National Planning Awards
Every second year, the Institute presents a number of awards aimed at highlighting the best examples of planning practice during the previous years and to raise the standard of townscape design and planning awareness both within the public and private sectors. The National Planning Awards seek to illustrate the diversity and wide scope of planning activity today, and give recognition to successful and innovative planning strategies, schemes or developments, which make an outstanding contribution to the quality of life in urban and rural parts of Ireland.
The National Planning Awards 2010
The IPI National Planning Awards 2010 were presented at a ceremony in Dublin on 12th February by the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr John Gormley TD. The winners included:
Category (A) Planning Achievement Award
(i) Planning Strategies
• Phibsborough/ Mountjoy Local Area Plan - Award Winner
• Omagh: Towards A City Vision for 2025 - Commendation
• Loughmacask Local Area Plan 2008-2014 - Commendation
(ii) Regeneration/Public Realms
• Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow - Commendation
• Public Realm Plan for Birr - Commendation
Category (B) Planning Achievement in Conservation Award
• Refurbishment and Extension of Former Presentation Convent as a Medical Centre, Waterford City - Commendation
Category ( C) Planning Achievement in Participatory Planning Award
• Dolphin House Regeneration - Commendation
Note: The Mountjoy/ Phibsborough Local Area Plan, which was adopted by Dublin City Council in 2008, seeks to address a broad range of planning and development issues impacting on the growth of Phibsborough as a designated Prime Urban Centre. The policy proposals contained within the plan are tailored so as to promote the economic, social and physical regeneration of the area and, in particular, to provide a structured approach to the development of high profile sites within the plan boundary which include Mountjoy Prison, the Mater Hospital, Dalymount Park, the former Shandon Bakery site at Cross Guns Bridge and the former Smurfit printworks on Botanic Road. The plan contains clear objectives for the future of these sites should they be re-developed, addressing issues such as height, scale, density, layout of streets and open space. The Local Area Plan was prepared by John Spain Associates and Paul Keogh Architects for Dublin City Council.
Further detail of the award will be posted shortly.