The winners of the prestigious UK Placemaking Awards have been announced, with the Princes Regeneration Trust’s programme for Middleport Pottery winning the award for the ‘best use of heritage in placemaking’, and ‘Paisley Town Centre Heritage Asset Strategy’ awarded ‘best use of arts, culture or sport in placemaking’, both UK award winners and leading a wide range of successful heritage-linked projects and initiatives.
The Planning Placemaking awards writes:
The Placemaking Awards recognise and publicise projects, plans, people and organisations that are making places better. Open to individuals and organizations in planning, regeneration, economic development, urban design, sustainable development and community development.
The aim of the Placemaking Awards is to be as inclusive as possible for the Built Environment, to showcase not just projects that have come to fruition but also ideas, plans and the people and consultancies behind the process of planning and to highlight all aspects of the Built Environment including the best practice that each and every planner has at the core of their work.
The Princes Regeneration Trust writes:
Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of world-renowned Burleigh ware, has won another national award – its second in under a month.
The Pottery beat off fierce competition from major redevelopment projects across the country, including the revived King’s Cross Station in London, to win a prestigious Placemaking Award for the best use of heritage in place-making. The Placemaking Awards, organised by built environment trade magazine Planning, aim to recognise projects and organisations that make places better, covering regeneration, planning, economic development and urban design.
The awards judges praised the scheme for ‘[safeguarding] employment and creative uses of the heritage buildings to great effect’. The victory comes just weeks after Middleport Pottery’s won a Civic Trust AABC Conservation Award for building conservation excellence.
The Placemaking Awards were held at The Royal Institution in central London last night. As well as King’s Cross, the Pottery was also up against the new King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester and St Paul’s Gardens in the City of London (the City of London Corporation. PRT’s flagship project is also in the running for three more regional and national awards.
View the Princes Regeneration Trust press release on the win for Middleport Pottery
Find out more about the history of Middleport Pottery
View the Renfrewshire Council news article on the Paisley Town Centre Heritage Asset Strategy win
Download the Paisley Town Centre Heritage Asset Strategy
View the DoENI press release on the Living Places finalist award
Download ‘Living Places’
View the results for all categories
