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The Housing Design Awards are promoted by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in partnership with the National House-Building Council, the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Town Planning Institute.
They are presented annually for projects or completed schemes of four or more
dwellings which reflect the highest standards in housing design.

Categories
Entries should be sent in now for projects or completed schemes in England consisting of a minimum of four dwellings. Schemes may include either new build or conversion and improvement, or a combination of both.

Developments may consist of houses, bungalows, maisonettes, or flats, or any
combination of these. Schemes including non-residential uses may be entered, provided housing constitutes the main element.

Although some shared domestic facilities are allowed, for example, in housing for the elderly or disabled, or in shared flats for student accommodation, schemes such as nursing homes would not be eligible.

Projects
To be eligible, projects must have detailed planning permission, but not yet be complete and occupied.

Completed schemes
Schemes completed and occupied since January 2003 may be submitted for a completed scheme award. Previous project award winners will be automatically shortlisted, and the entry fee waived.

Judging
Judging is carried out by a panel consisting of representatives of each of the four promoters and the Housing Corporation for the Affordable Housing award. They are looking for the very best in housing design and planning, and consider a wide range of factors:

Relationship to surroundings and neighbourhood
Response to site constraints and opportunities
Layout, grouping and landscaping
Planning of roads and footpaths
Handling of garages and car parking
Attention to safety, security and accessibility
External appearance and internal planning
Sustainability in construction and maintenance
Finishes, detailing and workmanship

Exhibition
The Awards will be announced at a lunch time ceremony in the Banqueting House in London’s Whitehall, and an exhibition of 60 or so selected entries, including the winners, will be staged over the following 2 months at the RIBA. A touring version of the exhibition will then visit towns and cities throughout England over the following 9 months.

Images and details of every entry submitted will also be displayed on the Awards website from June.

National Award
As last year, there will be a National Award for the most outstanding Award winner among completed schemes. This Award will be made for the scheme which, in the opinion of the assessors, most successfully fulfills the range of criteria employed in judging.

Special Awards
Completed schemes will also be considered for additional recognition in each of the following categories:

For the best development by a major housebuilder.
For the best development by a medium housebuilder.
For the best development by a small housebuilder.
For the best example of affordable housing, a special award chosen by the Housing Corporation.

Schemes with dwellings in more than one category will be considered for each of these.

Closing deadline for entries 01 April 2005

How to Enter
1. Complete the Entry Form
2. Send this with a well presented description of your project. This must be contained on one side of one A1 board (landscape format), following the design grid and layout instructions illustrated here, and must include the following:

Location Plan, showing the site in relation to its surroundings Layout Plan, with north point and scale clearly marked, and showing the relationship of the proposed building to any others on the site. The extent of the project itself should be outlined in red

Typical dwelling plans and elevations with the scale clearly marked

In conversion and improvement projects, photographs of the existing buildings.
In other cases, photographs of the site and/or adjacent developments

Text setting out the brief, town planning context, materials used, landscape
treatment, timetable, and any other special features of the project which you wish to bring to the assessors’ attention

In the case of schemes involving more than 50 homes where the majority of
dwellings are houses, a second A1 board may be submitted, but an increased entry fee will be payable (see (4) below)

3.This year we are creating a permanent record of every entry on the Awards website.

To ensure that your scheme is properly covered, please supply a CD-ROM with
digital versions of all the images used on the display board(s) (including plans,
sections, elevations etc) with your entry.

4. Following the packaging guidelines, send the presentation board(s) and CD-ROM to The Awards Secretary, Design for Homes, The Building Centre, London to arrive by 01 April 2005, with your entry fee of £100 + VAT (£117.50 total), or, in the case of two boards, the increased fee of £170 + VAT (£199-75 total). Cheques should be made payable to The Housing Design Awards. Entries by fax will not be accepted, but confirmation that an entry has been despatched in time to meet the deadline may be given by fax.

The quality of presentation of your submitted entry is very important: unfortunately, every year some entries fail to win awards, or cannot be considered for exhibition simply because of poor descriptions, unclear drawings or failure to adhere to the layout requirements. Please remember that, if exhibited, your entry will form part of a high quality display which will be on public exhibition for the best part of a year, and that the layout requirements are there to ensure a coherent presentation.

We are unable to return entry material. The decision of the assessors is final.
The sponsors cannot enter into any correspondence about individual awards.

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