NZPI Annual Awards celebrate the important role of the planning profession in the community and highlight the best of the best from around the country. They are presented at the NZPI Conference.
Nominations for the NZPI 2024 Annual Awards are now open.
Please email your nominations to vanessa.white@planning.org.nz no later than 4pm 19 January 2024
Best practice awards are made to an individual NZPI Member, or to any organisation, group, or body whose members include members of the New Zealand Planning Institute. The Best Practice awards recognise outstanding creativity, innovation, and service. So, if you have a project, no matter how small or large, that is innovative and reflects best practice then please take the opportunity to celebrate and share your work and learnings by submitting a nomination to the NZPI Annual Awards.
The Awards Committee select the winner of the Nancy Northcroft Planning Practice Award, NZPI's supreme practice award from the winners of the best practice categories and the Rodney Davies Project Award.
The NZPI awards celebrate best practice in the following categories:
This award recognises strategic planning and/or guidance which exemplifies excellence in the practice of planning. The practice of planning is defined in broad terms to enable entries from all areas of planning practice.
This award recognises the work of planners in developing and implementing innovative policies, plans and projects to address climate change issues in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
This award recognises policies, plans, and projects which produced outcomes promoting inclusive communities and/or enhanced the health and wellbeing of communities. Community diversity is defined in the broadest terms including ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic status etc.
This award recognises excellence in the development of innovative digital tools which enhance and facilitate the practice of planning.
This award recognises non-statutory planning which exemplifies excellence in the practice of planning. The practice of planning is defined in broad terms to enable entries from all areas of planning practice.
This award recognises innovation and creative excellence in the undertaking and completion of a physical work or project that facilitated excellence in the practice of planning.
Other awards presented by NZPI recognise graduate planners who are emerging within the profession, planners who make a significant contribution to the profession by extending the theory or practice of planning, and the outstanding service of non-planners.
This award is for a meritorious contribution to the establishment and development of a distinctive Aotearoa/New Zealand Planning Kaupapa/Planning Framework.
This award is intended to recognise a significant contribution by a NZPI student, graduate or Intermediate (emerging planner) member to planning practice, the mana of the profession, planning research or Institute affairs at the local or branch level in the first 8 years of their membership. The award is presented annually at the NZPI Conference and includes a financial contribution of $1,200.
Click here for full details and the nomination form
The Lance Leikis Award is proudly sponsored by:
The Alfred O. Glasse Award shall be made annually by the Institute in recognition of outstanding services to planning by non-planners.
If you would like to submit a nomination for the Alfred O. Glasse Award, please email admin@planning.org.nz for details.
