Castle Bromwich
Hall Gardens
Hall Gardens
About Us > Future Plans
The Immediate Future
For the past 25 years the Trust’s Offices and Visitor facilities and been housed in a collection of temporary buildings and portacabins. These are now well past their best and so plans are in hand to replace them with a new Heritage Centre. This will house the offices, visitor, education facilities and a Horticultural Reference Library.
For the past 25 years the Trust’s Offices and Visitor facilities and been housed in a collection of temporary buildings and portacabins. These are now well past their best and so plans are in hand to replace them with a new Heritage Centre. This will house the offices, visitor, education facilities and a Horticultural Reference Library.
With the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and individuals and organisations providing partnership funding, the aim is to continue the restoration and re-creation of the gardens so that when completed, the gardens will illustrate the intricacy and sophistication typical of the Dutch garden style. The visual links between the Hall, Gardens and Parkland beyond will be reaffirmed by reinstating the most ornamental gardens around the Hall and by preserving unobstructed the viewlines which extend from the Hall to the north and to the west. To strengthen the links between the Gardens and the countryside, as many of the original clairvoies will be opened up as is possible. Within the Gardens the strict policy of only using plants that were available by 1762 will be maintained. In doing this the Trust will be able to build up a valuable reference collection of period plants.
All restoration works will be followed up with a commitment to the maintenance regimes necessary for keeping the ornamental gardens immaculate and the working areas well cared for.
The Long Term Aim
Currently, the Hall, Gardens and Park are under separate ownership. In recent years ownership of the Hall and garden areas immediately adjoining it, has changed several times. Castle Bromwich Hall and Gardens Trust owns the rest of the Gardens and The Parkland is owned by Birmingham City Council.
It is the Trust’s long term aim to visually reunite the Hall, Gardens and Parkland (not necessarily under one ownership), so that they can ensure that this historic site will be regenerated for the future and enjoyed by the public in perpetuity.
The Parkland has remained protected from development, but has not been maintained, and has fallen into complete neglect. What exists today is an important reminder of the rural setting the Hall and Gardens once had. The Park has additional value as public open space and as a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (Castle Bromwich Wetland). The Trust would like to see the park given a stronger identity and through management, to create an environment which local users can cherish.