Designing Places Awards, Scotland: Winner, Housing, Dates, Deadline, Houses Homes for Scotland Quality Award Scheme, 2008 e-architect

Designing Places Awards Scotland

Homes for Scotland Quality Awards winners: Urban Large Bellway Homes, Mondriaan, Maryhill, Glasgow Bryant Homes East, Hopetoun Village, Edinburgh Urban Small Tweed Homes, Provost Kirkpatrick Court, Peebles Rural Large CALA Homes, Briery Meadow, Haddington Rural Small CALA Homes, Orchard Lane, Dirleton Masterplanning The EDI Group for PARC Craigmillar, Greendykes North, Edinburgh The EDI Group for PARC Craigmillar, Wauchope Square, Edinburgh Judges' Special Award Bryant Homes East, Hopetoun Village, Edinburgh Designing Places Awards Homes for Scotland, which is intent on ensuring that the 35,000 new homes pledged by the Scottish Government will form part of high quality, integrated and sustainable communities, has launched a new award scheme to encourage best practice. The Designing Places Awards will not simply consider house types or stand alone developments but will embrace the government's 'place-making' agenda by rewarding those companies who are contributing to the creation of dynamic environments for future generations. The Homes for Scotland Quality Award Scheme, now in its sixth year, is open to the organisation's home builder members. These companies provide 95% of all new homes built for sale in Scotland each year. Stewart Maxwell MSP, Minister for Communities and Sport said: "The Homes for Scotland Awards are an opportunity to demonstrate that the Government's ambition is matched by those responsible for creating the high quality development that Scotland's communities deserve." Entries will be evaluated by an independent judging panel, Chaired by Scotland's Chief Planner, Jim McKinnon. He said: "I am confident that the projects which will emerge from the Awards process will help raise greater awareness of design issues, see high quality development which enhances a sense of place and identity as the norm rather than the exception and, in so doing, contribute significantly to sustainable economic growth in Scotland." The deadline for entries is Friday, January 18, 2008. Winners will be announced at the industry's annual lunch at which the Minister is expected to address an audience of over 650 members of the Scottish homebuilding industry. Homes for Scotland Quality Awards : 2008 Shortlist Civic Trust Awards Dynamic Place Awards Roses Design Awards Stirling Prize Scottish Design Awards RIBA Awards Saltire Awards World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe Comments / photos for the Designing Places Awards page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Designing Places Awards - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt Homes for Scotland – Website: www.homesforscotland.co.uk