A custom-built education and training facility has won the Best Project Award for its sustainability at the RTPI East Midlands Awards for Planning Excellence.
The Hub, in Northamptonshire, is the first bespoke education facility built by Prologis and provides a dedicated space for logistics and skills training at the UK’s largest rail-served logistics park.
Planning consultancy Lichfields have been at the forefront of delivering Prologis’ vision and have worked collaboratively with planning officers and the local community to ensure the building connected with the wider DIRFT estate.
RTPI East Midlands Awards judge Lynette Swinburne MRTPI said: “The Hub at DIRFT puts sustainability and wellbeing at the heart of the design approach, resulting in a ground-breaking facility that has achieved a significant reduction in embodied/operational carbon emissions and offers an exceptional environment to learn, work and train in.”
The other winner on the night was Young Planner of the Year Antonia Wyatt from Fisher German infrastructure and renewables planning. Antonia demonstrated excellence and a clear commitment to developing her career as a planner and promoting the role of planning and by extension the RTPI.
The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence celebrate projects and people who have helped create exceptional places and improved the lives of those who live and work there; highlighting how planning and planners work to create a safe, healthy and sustainable future.
The overall winners for all the categories will be announced and celebrated at a ceremony in central London on 30 November.
