This is the long list of entries. The finalists will be revealed in the week of 12 February.
Best New Car Park
Sponsored by: 3C Payment
This site-specific award recognises outstanding car park design. It is open to local authority and private car park operators, owners, architects, developers and construction companies. Car parks entered may be multi-storey, underground, surface or park & ride sites.
Plot 270 Car Park, Cambridge (Kier Construction)
Ocado, Hatfield (Radflex Contact Services and Stirling Lloyd Construction)
Waitrose, Haywards Heath (IKO and Knight Asphalte)
Victoria Leeds, Leeds (Hammerson)
Handyside Car Park, King’s Cross, London (Nualight)
Q-Park Deansgate North, Manchester (Q-Park)
Southampton General Hospital, University Southampton NHS Trust and Interserve Prime
(Radflex Contract Services and Briggs Amasco)Amazon, Tilbury (University Southampton NHS Trust Commercial Estates Development Partnership (CEPD) and Interserve Prime, Radflex Contact Services and Stirling Lloyd Construction)
(Organisations making nomination in brackets)
Best Car Park Refurbishment
This category is open to local authorities, private operators and key contractors working together to produce an outstanding reimagining of an existing multi-storey, underground or surface car park. Projects should create clean, bright, well signed, safe and structurally sound facilities. They should be aesthetically pleasing and safe gateways to destinations such as town centres, airports, rail stations, retail developments and leisure facilities.
Princess Square, The Lexicon, Bracknell (Schroders Real Estate and USL StructureCare)
Grand Arcade, Cambridge (Cambridge City Council, Makers Construction and Stripe Consulting)
Ruskin Square, Croydon (Potter, Church & Holmes Architects and Stanhope)
St Giles, Norwich (Norwich City Council and Makers Construction)
Dolphin MSCP, Poole (Borough of Poole and Concrete Repairs Ltd)
Mander Centre, Wolverhampton (IKO, Radflex Contract Services and Rio Asphalt & Paving)
(Organisations making nomination in brackets)
Exceptional Parking Experience
Sponsored by:The Safer Parking Scheme
This award will be presented to the parking organisation that best demonstrates a commitment to providing excellent driver experience through exceptional customer service, active site management, high quality design and an overall attention to detail.
APCOA Parking, Valet Meet & Greet, Heathrow Airport
B4 Car Park, Birmingham
Broadway Bradford
Excel Parking Services and Doncaster Sheffield Airport Meet & Greet
London Borough of Hackney
JustPark
The Front Line Award
Sponsored by: PayByPhone
Parking can be a challenging profession. This award is dedicated to parking personnel who engage with drivers and the general public as a part of their day-to-day activities. This award will recognise excellent customer service, communication skills and community engagement. It also recognises staff working in roles that keep parking operations running. It is open to individuals or teams of civil enforcement officers, parking attendants, parking shop personnel, park & ride drivers and call centre staff as well as engineers, technicians and maintenance staff.
Heathrow Airport Blue Team, APCOA Parking
Paul Abbott, Senior civil enforcement manager, NSL
Youssef El Khouri, Civil enforcement officer, Croydon Parking Services
Jose Carlos Rodriguez, NSL pound manager, Tower Hamlets, London
Westminster City Council and NSL - #DontBeIdle campaign
Andrew Valentine, Warden area manager, UK Parking Controls
Customer services team, ZZPS
The Intelligent Parking Award
Sponsored by: Alpha Parking
The Intelligent Parking Award recognises smarter approaches to the planning and management of parking. The jury are looking for examples of 'joined-up' or lateral thinking which delivers solutions to parking needs or problems. The solutions may be ones applied to either on-street or off-street parking. They may address issues such as: catering for excessive demand for parking at a site or destination; balancing the parking needs of different user groups; overcoming parking fraud; improving road safety; making a site or service more environmentally-friendly, etc.
Cleverciti Systems – Parking sensors
Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth – Payment system upgrade
Croydon Parking Services – School parking pilot
London Borough of Hackney – Parking made easier
London Borough of Southwark – Draft kerbside parking strategy
London Borough of Waltham Forest, NSL and TES – Electric CCTV vehicle
Parkonomy and Castle Point Borough Council – Cashless payment
Somerset County Council and NSL – Delivering enforcement efficiencies
UK Parking Control (UKPC) – iNPR
Westminster City Council – Emissions-based parking charges
WPS, Cheshire West and Chester Council – Concessionary parking
Parking in the Community Award
Sponsored by: The International Parking Community
Parking is an essential public service and can be a positive contributor to local communities. This award will recognise people working within the parking sector who have engaged with and supported their local communities. It is open to: community engagement programmes; projects that see car parks become focal points of community activity; fund-raising initiatives, etc.
Bromley & Bexley Shared Parking Service – Blue Badge misuse campaign
Croydon Parking Services – School parking pilot
IKO, Radflex Contract Services and Rio Asphalte - Carbon offsetting the refurbishment of the Mander Centre car park, Wolverhampton
NSL – Dementia awareness
Plymouth City Council and Plymouth and District Accessibility Network (PADAN)
The Parking Innovation Award
Sponsored by: Makers Construction
The Parking Innovation Award recognises advances in the technology of parking. The innovation may be a new piece of parking hardware or a digital solution, such as software or online service. The innovation should be truly transformational, representing a significant advance on existing solutions.
2020 Data Lab and UK Parking Control (UKPC) – iNPR
ANPR International - gateGUARDIAN
APCOA Parking and Heathrow Airport – Vehicle Image Portal (VIP)
AppyParking – Signs to lines TRO mapping
Croydon Parking Services – School parking pilot
HUB Parking Technology and Westfield - Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City car park management systems
IPS (UK) – Revolution upgrade kit
JustPark – Predictive availability
Mobile Worker Plus – Integrated Application Framework
Newcastle upon Tyne City Council and Cale Access UK – Check in: Check Out (CiCo)
Newpark Solutions - Glide
Project Centre and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets – Electric vehicle infrastructure
Westminster City Council and Passport – ParkRight
WSP Traffic Support, Torbay Council, South Hams District Council and Mid Devon District Council and West Devon Borough Council: ANPR Spotter on the English Riviera and in Devon
ZatPark
Parking Partnerships Award
Sponsored by: PayPal
This award recognises the importance of partnership working in the parking sector. The award seeks to recognise partnerships that are deeper and more ambitious than a conventional term contract.
APCOA Parking and Heathrow Airport Safer Airport Team
APCOA Parking and London Luton Airport
Cheshire West and Chester Parking Services, Department for Work and Pensions, and Au fait Training and Consultancy
Croydon Parking Services
Derby City Council and Equita
Imperial and Videalert
London Borough of Haringey, PayByPhone, PayPoint and Civica
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham with BBFI and the Metropolitan Police
London Borough of Southwark and APCOA
Parkonomy and District Enforcement
Plymouth City Council and Plymouth and District Accessibility Network (PADAN)
Reigate & Banstead Borough Council and Parkmobile Group
Thurrock Council and Penham Excel
UK Parking Control (UKPC) and 2020 Data Lab
Westminster City Council, London Borough of Waltham Forest and NSL
WSP Traffic Support and London Borough of Newham
YourParkingSpace and Regus
Parking Person of the Year
Sponsored by: RingGo
This award is open to all local authorities and private operators that may nominate an individual parking employee who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to the industry and represents a 'model of excellence'.
David Coates, Head of sales and development, Parkonomy
Tim Quick, Supervisor, APCOA Parking at Exeter Airport
Darren Stoneman, Senior community protection officer, Plymouth City Council
Harrison Woods, Chief executive, YourParkingSpace
Parking Team of the Year
Sponsored by: Phoenix
This award is open to teams working for either a local authority or for a private sector organisation. The award recognises the work of both on and off-street parking operations, as well as back office/support services (including IT, press, marketing, maintenance and service departments).
APCOA Parking - Heathrow Authorised Vehicle Area,
APCOA Parking - Park2Travel, Leeds Bradford International Airport
Chichester District Council – Parking Services Team
Gunwharf Quays – Car Park Team
London Borough of Barnet and NSL
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham – Parking enforcement team
The Mailbox, Birmingham – Car park team
Newcastle City Council – Parking services
Project Centre – Parking consultancy team
UK Parking Control (UKPC) – Appeals team
YourParkingSpace – Customer service team
ZZPS – Customer services team
Young Parking Professional Award
Sponsored by: USL StructureCare & Pitchmastic PmB
This award recognises the rising stars of parking, people aged between 18 and 29 who represent the talent of the future. It is open to all local authorities and private operators to nominate an individual parking employee, consultant or contractor who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to their team and the wider parking sector. Candidates should be no older than 29-years-old on 1 April 2018.
Michael Wiktorko, Debt recovery and finance team leader, Hackney Council
Communication Award
Sponsored by Dukes Bailiffs
This new award recognises imaginative, engaging and informative approaches adopted by parking organisations to communicating with the public and other organisations. Entries may relate to marketing campaigns, public information or public consultations undertaken by both the public and private sector.
B4 Car Park, Birmingham - 'Parky'
British Parking Association - 'Know your parking rights'
Bristow & Sutor – Customer engagement
North Essex Parking Partnership (NEPP) – Social media strategy
Parkmobile Group – 'Creating big wins from integrated communications'
Safer Parking Scheme – 'The art of safer parking'
The Parking Matters Prize
Presented by: Parking Matters
Parking is an essential urban service without which towns and cities would cease to function. The award will be presented to a person, organisation or project in the UK or internationally that is fundamentally rethinking and reinventing the way in which parking is planned, designed, provided, experienced and marketed.
Recipient: CCV
The recipient is selected by Parking Review magazine in consultation with Parking Matters, a leading consultancy in the world of parking with whom we produce the annual Parking & Propertyconference.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Sponsored by: The British Parking Association
This special award recognises a parking professional who has made an outstanding contribution to the sector. The candidates will be based on nominations from within the parking sector. Parking organisations and professionals are invited to nominate an individual who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to the industry and represents a 'model of excellence' across their entire career.
Created and presented by Parking Review magazine, the British Parking Awards are an independent competition. In their 17th year, the awards recognised the leading examples of car park management, enforcement, design and team work.