International Award for Planning Excellence
This category invites submissions from outside the British Isles. The project or plan can fit into any of the other project categories, but if outside the British Isles it must be submitted in this category.
Eligibility
Projects or plans completed in the two years prior to 1 January 2024 are eligible for entry, even if the planning component was completed years prior. Particular care should be taken to avoid entering schemes prematurely before they can be satisfactorily assessed. We recommend projects are completed or sufficiently completed, in order to be assessed fully against all the judging criteria and other submissions.
Judging criteria
Judges will be asked to assess schemes on the following criteria:
Outcomes for People and Communities:
How has your project/scheme:
- made a positive impact on the local economy?
- made improvements for specific groups e.g. people with physical disabilities, families, young people and ethnic minority communities?
- made a positive impact on health and wellbeing e.g. solved problems/challenges with access to open space?
- addressed issues of gender and inequality e.g. safety in public realm?
Outcomes for climate action:
- Please provide evidence of successful post completion action e.g. how scheme uses energy efficiency
- Please provide evidence of successful action taken in delivering the project to resilience and mitigation against climate change e.g. carbon footprint of delivery, offsetting, waste disposal, material selection.
- What targets did the scheme have for climate change and have those been met or exceeded?
Outcomes for sustainable development:
- How does the project meet UN Sustainable Development Goals?
Planning contribution:
- The centrality of a planning practitioner(s) to the project
- How planning tools have been used to deliver positively
- How has knowledge been exchanged between the planning professions?
Community engagement:
- How did you engage with local communities?
- How did this engagement affect the plan development?
- How inclusive was the community engagement?
Leading practice:
- Value for money
- Complexity of the brief/degree of difficulty and creative and innovative response to the brief
- Timetable – was scheme delivered on time
- Is an exemplar that is transferable worldwide
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