Parking Partnerships Award

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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.

The criteria:

The partnership may be:

• Cross-boundary working between local authorities

• A campaign designed to change driver behaviour and/or parking policy

• An initiative to develop new systems, techniques or technologies

• A project to draft and publish new policies or provide professional advice

• A long-term or innovative commercial arrangement (a partnership needs to be deeper and more ambitious than a conventional term contract).

The entry should include:

• Names of organisations within the partnership

• Names of key managers

• Nature of partnership: Formal, informal, campaign, contractual, joint venture, etc.

• Objective of the partnership

• Tasks undertaken by the partnership

• Extent of sharing of offices, staff, IT systems, etc.

• Evidence of success

• Future objectives and plans.

The judges are looking for evidence of:

• A partnership rather than traditional client-contractor deal

• Clear operational, financial or other benefits achieved from the partnership

• Joint planning, working and deployment of resources

• Open and clear communication between the partners and their respective stakeholders

• Potential benefit to wider parking sector as service and/or exemplar.

Please supply:

• Images

• Customer and client feedback/testimonials

• Press cuttings/Links to websites

• Details of other awards won.