The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence are open for entries, with a closing date of 9 December 2016, and categories that include ‘Excellence in Planning for Built Heritage’ and volunteering, while for the first time entry is free.
The RTPI writes:
Entering the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence is a free, high impact way to highlight planning achievements to potential clients, peers, the media and the wider built environment.
Phil Williams, President of the RTPI said ‘The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence celebrate the way planning makes great places. This is your chance to get the recognition you deserve for your project, team or for a fellow planner. The awards provide the perfect opportunity to recognise achievement in planning excellence.’
We welcome entries from planning initiatives of all types and sizes. We are interested in the calibre of the achievement, rather than the scale of the project.
Your entry will be considered by a judging panel of industry experts. All winning entries and finalists will be publicised widely, and will have the right to use an awards finalist or winner logo on their own promotional materials to showcase their achievement.
The categories are as below:
Projects
- Excellence in Planning for Built Heritage
- Excellence in Planning for the Natural Environment
- Excellence in Planning for Well-being
- Excellence in Planning to Create Economically Successful Places
- Excellence in Planning to Deliver Housing
- Excellence in Planning for the Innovative Delivery of Infrastructure
- Excellence in Plan Making Practice
- International Award for Excellence in Planning
Teams
- Employer Award for Excellence
- Local Authority Planning Team of the Year
- Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Planning Consultancy of the Year
Individuals
- Young Planner of the Year
- Volunteer Planner of the Year
Each year the RTPI presents the Silver Jubilee Cup to the project category winner considered the most outstanding.
Entries can be submitted until midnight GMT on 9 December 2016. Winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony at Milton Court in Central London on 15 June 2017. Full details on how to enter and eligibility criteria are available on the RTPI website.
View the press release and more details of how to enter
