This year, the Royal Town Planning Institute are bringing their awards for projects and awards for people together on the same deadline – all award winners will presented at the Awards ceremony in February 2012.
Anyone can submit entries, with no requirement for entrants to be RTPI members. The project must be located in the UK or Ireland.
All types of planning activities are eligible, including plans, processes, projects or completed schemes. However one of the tests of plans such as master plans is their capability of implementation. It is appropriate that plans of this kind are entered when there is evidence of their success on the ground. The scale of the project is not necessarily relevant to the evaluation of the achievement.
Awards may be made to local authorities, consultants, community groups, developers, public agencies, partnerships or other teams judged to merit such recognition.
Categories include:
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Sustainable Communities
Including proposals for and the creation of sustainable, mixed use, developments in rural or urban contexts which balance and integrate the social, economic, environmental and resource needs of the community.
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Local Regeneration and Renewal
Including physical and community regeneration of neighbourhoods, districts and urban centres.
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Rural Areas and the Natural Environment
Including all aspects of planning in rural areas from development guidance to village regeneration and the protection and enhancement of the natural environment including responses to the new agendas for landowners and farmers.
Deadline for entries: Tuesday 31 May
Enter online: www.rtpiplanningawards.com
For further information contact Alessandra Zorzato on alessandra.zorzato@haymarket.com / 020 8267 41 61.
