The team at Boffa Miskell and Stantec have just joined an honour roll of recipients of a Commonwealth Association of Planning (CAP) award.  Here at NZPI / Te Kōkiringa Taumata we think it’s great to see New Zealand’s planning profession in the spotlight. 

The Milford Opportunities Masterplan Milford Sound-Piopiotahi project, winner of our own NZPI Best Practice Award – Strategic Planning and Guidance, has now received international recognition with the award for Planning for Conservation of the Built & Natural Environment and Cultural Heritage for 2022.

The CAP Awards are for outstanding planning achievements in the Commonwealth and seek to champion the very best examples of planning practice across Commonwealth countries. This year’s awards were given out in four categories, with nominations from across 30 professional planning organisations under the Commonwealth umbrella, representing over 40,000 professional planners.

Planning in Aotearoa, New Zealand has continued to compete on an international stage. NZPI have been encouraged to see that New Zealand based projects were the winners of the inaugural CAP award in 2018, an award in 2019, commendations in 2020 and the winning two awards in 2021 precede the latest success of Boffa Miskell and Stantec this week.

The Milford Opportunities Masterplan Milford Sound-Piopiotahi project was prepared jointly by Boffa Miskell and Stantec. It sets a strategy for land use, transport and infrastructure, ecological conservation, natural hazard management, cultural experience and the operation of tourism within Piopiotahi Milford Sound, Milford Road, Te Anau Basin and the surrounding area. It’s more than a masterplan of one place, it’s a journey. In the words of the team the project it’s about “transformation, projection and rejuvenation of the hikoi”, incorporating Te Anau, the ecologically extraordinary Milford corridor, and of course our majestic Pipopiotahi

Join us in congratulating the Boffa Miskell – Stantec team and celebrate the continued success for planning in Aotearoa.

Find out more about their international award-winning project here