Planting Places Awards
PLANTING PLACES AWARDS 2009 - APPLICATION FORMS AVAILABLE!
The second Planting Places awards will highlight and celebrate top examples of greenspace across the South West, and recognise the input and influence of these spaces in supporting sustainable communities.
As well as the overall award, this year’s ‘best practice awards’ will highlight: Engaging the Community, Supporting Biodiversity, Managing Flood Risk, Promoting Health & Well Being and Responding to Climate Change.
Any public greenspace can be nominated for an award; this includes everything from parks, community gardens and allotments to green routes (ie cycle paths), playing fields and even cemeteries and rooftops. It can be privately funded, NHS Trust, community, conservation group or council land. But it must be free and accessible to the public, and for public use and enjoyment.
All winners will receive a specially commissioned award at a ceremony at the Architecture Centre, Bristol in early March. The winners will also be highlighted in a special exhibition, which will be on display at the Architecture Centre from 3 – 29 March 2009 (approx) as part of their Spring Green Programme.
The application form can be submitted by a local community group, local authority, NHS Trust, NGO, private organisation or individual. Completed application forms must be submitted by 5pm on Tuesday, 27 January 2009.Click HERE for the application form or email pplaces@sustainabilitysouthwest.org.uk
This year's awards are supported by: the Architecture Centre , Environment Agency , Natural England and NHS South West.
LAST YEAR'S AWARDS
The Planting Places awards celebrated and rewarded 10 brilliant examples of urban greenspaces in the region. We wanted to showcase greenspaces that are making a host of contributions to the sustainability - from supporting biodiversity and local food/energy production to improving community well-being and inclusion.Thank you very much to all the projects who entered the awards - we received nominations from a fantastic number of amazing greenspaces from across the region. We are pleased to announce the following projects as our 2008 winners (in no particular order):
1. Urban Heaths Project - Bournemouth & Poole
2. St. Werburghs City Farm (Boiling Wells) - Bristol
3. Tuckingmill Valley Park - Camborne, Cornwall
4. Weston Woods - Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset
5. Victoria Park Action Group - Bristol
6. Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve - Bradley Stoke, S Glos
7. Community Garden at Hayden Rd Allotment - Cheltenham
8. Bristol to Bath Cycle/Railway Path
9. Belmont Sensory Garden restoration - Exeter
10. Diggin' It Organic - Plymouth
Winners were presented with a specially commissioned piece of artwork for their greenspace at SSW's annual 'Local to Regional' event in Weston-super-Mare on the 6th March.
Have a look on the 'case studies' page for more information about each of the winners.
Visit the Sustainability South West Web site.
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