Finalists announced for 2009 Waterways Renaissance Awards
A project to regenerate the waterfront in Castleford in West Yorkshire, the creation of a series of self-guided walks along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Chorley for visually impaired people and plans for the construction of a linear park along the Connswater river in Belfast are just a few of the diverse and inspiring schemes to reach the finals of the 2009 Waterways Renaissance Awards.
The winners will be announced at a prestigious awards ceremony and dinner, which will take place at Liverpool Arena and Conference Centre on Tuesday 31 March 2009. The event will be hosted by Jim Hancock, former BBC Political Editor and presenter of BBC News North West. The Waterways Renaissance Awards, run by The Waterways Trust and BURA (British Urban Regeneration Association), aim to recognise best practice in sustainable waterway regeneration and development throughout the UK. The nominations were judged by an independent assessment panel, comprising waterway, conservation and regeneration experts and chaired by Sir Peter Soulsby MP. Sir Peter Soulsby MP, chair of the assessment panel for the awards, said: “It is my great pleasure to announce this impressive list of exceptional projects that have made it to the final stage of the 2009 Waterways Renaissance Awards. On behalf of the panel, I would like to thank everybody who has submitted their nominations - the number and quality of which was overwhelming this year. All selected schemes are truly inspirational and their achievements will provide valuable lessons that will help drive the modern renaissance of our waterways. They provide examples of successful community engagement and partnership working and demonstrate the importance of waterways for the creation of new education, recreation and business opportunities.”
The categories for 2009 are:
Area-based Regeneration
Community
Design & Construction - sponsored by Crosby Lend Lease
Education & Learning
Historic Environment - sponsored by Peel
Innovation - sponsored by Halcrow
Natural Environment - sponsored by Defra
Partnership - sponsored by Mersey Basin Campaign and Regional Parks Xchange
Recreation & Tourism - sponsored by Morrison Construction
Strategy & Masterplanning - sponsored by Arup The finalists for the ten categories are: Animating the Canal, Clydebank
Boscastle Valency Flood Defence Scheme, Cornwall
Bringing the Leeds & Liverpool Canal to Life, Lancashire
Bude Canal Regeneration Project, Cornwall
Castleford Waterfront Regeneration, West Yorkshire
Connswater Community Greenway, Belfast
Cremorne Riverside Centre, London
Foxton Locks Inclined Plane, Leicestershire
Gloucester Tall Ships Festival, Gloucestershire
Irwell City Park, Manchester
Kingfisher Project, Burton-on-Trent, West Midlands
Kirkintilloch Canal Festival 2008, East Dunbartonshire
Lea River Park, London
Medlock Valley Project, Manchester
Montgomery Canal Restoration - Aston Nature Reserve Extension,
Oswestry, Shropshire
River Thames Alliance, Marketing Partnership
Riverside Bridge, Cambridge
Rooting Around, Yorkshire Waterways Museum, Goole, East Riding
Salmon Homecoming Project, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Speirs Locks Masterplan Framework, Glasgow
Tall Ships Race Liverpool 08, Merseyside
The Avenue Washlands, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
The Saturn Project, Ellesmere, Cheshire
Water Rail Way, Boston & Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Washlands Flood Storage Reconstruction, Dagenham, East London
Waterfront Wakefield, Yorkshire
Wellington Street Swing Bridge, Hull, East Yorkshire
Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Canal Corridor Biodiversity
Project, West Midlands
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