Objective
This award recognises an outstanding development approval outcome.
This award is presented to small, medium or large scale projects that demonstrate vision, innovation, improvement, communication, collaboration and community benefit. Projects should advance the practice of development assessment to achieve positive land use planning outcomes. The size of a project is not necessarily a determining factor.
Developments may also be recognised for overcoming significant challenges or hurdles to realise outstanding planning outcomes in an urban, regional or rural setting.
Nominated projects and processes have obtained a development approval or been constructed.
Eligibility
Nominations may be made by a member of the public, developer or an individual or organisation engaged in planning practice. Approvals obtained through the State Administrative Tribunal are ineligible.
Selection Criteria
Nominations should address how the objective of the award responds to the following selection criteria:
| Vision & Innovation | Demonstrate how the nomination presents an original, innovative or performance-based approach to achieve a positive outcome. Nominations are to clearly identify why this approach achieved a superior outcome. |
| Improvement | Demonstrate how the nomination aligns with planning scheme or organisational objectives and advances a beneficial outcome for the assessment process, site, place, community. The improvements should be measurable and transferable to other projects or processes. |
| Communication & Collaboration | Demonstrate how the proposal went over and beyond a usual development or assessment process to deliver highly collaborative and authentic development outcome. The project must recognise the important role of relevant stakeholders to achieve an innovative, balanced and beneficial outcome. Note: Nominations are to provide evidence that the local authority has been notified of the nomination. Demonstration of highly collaborative and authentic community engagement is desirable and will be considered favourably, but is not essential. |
| Community Benefit | Demonstrate how the nomination has or will successfully implement a significant community benefit, including the existing or potential benefits. |
Compulsory Materials
Written
All entries are to be in electronic format only and must include:
| Nomination Statement | Maximum of 5 x A4 pages (which is approximately 2500 words) in a suitable sized font. There is no minimum number of words, however, the nomination statement must address the selection criteria and outline the key issues and ideas addressed in the project and the key contribution the project makes to best/leading practice and learning for the planning profession |
| Project Summary | Which includes an abstract of no more than 250 words using the Project Summary Sheet for use in award promotions and media. If you haven't done so yet, download the Project Summary Template. |
| Optional Material Summary of Nomination Material |
The summary should be around 200 words and written in clear, everyday language (non-technical) to be used for 老澳门六合彩图库's promotion of award nominees and winners, including through media releases. It is not intended to be media quotes, but rather an explanation of the project or person being nominated and the why it reflects great planning. The purpose is to raise awareness about planning and planning's value to the general public. This does not form part of the judging material. |
Additional supplementary material may be submitted electronically where it is the subject of the nomination. Examples include: a book, PhD thesis, strategic plan, framework document. However, the judges will refer primarily to the Nomination Statement.
Consent and Licenses
| Proof of Consent | Proof of Consent to enter the Nomination into the Awards is required from the client/initiating body and all other entities involved in the project. Download a Proof of Consent Form. |
| Licenses | Licenses from copyright/intellectual property/moral rights holders are required so 老澳门六合彩图库 can reproduce, exhibit, publish or communicate the specific words, images, plans, illustrations, and all other material you submit with the Nomination. You may already have the license to grant 老澳门六合彩图库 use of the material (it may have been covered in your contracts with the client/initiator and other entities), in which case no license forms are needed. Otherwise, rights holders should complete a license form to accompany the Nomination. If you do not provide any license forms, you are warranting that you already have license to grant 老澳门六合彩图库 use of all the materials you provide. Download a Materials License, Attribution and Schedule Form. |
Images
A minimum of five (5) high quality images of the project are required for promotional purposes. Images embedded in the Nomination Statement must also be provided as standalone image files.
Image file names should succinctly describe the subject matter. For example ‘louise street piazza open day.jpg’ , not ‘IMG00023.jpg’
The basic minimum requirements for electronic images are:
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File format: *.jpeg or *.png |
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Resolution: 300ppi & File Size: 5MB max. |
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Dimensions: ideally 1920px x 1080px |
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No special characters/symbols in file names (e.g. +!@) |