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St Leonards Gardens is a Regency garden which became a public park in
the nineteenth century. It is grade ll on the English Heritage register.
ACTA produced a conservation plan and restoration and management plan
which were the basis for a successful bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The restoration proposals were based on:
 accurate
reconstruction of original paths, walls and boundaries
tree
management to restore the relationship between the gardens and the surrounding
Regency villas
replanting
in period style.
ACTA are project landscape architects for the construction contract.
We have developed a planting scheme which:
retains
the best of the mature vegetation
reinforces
the semi-natural character of the edges of the park
reflects
the delicate and complex style of Regency planting in the more public
areas.
Other Restoration Projects:
Alexandra Park
Parham Park
Dunorlan Park
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The gardens are
one of the few open spaces in a socially deprived area
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The overall syle
of the Regency gardens can be reconstructed from engravings and
contemporary descriptions
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Reconstructing
the shaded slopes
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Replanting in progress
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By
the early twentieth century the gardens had become a mature and
attractive landscape, but subsequently declined as maintenance resources
were reduced
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