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Housing Design Awards 2006

The Ryde, Hatfield, has walked away with the Historic Award 2006 at this year's Housing design Awards.

The new Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Ruth Kelly, presided over the awards ceremony and said:

"The second award I have been asked to make is the Historic Award. This is for a scheme that won an award in the past but still has lessons that we can learn from today. When a historic winner is singled out, it has to have something very special to stand out from a pool of nearly 900. This year's historic winner is a scheme that started a pattern for extended homeownership. House prices at the time - 1962 - meant that families on average incomes could not buy the home they wanted. These families were inspired to act for themselves by joining a co-operative for home ownership. Their ideas about community design were so clear and irresistible that those running a new town felt they had to support it."

"What this co-operative did illustrates just one approach from a range of routes to fulfilling choice. It began as a collective desire for better, more flexible houses and long-term community. It has proved its objective by never going out of fashion and on Sunday 16 July it celebrated its 40th birthday with many of its original residents either still there or returning to their spiritual home. That's enduring appeal. It's something the Georgians would have understood perfectly."

Housing Design Awards 2006

Short listed in the Project Scheme category - Bywater Court, Leeds

Building for Life - Silver Accreditation

What House? Awards 2006

Best Retirement Village - Denham Garden Village, Buckinghamshire

Sustainabiltiy Awards 2006

Low Energy Building of the Year - St Matthews Estate, Lambeth

Evening Standard Homes & Property New Homes Awards 2006

Commended in the Best New Development in the Affordable Homes category - St Matthews Estate, Lambeth

AJ's Sustainability Award 2006

Commended - St Matthews Estate, Lambeth

Building Awards 2006

Practice Achievement:

Short-listed as Building's Architectural Practice of the Year 2006
Short-listed as Building's Regeneration Architects of the Year 2006

LB Bromley Environmental Award

LB Bromley Environmental Award in the New Housing category winner - Ramsden Phase 1, Orpington