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.
Please find here a guide to the winning and commended entries to the 2010 National Planning Awards. Three of the entries to these Awards will now go forward to represent Ireland at the 8th European Urban and Regional Planning Achievement Awards to be held in Brussels in the autumn.
The National Planning Awards 2010- download brochure
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 Realm
• 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
Details of the all awarded entries can be found in the Award's guide above.