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 or surface sites.
Winner:
Lincoln Central Car Park, Lincoln
John Roberts Architects and Willmott Dixon
The Intelligent Parking Award
Sponsored by: Alpha Parking
The Intelligent Parking Award recognises smarter approaches to the planning and management of parking. The jury is looking for examples of 'joined-up' or lateral thinking that deliver solutions to on-street and off-street problems or needs. The new approaches could be parking policies or operational projects.
Joint winners:
Kerb: Intelligent kerbside management
Grid Smarter Cities
Scoping Smart Mobility
Liftshare
Communication Award
Presented by Parking Review
This award recognises imaginative, engaging and informative approaches adopted by parking organisations to communicating with the public and other organisations.
Winner:
3PR: Encouraging better parking around schools
Essex Parking Partnerships
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.
Joint Winners:
Park & Give charitable donations
Bank Park
The Wythenshawe Action Plan
Manchester City Council & NSL
Parking Technology Award
Sponsored by: Makers Construction
The Parking Technology Award recognises advances in the technology of parking. The innovation will be a piece of parking hardware, a device or a wider system that makes the management of parking more efficient and/or customer-friendly.
Joint Winners:
Parking payment systems, access control and validation systems, and ANPR and CCTV system
Canterbury City Council & Sagoss
Taranto Fleet Bureau
WSP
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.
Winner:
Estate team
Lulworth Estate, Dorset
Parking Partnerships Award
Sponsored by: PayPal
This award recognises the importance of partnership working in the parking sector. The partnership may involve a mix of local authorities, companies, professional bodies, campaign groups and other stakeholders.
Winner:
North Essex Parking Partnership (NEPP)
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-street and off-street parking operations. The award recognises the work of both on-street and off-street parking operations.
Winner:
Newcastle City Council Parking Services
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'.
Winner:
David Taylor
Head of Shared Parking Service, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham & Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Young Parking Professional Award
Sponsored by: USL StuctureCare and 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.
Joint Winners:
Emily Adenuga
Commercial Account Executive, YourParkingSpace
Antonia Hobden
Key Account Manager, JustPark
Reinventing the Car Park
Award Sponsored by: InaParc Ltd
The new Reinventing the Car Park category looks how car parks can be transformed into inspiring buildings with a genuine social value and can host a variety of uses.
Winner:
Peckham Levels, London
Southwark Council, Make Shift and APCOA
Green Parking Award
Sponsored by: HUB Parking Technology
This new category recognises the many ways in which parking policy, design and management practice can help improve the quality of the environment.
Winner:
Cycle Park and Go network
London Borough of Waltham Forest
Parking as a Service Award
Sponsored by: Debt Recovery Plus
This new category will recognise how parking providers can create a positive experience for motorists. The category rewards work done by parking providers to create easy-to-understand, non-confrontational and person-centric services.
Winner:
Customers in a Medieval city reap the benefits of digital services
Canterbury City Council and Imperial
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.
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.
Winner:
The Department for Transport
Best Car Park Refurbishment
Sponsored by: The Safer Parking Scheme (Park Mark)
When car parks are refurbished they are expected to be clean, bright, well signed, safe and structurally sound. The aim of the award is to showcase how a car park can be transformed into a truly inspiring building. The Best Car Park Refurbishment award will recognise property owners and parking operators who have worked with teams of architects, engineers, contractors and other stakeholders to renovate an existing car park to the highest possible standard.
Winner:
Bullring Centre Car Park, Birmingham
USL StructureCare, Waterman and Workman for Hammerson and Bullring Partnership
Car parks - Special projects
The British Parking Awards recognise excellence and achievement in the design, construction and renovation of car parks. This 'breakout' award will recognise smaller and specialist car park projects (such as surface sites and roof decks), architectural elements of a car park (such as a façade) or an innovative construction or civil engineering technique.
Winner:
Priory Street Car Park, Colchester
Colchester Borough Council with Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service, English Heritage and North Essex Parking Partnership
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.
Winner:
Nigel Williams
Managing Director, Parking Matters
The MiPermit Inspiration Awards
Presented by MiPermit
The MiPermit Inspiration Awards recognise individuals, or organisations, that have made a significant contribution to improving parking. The recipients will be exemplars of excellent practice that have inspired colleagues, clients and the wider parking community. Several MiPermit Inspiration Awards will be presented throughout the ceremony and the event concludes with the presentation of The Grand Prix.
Recipients may be drawn from the field of competitors or selected by the jury based on nominations received from the parking sector.
Winners:
Preston Bus Station
Makers Construction, Mark Brock Consulting Engineers, Corrosion Prevention and Conlon Construction for Lancashire County Council
Marion Fisher
Enforcement Team Leader, Dorset Councils Partnership
Jo Abbott
RAC Foundation
The Special Jury Prize
Presented by the jury
The persistent evader campaign
Penham Excel, the British Parking Association and Conduent
Created and presented by Parking Review magazine, the British Parking Awards are an independent competition. In their 18th year, the awards recognised the leading examples of car park management, enforcement, design and team work. View the Winners
