Entries invited for Housing Design Awards

The Housing Design Awards are now open for entries.

Now in their 76th year, the HDAs are supported by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the GLA, Homes England and the member bodies for the three major built environment professions – RICS, RIBA and RTPI.

The Awards include Project schemes, which must have detailed planning approval when the judges meet, and Completed schemes. Each year a number of Project winners become the subject of animations explaining salient design features. Completed winners are often filmed so that the development team is interviewed to explain design strategies, with the residents’ comments on the scheme’s liveability captured by the film makers.

The HDA programme is boosting its mission to promote good design practice with investment in the searchability of 100s of schemes in its website database. All shortlisted schemes from 2017 to 2023 are now searchable by a range of themes and criteria, such as SuDS. Earlier years dating back to 2006 will follow by Easter.

Pictured is Lincolnshire’s Cyden Homes which won two awards in 2023 with its Par 3 scheme of 103 houses near Cleethorpes which addressed overheating from climate change. It also won a Building with …