Bath Preservation Trust’s guidance on managing heritage buildings is among eight local finalists in the running to win one of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) Awards for Planning Excellence.
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The Awards for Planning Excellence are the most established and respected awards in the UK planning industry.
For over 40 years, they have and continue to celebrate exceptional examples of planning and the contribution planners make to society.
There are 78 finalists across 13 categories, in the South West of England they are:
- West of England Joint Spatial Plan (West England Partnership) – a joint spatial plan between four local authorities (Bath and North-East Somerset Council, Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council and South Gloucestershire Council) to deliver housing, employment, infrastructure in a strategic and planned way (Excellence in Plan Making Practice);
- Four Greens Community Trust (Plymouth City Council) – the Council transformed an empty care home in Whitleigh into a building to house small businesses, support services and community groups, including the charity Barnardo’s (Excellence in Planning for Health and Wellbeing);
- The S.H.E.D (School’s Health & Educational Den) Frogmary Green Farm Classroom (David Glasson Planning Ltd) – is a joint venture between Frogmary Green Farm and Somerset Public Health to deliver a class room like facility on a farm for school children to get a ‘field to fork’ experience of the links between food production, cooking and healthy eating (Excellence in Planning for Health and Wellbeing);
- Making Changes (Bath Preservation Trust) – guidance to properly manage buildings with heritage value, including best practice advice on repairing, altering and extending listed building plus information on relevant planning issues (Excellence in Planning for Heritage and Culture);
- The Nelson Project (Plymouth City Council) – development includes 24 innovative and high quality affordable apartments with service veterans building their own homes plus 12 self-build units for ex-service personnel, six for people with learning disabilities and six general needs affordable homes (Excellence in Planning for Homes – Large Schemes);
- Teignbridge District Council (Local Authority Planning Team of the Year);
- Hunter Page Planning (Planning Consultancy of the Year);
- Andrea Kellegher – Turley (Young Planner of the Year Award).
Suzanne D’Arcy MRTPI, Chair of RTPI South West said: “This year’s awards’ shortlist is full of outstanding projects and plans. Each represents the hard work and outstanding contribution planners make to our community.
“It’s great to see so many local projects getting the national recognition they deserve.”
Andrew Jones MRTPI, Practice Leader Design Planning + Economics, AECOM said: “AECOM is proud to once again be a headline sponsor of this year’s RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence.
“The 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.”
David Jackson MRTPI, Head of Planning, Savills said: “Savills is delighted to be a headline sponsor of the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence.
“The 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.”
The winners will be announced during a ceremony at Milton Court – The Barbican, London on 24th May 2018.
