Best New Place to Live
This award champions schemes designed to maximise affordable housing delivery, high quality residential and place making.
Entries will have to demonstrate the following:
- Creates good quality and desirable homes
- High quality landscape and public realm
- Responds well to its context and optimises access to a range of facilities and public transport
Best New Place to Work
This award is open to all types of workspace, from workshops to industrial floors, showcasing schemes which have successfully optimised well-designed working environments and affordable workspace components.
Entries will need to meet the following criteria:
- Responds well to its context and creates a high-quality public realm
- Encourages access by walking, cycling and public transport
- Quality of internal working environment and on-site facilities promote well-being
- Achieves high environmental standards
Best Mixed-Use Scheme
This category champions schemes such as co-location developments which have successfully balanced multiple uses, including industrial and residential, through good design principles.
Entries will have to demonstrate the following:
- A diverse mix of uses that respond well to the local context
- Innovative design in terms of co-location and multi-layering of uses
- A positive impact on the environmental, economic or social well-being of the community or local area
- High quality public realm and sense of place
The Heritage & Culture Award
Open to all projects with significant heritage assets and/or cultural importance such as the refurbishment/integration of listed buildings and schemes that make an outstanding contribution to London such as visual and performing arts venues, music venues, film studios etc.
Entries will need to meet the following criteria:
- Has led to investment and/or revitalisation of heritage/cultural assets
- Makes a positive contribution to the local community and economy
- Creates genuine public benefit in terms of accessibility and education
- Demonstrates long-term vision and continued viable use of the site
The Mayor’s Award for Sustainable and Environmental Planning
This award recognises schemes that demonstrate environmental credentials such as, innovative and sustainable construction methods, biodiversity/urban greening and geodiversity.
Entries will need to demonstrate the following:
- Maximises opportunities to improve biodiversity and access to the natural environment
- Improves or will improve air quality
- Improves or seeks to improve social and physical well-being and health
- Achieves exemplary standards of sustainability or environmental performance
The Award for Community Engagement in the Planning Process
This would champion community/stakeholder engagement such as residents’ led design in estate regeneration projects, innovative public consultation methods or exemplary community-led initiatives and schemes.
Entries will need to meet the following criteria:
- Has an innovative approach to community involvement
- Achieves good local awareness and support for project
- Has been developed by/with the community from conception
- Demonstrates a better outcome for a planning application scheme or a development plan document
The Borough-led Projects Award
This award recognises projects or initiatives that have been initiated and led by a Borough, either on its own or in partnership with a private organisation. Entries should be able to show how the project has delivered lasting change and regenerative influences either at a community, district centre or Borough-wide level. Projects should be at an advanced or completed stage to allow the judges to assess the respective merits and outcomes. Projects can include physical interventions such as public realm works, community/public buildings and place-making strategies or plan-led overarching spatial strategies such as area based masterplans to support a Local Plan.
This award will be given to the entry that most clearly communicates how a project or initiative has delivered positive change to the physical or environmental quality of an area, and/or its economic and social make-up.
Entries will have to demonstrate the following:
- How your authority has undertaken innovative and pro-active forward planning
- How your authority proactively works in partnership with the private sector and other organisations in your local area
- Proactive and meaningful community engagement throughout the process
- Effective use of public funds to achieve best value
- A positive impact on the environmental, economic or social well-being of the community or local area
The Mayor’s Award for Good Growth
The winner for this category is chosen from the above category winners. The Mayor would select the project or scheme that most successfully contributes to delivering his six Good Growth principles:
- Building strong and inclusive communities
- Making the best use of land
- Creating a healthy city
- Delivering the homes Londoners need
- Growing a good economy
- Increasing efficiency and resilience