Within Action 1 "Spatial Strategy" a comprehensive policy review has been carried out to identify policies etc. that refer to parks and gardens in regional planning or sustainable development strategies.

Two major policy tools have been subject to detailed reviews and the reports can be downloaded here:

EGHN_REGIONALE NRW (pdf-file, 0,4 MB)

EGHN_Cultural Strategies (pdf-file, 0,2 MB)

Conference proceedings "Innovative Regional Development Through Gardens" are documented here:

EGHN_Tatton_Conference (pdf-file, 0,2 MB)

NEW!! Value and impact assessment of Tatton Park as download here

Within Action 2 "Inter-Regional Gateways" case studies for each of the five anchor gardens have been worked out to give essential and comparable information on their cultural, social and economic activities and relevance.

Joint reports for Schloss Dyck (Northrhine-Westphalia), Tatton Park (Cheshire), Painshill Park (Surrey), Hestercombe Gardens (Somerset) and Parc Oriental (Pays de la Loire) in English and German were published (a French version to follow soon) and are available for download here:

EGHN_Case Study Report (English version, pdf-file, 2MB)

EGHN_Case Study Report (German version, pdf-file, 2MB)

EGHN_Case Study Report (French version, pdf-file, 2MB)

Also under "Inter-Regional Gateways" the partner "The Friends of the National Trust in Germany" has collected latest material on the opportunities and limitations of voluntary work in heritage protection and gives a comprehensive overview on existing initiatives for parks and gardens in Germany. This paper also reports how the National Trust manages the inclusion of volunteers at their properties or within their concept of Working Holidays. This paper is available in German only:

EGHN_Paper on voluntary work (German version, pdf-file, 0.3 MB)

Within Action 3 "Transnational Themes" partners provided evaluations of existing visitor surveys available for various parks and gardens in their countries. This helped to understand visitor demands and to analyse market potentials for measures within the EGHN. It also gave essential input for the design of an own questionnaire which has been used for a transnational visitor surveys in 13 gardens.

The evaluation report of German visitor surveys and the joint questionnaire are available for download here:

EGHN_Survey Review Germany (pdf-file, 0,1 MB)

EGHN_Questionnaire (pdf-file, 0,1 MB)

Within Action 4 "Access" partners provided "Baseline Reviews of Transport and Access Conditions" for their anchor gardens to explore the current position and state-of-the-art initiatives. These reports have been subject to a joined evaluation and assessment in order to explore innovative measures to improve the current situation.

Reports on each anchor garden are available for download here:

EGHN_Access review Hestercombe Gardens (pdf-file, 2,7 MB)

EGHN_Access review Schloss Dyck (pdf-file, 3,6 MB)

EGHN_Access review Tatton Park (pdf-file, 0,8 MB)

EGHN_Access review Painshill Park (pdf-file, 0,7 MB)

EGHN-Access review Parc Oriental (pdf-file, 1,5 MB)

Within Action 5 "Interpretation" 75 parks and gardens in Pays de la Loire have been visited by a group of students to evaluate (according to a given questionnaire) the visitor welcome and information and interpretation material directing visitors to and available on the sites.

The report summarizing this comprehensive survey and documentation is available at:

EGHN_Interpretation Survey (pdf-file , 1,0 MB)

Within Action 6 "Education" the Transnational Working Group, including staff members of the partners, external experts, teachers and others, published a specific newsletter. It summarizes the work already done, the objectives for future work and explains next steps within this key action.

The first issue of the EGHN-Education-Newsletter is available for download here:

EGHN_Education Newsletter1 (pdf-file 0,6 MB)