About this award
This award celebrates landscape projects that make a special contribution to the enhancement of heritage and culture. This may be a landscape scheme which emphasises the enhancement of natural or built heritage; or it may be a plan, assessment, or strategy focussed on heritage, restoration, or conservation. The award recognises how the project celebrates the past, functions well for the present, and looks to the future to ensure long-term success.
This award is open to different types of landscape works, including (but not necessarily limited to):
- Assessment or research
- Planning document
- New process or intervention
- Design: concept/outline
- Design: detailed/technical
- Design implementation
- Management strategy
Entries have now closed
Greenwich Park Revealed by The Royal Parks © Chris O’Donovan
Plant, Basingstoke by Grant Associates © Andy Stagg
Judging criteria
In selecting an eventual winner, the judges will focus especially on the degree to which the entry:
- demonstrates a comprehensive understanding and analysis of historical and cultural context which has informed proposals
- has evidence of engagement throughout the process and outcomes providing a range of benefits to local communities
- has interpretation of heritage landscape and features in final scheme
- has sensitive integration of contemporary measures and materials to address climate emergency, with particular attention to the carbon footprint of the construction process and procurement of materials
- relies upon thorough and robust analysis
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
- The work must have secured approval or funding (make sure you provide these details in the submission form)