Planning and Architecture
Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning 2018
July 19, 2018 by planningarchitecture 3 Comments | Category Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning 2018, Uncategorized
The Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning are one of the Government’s most prestigious awards. They celebrate achievements in planning, right from the detail of processing through to the bigger picture of creating places which will become the legacy of our professionalism.
With 2018 being the Year of Young People, we introduced a fifth category for SAQP 2018. The full list of categories are:
- Children and Young People
- Partnership
- Place
- Plans
- Process
We received over 50 applications across the five categories, you can see all the applications which were shortlisted by the judges on our interactive map.
In addition to the SAQP Awards for projects, the Scottish Government also has two linked Awards – one for Personal Achievement in Planning and the other is the People’s Choice in Planning.
Personal Achievement in Planning Award (PAPA)
This Award is to recognise an individual person, team, local authorities, consultants, community groups, developers, public agencies plus volunteers and voluntary organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to planning. This can be for their contribution to a particular project or for lifetime recognition of commitment to the industry.
We received three nominations and the following two people were shortlisted by the judges:
- Hugh Crawford; and
- Mike Galloway
People’s Choice Award (PCA)
The People’s Choice Award allows anyone to vote for their favourite shortlisted SAQP entry. The idea is that this Award gives everyone a chance to get involved and express their support for whatever they consider to have been a great project in 2018.
Next Stages in the Awards
Interview / Site Visit
- SAQP: Shortlisted applicants have been contacted to make arrangements for either a site visit or an interview date which will take place in September 2018. This stage in the Awards process provides an opportunity for applicants to expand upon their original written submission. Whether selected for a site visit or a short interview, applicants will be asked to prepare a short video which will form the basis of a brief presentation for the judges.
- Personal Achievement in Planning: Shortlisted applicants have been contacted to make arrangements for an interview date which will take place in September 2018.
- People’s Choice Award: There will be an opportunity for the public to vote for their favourite over the summer. The poll will close in late September 2018.
Recommendations and Ceremony
On completion of the interviews and site visits, for the SAQP and Personal Achievement in Planning Award, the Judges will finalise their recommendations to the Scottish Ministers. The ceremony where the results of this year’s awards will be announced, will take place in Edinburgh in late November.
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Well Done West Dunbartonshire Council for your success in the SAQP awards on Wednesday. I would be very interested in finding out a bit more about your elected member pre-app process.
We had the opportunity to see the beautiful pots in Dumfries this summer .We are from Canada and it is so warming to see neighbours working together to beautiful their communities. An act of love for their communities and of course Dumfries .I look forward to more trips to your lovely part of Scotland.Having family there certainly assures our return.
I love what has been achieved in Queen street and McClellan street, dumfries. This street had such a bad reputation even though some lovely families live there. Usual story. Someone buys the house and rents out. Luckily Systrans stepped in and helped. It is such a joy to walk up this street. People have flowers in front gardens and pots at their doors. Well done. It makes me smile.