Conservation

Member estates include areas of Britain's finest scenic landscapes as well as some of the great urban streetscapes. These latter include significant parts of central London, market towns and rural villages. High standards of building conservation skills are applied to maintain historic assets often held by the same family for many generations.

Rural areas include the whole range of landscape types: woodland, grass and arable land, upland common and heathland. Much of this lies within Conservation Areas, AONBs and includes SSSIs, Historic Monuments and World Heritage Sites. The fact that these estates operate to extend time scales and have the substance to afford proper and coherent maintenance programmes leads to an ability to achieve stewardship of the highest quality and act as guardians of these assets for future generations. Maintaining and indeed replacing lost hedgerows, stone walls and ponds are just some of the many tasks routinely undertaken.