Each year the RTPI South West Chair presents a special award* during the annual RTPI South West Awards for Planning Excellence celebration.
Launched in 2024, by Alexis Edwards, the annual Chairs Award is now focussed on celebrating the 'unsung heroes of planning'.
Nominations now open for 2025
If you are working with a planner in your team or another organisation and would like them recognised for their work, then please do nominate them. The nominee could be recognised for their great initiative for getting the job done, perhaps they have been innovative in their approach, led or collaborated on a great project for example. The nominee could be a great team motivator, a role model or even a mentor to their peers. These planners are those that generally going above and beyond and should be recognised.
Let’s celebrate the great work that the people behind planning do for our region.
To nominate, all you need to do is tell us in no more than 300 words as why that Planner* should be recognised and email this to [email protected]
The deadline for nominations is 23.59 on 31st March 2025
*The nominee must be a member of the RTPI in any class.
*Please note that this is a separate regional only award to the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence and this category will judged by the 2025 Regional Chair Dawn de Vries together with the South West Regional Management Board. Winners of this award do not go through the to the National Awards.
Picture below: - Nominees from the Chairs Award 2024 together with the 2024 RTPI SW Chair Alexis Edwards and 2024 President Lindsey Richards. Find out more about the nominees and the Winner Daniel Tyrrell
