This year RTPI is bringing its 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.
Projects Awards – Categories:
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.
City and Metropolitan Areas
Including major schemes and regeneration in larger urban areas
Local Regeneration and Renewal
Including physical and community regeneration of neighbourhoods, districts and urban centres.
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.
Planning Process
Innovative and imaginative use of the planning process to achieve positive results, including through active and effective involvement of communities and integration with other strategies.
Heritage Arts Culture Sport
Where heritage, public/performing art, cultural or sports proposals have assisted with the regeneration of places (for example where local people have benefited from greater access to the opportunities provided), including planning strategies for heritage areas and enhancement of groups of buildings or larger areas of heritage significance.
Public Realm
Including all aspects of townscape and landscape enhancement.
Spatial Strategies
Spatial frameworks that are soundly based and have a demonstrable prospect of delivering sustainable development via coordinated action from public, private, voluntary and community sectors.
Planning for Business
Planning activities that meet the aspirations of commercial end users while also contributing significantly to the wider public interest.
Other Category
For submissions that do not fall readily into any of the above categories.
Within the Planning Awards for people, we seek to identify exemplary practice in the planning consultancy sector, among young planners and in learning and development (recognising students, planning schools and employers).
People Awards – Categories
Planning Consultancy of the Year
Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
Planning Consultant of the Year
Young Planner of the Year
Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Employer Award for Excellence in Learning and Development
Student Award for Outstanding Achievement in Planning Education
For Projects awards: LINK
For People awards: LINK
