About this award
This award celebrates a person, group, or organisation that has left, or aims to leave, a significant, lasting legacy to the landscape profession, to public perception of landscape, or to the environment.
That legacy could be embodied within a single project or a body of work, it could have been achieved through lobbying and advocacy, or it could even be through an enduring contribution to education, research, policy or practice.
If you feel your work has, or will have, an enduring legacy, then please nominate it for the Brenda Colvin Legacy Award.
This award is open, but not limited to:
- Local Authority Parks and Open Spaces
- Trusts or other independent/joint venture bodies
- Estates and heritage parks and gardens in private ownership
- Government bodies and agencies
- Community groups and residents associations
Entries have now closed
Yongqing Fang, Guangzhou – historical and cultural district “micro transformation” sample © The Research Institute Of Historic Environment Conservation and Regeneration, SCUT
Kingsbrook © Barratt David Wilson Homes
What we are celebrating
There are many ways in which a lasting legacy can be achieved. Below are just some of the ways past entrants have demonstrated this:
- Enduring contribution to knowledge and practice: Advancing landscape education, pioneering research, shaping policy frameworks or elevating professional practice in ways that continue to inspire and inform.
- Commitment to inclusion, access, biodiversity and climate action: Championing equitable opportunities, embedding biodiversity and resilience into projects, and driving climate‑positive outcomes that have reshaped the sector.
- Transformative projects or programmes: Leading or influencing initiatives or projects whose vision and impact have become benchmarks, resonating and evolving long after their delivery.
- Inspiring the next generation: Advocating for the value of landscape, engaging new audiences, mentoring emerging talent and nurturing the future leaders of our field.
- Positive impact on community health and wellbeing: Designing places that enhance physical and mental wellbeing, foster social cohesion and deliver lasting benefits to people and the environment.
Judging criteria
This award will be scored by the LI College of Fellows against our Judging Criteria:
- Sustainability
- Value
- Professionalism