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Alexandra Park was laid out by Robert Marnock in 1878-80. It extends
through the centre of Hastings and is grade ll on the English Heritage
register. ACTA worked with Hastings Borough Council on the preparation
of conservation and management plans for a £3.4 million Heritage
Lottery Fund scheme.
Subsequently ACTA prepared;
 a survey
of trees and shrubs for their landscape and wildlife value
planting
designed in the Gardenesque style of Marnock incorporating the best of
the surviving twentieth-century planting
specification
for reinstating the planting beds
specification
for management of the park
ecological
audit of the whole of the site including the semi-natural inland gill
woodlands
management
plans for the semi-natural areas
Other Restoration Projects:
St. Leonards
Dunorlan Park
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Revitalising the
walk around the boating lake was central to the project
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Many of the best
effects in the restored park were achieved by clearance of trees
and scrub to expose the high-quality older planting
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The
colourful shrubberies, which were a contrast with the lawns and
ponds through the centre of the park
were restored
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Management
proposals were written for the semi-natural gill vegetation which
extends inland beyond the designed landscape
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