Environment Award

Each year at the AGM, a review is made by the Townscape Group of selected additions or changes to our local environment, both built and natural.

This may be a new or renovated building or improvements to an open space or amenity. An Environment Award is presented to the facility which is judged by a panel of judges to have most improved the environment of our town. Evidence of previous award winners may be seen around the town in the form of a plaque affixed to buildings, where permitted by the owners.

In September 1980, the BCA committee decided that, in order to stimulate interest in the local environment, an annual award should be made for the work which is considered to have contributed most to the enhancement of Berkhamsted or Northchurch. ‘Work’ can mean a new building, extension, renovation or landscaping; large or small, anything from a building complex to a garden.

The Citizens’ award was set up to try to foster public awareness on the good additions or changes to the built environment during the year. If possible, a plaque would be awarded to the project that makes an outstanding contribution to the town and other developments would receive commendations as appropriate.

The following is a list of those awards presented and commendations. The year refers to the AGM but the award/ commendation applies to works completed during the previous calendar year.