Category sponsored by Bourne Amenity
About this award
This award celebrates projects which provide tangible benefits towards addressing the biological diversity crisis and which promote the delivery of measurable biodiversity net gains. This may be designs which emphasise the enhancement or connectivity of habitats for biodiversity; or a wider place-based ecological assessment or management strategy.
This award is open to different types of landscape works, including (but not necessarily limited to):
- Assessment or research
- Planning document
- Design: early/concept
- Design: detailed/technical
- Management strategy
Entries have now closed
Eden dock by HTA Design ©Tim Crocker
Eden dock by HTA Design ©Tim Crocker
Judging criteria
In selecting an eventual winner, the judges will focus especially on the degree to which the entry:
- has sought to make a positive contribution towards healthy, connected habitats for biodiverse species
- has mitigated other environmental harms and pollution wherever possible, including air and water pollution
- has looked at innovation in the delivery of biodiversity benefits as part of an integrated scheme
- demonstrates tangible benefits for instance through Biodiversity Net Gain, delivery on BAP Targets and benefits to local communitites
- has provision of access, education and interpretation
Limitations
This award is open to individual Chartered, Fellow or Academic members of the Landscape Institute or an office, department or section headed by a chartered member of the LI.
To enter this Award:
- The work may be of any scale
- Part of the awarded activity must have taken place between July 2022 and July 2026
- The work may be a stand-alone project or form part of a larger project