Call for entries The National Urban Design Awards are the UK’s premier awards for public authorities, consultants, contractors, developers and homebuilders involved in the design of towns and cities, streets and spaces, estates and neighbourhoods. The Urban Design Developer of the Year award gives recognition to leading developers and homebuilders who are at the forefront of the industry in the quality of urban design in their work. We are now inviting entries for the 2016 awards and encourage you to take this opportunity to showcase your company’s skills and schemes. TO ENTER please send in: 1. A short summary of your company’s approach to design (Single A4 page, words). You might wish to cover any company policies, values, mission statement, in-house guidance, procedures. 2. Details of your best built scheme (UK or international) from the past three years. The schemes can be any reasonable area of urban design and development, large or small including greenfield housing; mixed-use sites; inner urban estate regeneration and redevelopment; industrial and mixed use; retail and leisure development. Please provide a short narrative to address each of the judging criteria. The judging criteria are: Design quality: How have the highest design and environmental principles been implemented in the scheme? How have the design quality and environmental standards positively influenced the design of public spaces, building and land use arrangement, and detailed quality of the public realm in relation to the context? Are the buildings, spaces, and materials adaptable and durable? Land assembly & financing: Were there any creative ways of bringing about the land for development such as infrastructure-first, public-private partnerships, community land trusts, and/or phasing strategies? Were there any financial challenges you faced and how did you overcome them? Was there a measurable regeneration impact? Social benefits: How has your scheme met local social needs? For residential developers: have the buildings and/or spaces provided affordable housing, training and employment, cultural, and health and well-being benefits to the residents and users? How has your scheme raised the quality of life of users? Please provide the following documentation for the scheme in a Powerpoint presentation and PDF: Design objectives; Site analysis drawings; Basic Background data (e.g. area of site, number of units etc); Masterplan; A selection of images including street views ELIGIBILITY: The award is open to any UK based developer or homebuilder, but limited to one entry per company. National Urban Design Awards 2015 Central London Wednesday 9 March 2016 National Urban Design Awards 2016 Urban Design Developer of the Year

I enclose :  An A word summary of the company’s approach to design   A short narrative addressing the judging criteria   The documentation of the built scheme required in Powerpoint  and PDF   A cheque for £40 made out to the Urban Design Group  Entry Form Signature:Date: Company Name: Company address & contact details of individual submitting entry address and telephone number Name and location of the development cited in your entry Scheme Name: Location: Completion Date: DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 21 August 4pm All entries should be sent by to to arrive no later than 4pm on Friday 21 August Large files may be sent by DropBox or a similar file sharing In entering the awards, the entrants agree that aspects of the shortlisted schemes can be used in UDG publications, including the journal Urban Design, news releases and on the web. Questions SHORTLISITING: Finalists Shortlisted entries go forward to the next stage: a national vote by practitioners involved in urban design, and will be invited to present their entries as 2-minute pre-recorded videos or Powerpoint presentations at the Awards event on the evening of Wednesday 9 th March 2016 at a central London venue. Urban Design Group, 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ Registered Charity National Urban Design Awards 2016 Urban Design Developer of the Year National Urban Design Awards 2016

The Stages of the Competition… Stage 1 – Shortlisting of Finalists Entries will be submitted to a panel for initial consideration. Up to four entries will be selected to go forward to the next stage and invited to submit a 100 second video for screening at the Awards Event and subsequent uploading to Youtube. The panel (none of whom will be associated with any of the entries) will include:  An academic  A professional working in private practice (usually the recipient of the previous year’s Practice Project Award).  A public sector professional (usually the recipient of the previous year’s Public Sector Award).  A patron of the UDG.  An editor of Urban Design.  The Chair of the UDG Awards Working Group. Stage 2 – The Awards Event (London, March 2016) The finalist videos will be screened to the audience and the winner announced at a prestigious award event in London.. The winner of the award will receive an award certificate and their entry will be published in Urban Design. The UDG encourages the Developer to invite the whole team of consultants to the Awards event as they will also be recognised for their role in the success of the development. Deadline for receipt of entries30 October 2015 Panel meets to consider entriesNovember 2015 Notification of shortlisted entriesDecember 2015 Reception and presentation of awards9 March 2016, London Schedule of dates: