2010 Building for Life Awards
March 29, 2010 | Levent OZLER
Entries are open for the Building for Life awards which each year celebrate the best new homes and neighbourhoods in England.
The 2009 awards showed that around the country housebuilders are getting to grips with design and creating the kind of places where people want to live.
Two of last year's winners received the highest scores given to new housing developments since the Building for Life initiative began in 2002. Lime Tree Square in Street, Somerset, a development of 138 homes, redefines the idea of the square and the street to create a distinct sense of community.
And at Cross Street South in Wolverhampton, a development of 30 affordable homes proves that a run-down urban environment does not need to stifle style and ambition.
Wayne Hemingway, chair of Building for Life, said that it was pushing developers, architects and planners to think much harder about what makes a good home, about what people want, wherever they are.
The deadline for entries is May 28, 2010.
more: buildingforlife.org/awards/how-to-enter (127)
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