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Everything you need to know to visit The Royal Landscape
The origin of The Royal Landscape project lies in the decision of The Crown Estate to approve the construction of The Savill Building, to replace the previous visitor centre.
The Royal Landscape project has four main objectives:
- to provide a new level of visitor facilities for The Savill Garden and for the site as a whole;
- to protect the southern part of the Great Park – including its lakes, woodland, and historic landscape features – from damage due to uncontrolled access, and to carefully manage the natural decline that affects all mature woodlands;
- to conserve and manage this heritage for future generations through continued landscape works, plantation and interpretation;
- to draw the public’s attention to the exceptional beauty of the site – and give its visitors a better understanding of its history and heritage.
The project will preserve the unique character of the site, but not create a museum of the past. Indeed, many items of the project will be forward-looking. The architecture is of the 21st century, and the Crown Estate will continue to extend and enhance the gardens and woodlands, in the living tradition of the Great Park.
