Wheeler excavations mark a highly significant development, both in the understanding of Verulamium and in the evolution of Romano-British studies in the country generally. For the first time a programme of excavations was undertaken with the express aim, not simply of revealing buried structures, but in order to write the history of the Roman town. The advances made by Wheeler's work in understanding Roman Verulamium cannot be over-emphasized. Prior to his arrival, the account of the Roman town had hardly changed since the eighteenth century, yet seven years after the start of excavations in 1930, a detailed account of its history was published. Not surprisingly Wheeler's account of the history of Verulamium is a tremendous influence on Romano-British archaeology in the country as a 7
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Regime Pavilions Standard required
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Park Buildings Maintenance Programm
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Verulamium Park Access and Interpre
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2 DESIGN GUIDELINES The following s
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4 CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES PRELIMI
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5 BILL OF QUANTITIES 1a Description
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ST ALBANS CITY AND DISTRICT COUNCIL
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Document 5 Visual Aids 17. Entrance
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YEAR 1 Action Plan 2012 ‐ 2013 Ob
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