{"id":27982,"date":"2020-10-16T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27982"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:22:00","slug":"rtpi-gold-medal-presented-to-plymouth-city-councils-paul-barnard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27982","title":{"rendered":"RTPI Gold Medal presented to Plymouth City Council\u2019s Paul Barnard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26464\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Plymouth_Civic_Centre_300px-259x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" \/>The RTPI has congratulated Paul Barnard MRTPI who has been presented with the RTPI\u2019s Gold Medal during a virtual meeting of the Institute\u2019s General Assembly.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration purposes only &#8211; Se\u00e1n O&#8217;Reilly<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The RTPI writes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/press-releases\/2019\/december\/plymouth-planning-director-paul-barnard-awarded-rtpi-s-top-honour\/\">It was announced in December<\/a>\u00a0that Paul, Plymouth City Council\u2019s service director for strategic planning and infrastructure, would be presented with the award for \u2018exceptional achievement in the field of town and country planning\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing General Assembly members, Paul said: \u201cIt\u2019s an honour to receive the RTPI Gold Medal in recognition of the importance of public sector planning and the innovation shown within local government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Plymouth, we strongly believe in proactive, positive planning and I feel most privileged to have been part of Plymouth\u2019s planning journey since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlanning is one of the most valuable and positive activities that we can undertake as a society, so it\u2019s truly humbling to be only the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0town planner to receive this prestigious award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RTPI President Sue Manns FRTPI offered her congratulations, describing Paul\u2019s acceptance speech as \u2018inspirational\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThis award recognises Paul Barnard as an exceptional town planner, whose leadership, planning expertise, ability to innovate and sheer determination have resulted in planning services at Plymouth City Council now being considered amongst the best in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The RTPI Gold Medal is awarded at the discretion of the Board of Trustees. It is international and is open to all classes of membership. Since it was first awarded in 1953, recipients have included such planning luminaries as Sir Terry Farrell, Sir Peter Hall and Sir Patrick Abercrombie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/press-releases\/2020\/june\/rtpi-gold-medal-presented-to-plymouth-city-council-s-paul-barnard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RTPI has congratulated Paul Barnard MRTPI who has been presented with the RTPI\u2019s Gold Medal during a virtual meeting of the Institute\u2019s General Assembly. image: for illustration purposes only &#8211; Se\u00e1n O&#8217;Reilly<\/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-27982","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\/27982","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=27982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27984,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982\/revisions\/27984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}