How to Enter the Project Awards
Entry for the 2012 Awards is now closed. Please check back in early March for information on entering next year.
Please read carefully the following notes before you enter your work. They provide guidance on what should be included in your entry. Please note the word limits.
To download and save the entry form, click here
The following definitions will be used in the entry form.
Name: Name the person with whom contact is to be made on the submission.
Organisation: Name the organisation/s to whom the submission relates.
Category: Name the category to which the submission relates. Please name one category only. The judges reserve the right to change the category if they consider it fits more appropriately in one of the others if the submission is short listed as one of the finalists.
Location of submission: Provide the address of the site (including the post code) to which the submission relates if relevant and any relevant facts about the locality.
Description of submission: The description should draw brief 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 and should include, where appropriate, the timescale over which the project evolved and any building elements and financial aspects
List of key participants: 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.
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.
Your entry submission should assess the submission against all of the following criteria:
1) How the entry fits into the statutory planning context;
2) Whether the submission has led to an enhancement of the physical environment leading to recognisable social and economic benefit in terms of human happiness, greater safety and greater efficiency
3) 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 – click here to see the RTPI's seven commitments on climate change.
4) How the submission has addressed all aspects of sustainable development
5) Originality of the achievement or approach and its applicability as a model for work elsewhere or as a basis for the development of further related schemes
6) The key issues and problems that needed to be overcome, the solutions devised and the results achieved
7) Quality of the professional work involved in project design, the development of planning concepts and the application of planning techniques
8) The involvement of the community in the delivered project or scheme.
9) How the submission has addressed equality and diversity issues.
Summary of why award should be given: a short summary of what has been achieved and how it demonstrates the value of planning.
Summary of submission for publication purposes: a 100-word quote from an identified individual prominently involved in the project for use in publicity material.
Supporting Material
Any additional supporting material must be sent to the RTPI by post to the following address
FAO Kate Webster
The RTPI Planning Awards
RTPI
41 Botolph Lane
London EC3R 8DL
We require two copies of this material as one copy is sent to the relevant RTPI Region for use in their own awards programme. Supporting 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.