Enter Now - Deadline 30th March

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Education and Lifelong Learning Awards
Young Planner of the Year Award
Planning Consultancy Awards

 

How to Enter

The following information relates to the Planning Awards for which the deadline has now passed

 
 
The online entry system will close at midnight on Monday 12th April. If you would like to submit your entry please get in touch with Judy Woollett at the RTPI Judy.woollett@rtpi.org.uk who will be able to give you further details about submitting your entry via e-mail. Entries will not be admitted after midday on Friday 16th April.
 
Before beginning the online entry process you should have payment ready by invoice (requiring a Purchase Order) or credit card. Cost of entry is £95 + VAT (£111.63). You should be prepared to complete the online process within one hour so that you are not timed out.
 
 
What to Enter
 
Project Summary
The project summary should comprise no more than 4 sides of A4. It should draw attention to the particular nature of the achievement, for example in terms of methodology, approach, design, co-ordination or implementation of the plan, process, project or completed scheme. It should include basic facts about the entry, including where appropriate:
  1. The location of the project
  2. A description of the area
  3. The timescale over which the project evolved
  4. The problems tackled by the project
  5. The solutions devised
  6. The results achieved
  7. Building elements and financial aspects
  8. How the entry fits into its statutory planning context, and sustainable development requirements.
All the major parties involved in the project should be listed so that their contribution to the achievement can be evaluated. These may include local authority departments, planning and other consultancies, developers, public agencies and voluntary and community organisations.
 
However, please remember the awards criteria
 
The weakest part of many entries in previous years has been the failure to recognise the importance of the project summary and how the entry fulfils the seven separate judging criteria. In order to help the judges it is suggested that the summary consists of a short paragraph under each of the judging criteria explaining how the entry addresses each criterion.
 
For details of the criteria please go to Judging Criteria
 
 
Support Material
 
Any additional support materials must be sent to the RTPI directly by post. This should arrive by FRIDAY 16th April. We require two copies of this material as one copy is sent to the relevant RTPI Region for use in their own awards programme. Support material may include professional quality photographs or other illustrations showing the nature of the achievement and other succinct and relevant supporting material that illustrates the key points and which will assist the judges.
 
A printed copy of your online submission confirmation should be attached to this material.
 
Please post to:
 
Judy Woollett
RTPI Planning Awards 2010
The Royal Town Planning Institute
41 Botolph Lane
London
EC3R 8DL
 
 
Judging Criteria

To merit a national award, entries must demonstrate outstanding achievement judged to have advanced significantly the science and art of town planning for the benefit of the community, or to provide an outstanding example of the beneficial impact of positive planning.
 
In evaluating such achievements the following aspects, as appropriate, will be taken into account and should be specifically addressed in your entry submission:
  1. Enhancement of the physical environment leading to recognisable social and economic benefit in terms of human happiness, greater safety and greater efficiency
  2. How the submission adapts to, or mitigates against the threats posed by climate change as raised in the RTPI’s seven commitments on climate change – see www.rtpi.org.uk
  3. How the submission has addressed all aspects of sustainable development
  4. Originality of the achievement or approach
  5. The key issues and problems that needed to be overcome
  6. Quality of the professional work involved in project design, the development of planning concepts and the application of planning techniques
  7. Extent to which the achievement may serve as a model for work elsewhere or as a basis for the development of further related schemes
  8. The role played by the planner working in partnership with other agencies
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