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Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage Site Management Plan Progress Report February 2018 Welcome We’ve had an incredibly busy Alongside our conservation work, we couple of years since the launch have created inspiring experiences like of our management plan in our folly! art programme and welcomed record numbers of visitors. We were February 2016. delighted to be awarded Large Visitor Attraction of the Year at the Welcome Conservation of the World Heritage to Yorkshire White Rose Awards in Site remains at the heart of all we do. October last year. This review celebrates the work of the National Trust and our partners. We wouldn’t have been able to deliver It highlights the work we’ve done on this work without our partners and the bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund local communities and also the staff for projects along the Skell catchment and volunteers who help care for and our conservation programme in the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Georgian water garden. In addition to World Heritage Site. work on site we’ve also been working hard to protect the wider setting of Sarah France the World Heritage Site through our World Heritage Site Co-ordinator objection to the planning proposal for new housing development on the Tony Earnshaw western edge of Ripon. Chair of the World Heritage Site Steering Group 2 World Heritage Management Plan Progress Report February 2018 Temple of Fame Who we are The World Heritage Site is managed with the support and advice of the World Heritage Site Steering Group. Tony Earnshaw — Assistant Director, Operations (North), National Trust and Chair of the Steering Group Justin Scully — General Manager, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal View of Fountains Abbey from the east Deborah Wall — Principal Local Engagement Adviser, Historic England Mark Douglas — Properties Curator, English Heritage Kathryn Daly — Head of Planning and Development, Harrogate Borough Council Liz Small — Heritage Services Manager, North Yorkshire County Council Peter Goodchild — International Council on Monuments and Sites World Heritage Management Plan Progress Report February 2018 3 Theme 1: Overall Management Approach A sustainable future £240,858 spent on Income generated on the estate is incredibly conservation projects important to fund vital conservation in 2017 work across the World Heritage Site. Everyone who pays us a visit, every cup of 14 holiday cottages tea and every purchase in our shop helps us look after this special place. Holiday 422,000 visitors in 2017 cottages are an important source of income for the estate and an effective way of conserving vernacular buildings. This year Whitefields Cottage, in the deer park we have added three new cottages to our current collection. “ …Quite magical. The location was truly spectacular, varied West Gate Lodge was built around 1859 walks and landscapes on by the Marquess of Ripon and has an the doorstep. The natural enviable location near the abbey, looking surroundings, early mornings south across an orchard of ancient and dark night sky provided variety fruit trees and to the Kitchen Bank peace, beauty, and history!” meadow. Whitefields Cottage and boot room is at the other end of the estate, right Visitor, December 2017 on the edge of the Studley Royal deer park. All three cottages are proving really popular – the bookings help us not only to look after the cottages but also to protect and restore other buildings across the estate. West Gate Lodge 4 World Heritage Management Plan Progress Report February 2018 Protecting the setting of In July 2017 Harrogate Borough Council’s Planning Committee refused the the World Heritage Site application and Gladman then submitted an appeal. The Trust presented evidence The Trust feels strongly about the at an eight day Public Inquiry between 24 importance of place and the need to work October and 4 November 2017. It will now beyond its own boundaries to conserve be for the Planning Inspector and Secretary places like Fountains Abbey and Studley of State to consider whether the public Royal for everyone to enjoy now and in benefits of the scheme outweigh harm the future. to the setting of the World Heritage Site. The Inspector has advised he will submit Back in 2014 Gladman Developments his report to the Secretary of State with submitted a planning application for 450 his recommendation no later than 28 homes, later reduced to 430, on a large February 2018. It will then be for the area of land adjacent to the western Secretary of State to consider whether boundary of Ripon. The Trust was he agrees with his Inspector and issues concerned that the proposed housing the decision. We anticipate this may be development would have an impact on the around May / June 2018. 18th century viewpoint from Gillet Hill on the eastern edge of the World Heritage The site at West Lane is allocated for Site and the prospect tower at How Hill. housing development in the consultation Gladman appealed against Harrogate draft of the Harrogate District Local Plan. Borough Council’s non-determination This plan is out for public consultation of the application in December 2016 until 9 March 2018 and the Trust will be and submitted a revised application commenting on the policies in the plan. for 390 homes. The Trust objected to both applications on the grounds of harm to the setting of the World Heritage Site, particularly from Gillet Hill and also some harm to the setting of How Hill Tower, a Grade II* listed building. World Heritage Sites are designated for their Outstanding Universal Value – cultural and/or natural significance, which is so exceptional they The View of Ripon and Plumpton Hall from Gillet Hill, by Francis Nicholson, 1797 are afforded protection for their global value. Designated heritage assets are irreplaceable and government advice explains that any harm to them should have clear and convincing justification. World Heritage Management Plan Progress Report February 2018 5 Theme 2: Conservation & Environmental Performance Update on the Skell The river was highly modified Heritage Lottery Fund Bid to create the water garden In 2017 we worked closely with Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and many other partners to pull together a £2.6m Heritage Lottery Fund Landscape Partnership Scheme bid focussed around the River Skell which flows through the World Heritage Site. The Skell Landscape Project sets out to work with landowners and farmers within the river catchment The River Skell was highly modified in the The water garden in flood in May 2012 to deliver natural flood management 12th century by the monks as part of plans measures such as planting woodlands, for the abbey and mill and then again in creating storage ponds and building the 18th century to form the ornamental woody dams. ponds, canals and cascades in the water garden. The Skell catchment is an area of It’s also about creating better habitats high flood risk because the ground can’t for wildlife, opening up access throughout cope with heavy or prolonged periods of the catchment and restoring some rain. This leads to rapid surface run-off neglected historic buildings and landscapes. which swells the river quickly, leaving a We want to extend links with Ripon path of destruction in its wake. The last and the communities upstream to significant flood in 2007 damaged the explore the stories which have shaped ruins of Fountains Abbey as well as the this distinctive landscape. The Half Moon Reservoir was dredged in 2015 historic features of the water garden and downstream at Ripon. Unfortunately floods like these are not one-offs. In addition to flooding, large amounts of silt are deposited in the ornamental water features each year – impacting on their Damage to the abbey cloister following the 2007 floods beauty and biodiversity. The management plan highlights flooding and siltation as the biggest threat to the World Heritage Site. 6 World Heritage Management Plan Progress Report February 2018 Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal: River Skell Catchment - Key Locations Legend: Project area boundary Sandstone tors and lakes at Eavestone — a fascinating landscape in the Skell catchment Hell Wath Local The flood risk affects the whole of the Fountains Abbey Nature Reserve valley, so working together with the ! & Studley Royal local community has been crucial. In !! Dallowgill Moor ! Grantley Hall ! 2017, in partnership with Nidderdale ! Spa Gill Wood ! Seven Bridges & Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Chinese Woods we successfully bid to the Countryside EEaaveestsotneo Lnakee Lake ! Stewardship Natural Flood Management Facilitation Fund and we now have 20 farmers within the catchment working with us to plan measures to improve soil management and to slow the flow of the river. Following discussions and meetings Scale: 1:50,000 @ A3 with local people, visitors, farmers Date: 30th May 2017 Drawn By: S Parnham and landowners both upstream and Version: 1.0 downstream of Fountains we worked km ± 0 1 2 together to develop a whole range of © Crown copyright and database rights 2017 Ordnance Survey 100023974 projects across the catchment to make it better for nature, restore heritage sites at risk and improve access and understanding of the landscape. A Natural Flood Management Facilitation Fund event on soil structure and drainage The source of the Skell is on Dallowgill World Heritage Management Plan Progress Report February 2018 7 In June last year we and our partners submitted an application to the Heritage Land slippage closes De Greys Walk Lottery Fund’s Landscape Partnership Other water projects Scheme to fund the projects. Our bid was De Greys Walk is an important part of not successful but following a very useful Repairs to Studley Lake Dam the circular route through the estate feedback meeting with the grants officers for visitors, linking Fountains Abbey at the Heritage Lottery Fund we have Following inspection and survey by with the water gardens.
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