Events

George Pepler - previous winners

2012 Award

Congratulations to Lorayne Woodend for her winning proposal "Machizukuri - A study into the practice of community building in Japan". Lorayne hopes that her study will assist her in gaining a better understanding of the concept so she can draw comparisons between machizukuri and neighbourhood planning in England.

2010 Award

The 2010 award was won by Janice Ching Yu Tse, for her proposal "Planning for a sustainable and liveable city in a changing climate: lessons from North America.

Janice visited Toronto and New York City to assess the planning, implementation and management of green infrastructure in those cities and how they combat climate change and enhance the natural and built environment. Janice's report provides great insight into the climate change strategies and planning systems and policies in place in Toronto and New York City. The report has three appendices with additional detail:

2008 Award

The 2008 award was won by Rachel Bland, Affordable Housing Officer at South Hams District Council, who was presented with her certificate at a General Assembly Meeting on 22nd April 2009.

Rachel visited the inner-city neighbourhood of West Broadway in Winnipeg, Canada in July 2008, to investigate the delivery of affordable housing through longer established Community Land Trusts.

In her report Rachel concludes that, although the West Broadway CLT was ultimately unsuccessful, its testimony and experience coupled with supporting research and evaluation still offers a useful insight for policy makers and CLT proponents. In particular the work around lease-to-own CLTs offers an additional dimension to ongoing debates and research around CLT in the UK.

A second smaller award was presented in 2008 to Hannah Keren Griffiths who is a postgraduate teaching assistant at UCL. Hannah visited Vietnam under the auspices of an internship with the Urban Environmental Planning Programme in Vietnam and assisted on the redevelopment of the undergraduate degree course in Urban Planning at HCMC's University of Architecture. She also used this opportunity to carry out personal research on climate change.

Congratulations to Rachel and Hannah.