Garden City Heritage Awards

Prestige and Prizes for Letchworth Garden City Properties

Celebrating architectural excellence within the world’s first Garden City

Letchworth Garden City, the world’s first Garden City, is built on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard and is carefully planned to combine the best elements of town and country living.

It is a very special place with many outstanding qualities, where houses have been designed to harmonise with each other, and architectural features such as chimneys, dormer windows and bay windows add visual interest and variety to the street scene.

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation is committed to promoting the conservation of buildings and other environmental features of beauty or historic interest within Letchworth Garden City.

Introducing the Garden City Heritage Awards

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation invites you to enter the Garden City Heritage Awards.

The awards celebrate best practice in improving properties in Letchworth Garden City, giving public recognition to owners, designers and contractors who observe the highest standards of design and workmanship when carrying out restoration, alterations or new building work.

For the 2011 awards, there’s a significant prize fund of £12,000 to be distributed amongst the winning property owners.

You don’t have to own the property you nominate, as long as it’s in Letchworth Garden City and you consider it to have been tastefully and lovingly restored. The size and scale of the works may be large or small, but must have improved the property’s external physical appearance.

How to enter

It’s easy to enter the Garden City Heritage Awards. Just complete the application form on the middle pages of the attached PDF (including ‘before’ and ‘after’ photographs where possible), detach and send to the freepost address. Entry is totally free.

Owners, designers, contractors or any member of the public can submit an entry for any property, provided that in all cases the owner’s permission has been obtained.

You may submit entry forms for more than one set of works, or more than one property.

When must the works be completed by?

To qualify for the 2011 awards, works must be completed between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2010.

Closing date for entries

The closing date for receipt of application forms is 5pm on 4 January 2011. Entries are welcomed at any time prior to this date.

The Categories

A. Extensions
B. Frontages and Greening
C. Timber windows and doors
D. Best improvement to a group of three or more houses
E. Best new housing
F. Best new or refurbished shopfront
G. Other works