Owners of estates like Eaton Hall in Cheshire need to take the long term view. The Duke and Duchess of Westminster commissioned Arabella Lennox-Boyd Landscape Design to undertake an historical and feasibility study of their 36 hectares of gardens and parkland, along with an evaluation of the gardens, soils and drainage in 1992. 

The management survey resulted in re-allocation of labour which freed up resources for improvements, and a phasing plan to guide the works for the next decade.  

Many of the gardens had been poorly re-instated after the Second World War, and a Nestfield parterre and works by other leading post-war designers needed sensitive restoration.  Twenty years on, most of the garden and park has been redesigned and replanted with ALB still involved for both hard and soft design and the supervision of gardeners.