{"id":25696,"date":"2020-03-17T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25696"},"modified":"2020-03-16T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:46:44","slug":"finalists-announced-for-rtpi-planning-awards-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25696","title":{"rendered":"Finalists announced for RTPI Planning Awards 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25697\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/RTPI_Awards_2020-300x186.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/>A range of innovative ways to tackle the UK\u2019s housing crisis will feature at the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2020.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Royal Town Planning institute (RTPI) writes:<\/p>\n<p>Finalists include a self-build scheme in Glasgow, a modular \u2018innovation village\u2019 in Gateshead and a Cambridgeshire cohousing development planned collaboratively by residents, architects, developers and public authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The RTPI\u2019s annual Awards for Planning Excellence, now in their 45<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0year, are the most respected in the UK planning industry. The awards celebrate exceptional examples of planning and the contribution planners make to society not just throughout the UK but internationally.<\/p>\n<p>In total,\u00a0<a title=\"Finalists 2020\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/events-training-and-awards\/awards\/rtpi-awards-for-planning-excellence\/finalists-2020\/\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/document\/44f5e531676546d58dfd11328761c65f\">116 projects, teams and individuals across 14 categories<\/a>\u00a0have been selected by the independent judges this year from a record number of entries.<\/p>\n<p>The climax of the ceremony, which takes place in London on 30 April, will be the presentation of the Silver Jubilee Cup, awarded to the project adjudged best overall.<\/p>\n<p>The judging panel in 2020 will once again be chaired by Prof Sadie Morgan, founding director of Stirling Prize-winning architecture practice dRMM.<\/p>\n<p>RTPI President Sue Manns FRTPI said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany congratulations to all the finalists at the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2020, representing the very best of our profession from all the RTPI\u2019s regions and nations and from countries around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese outstanding projects, teams and individuals show how planning can have a positive effect on our communities and the environment and how planners can use their expertise and enthusiasm to create inclusive, happy and healthy places and spaces for ourselves and for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish them all the best of the luck at the ceremony on 30 April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Headline sponsors of this year\u2019s event are engineering firm AECOM and real estate service provider Savills.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Jones MRTPI, Practice Leader Design Planning Economics at AECOM, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe finalists are a diverse mixture of outstanding examples of planning which demonstrate the breadth of the impact the profession has on quality place making and delivery in the built environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Jackson MRTPI, Head of Planning at Savills, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe finalists reflect the positive impact planning has on our communities and wider society across the UK, Ireland and internationally through exemplary projects, plans and people.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced at a ceremony at Milton Court Concert Hall in London on 30 April. &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/press-releases\/2020\/february\/finalists-announced-today-for-rtpi-planning-awards-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A range of innovative ways to tackle the UK\u2019s housing crisis will feature at the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25698,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25696\/revisions\/25698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}