THE Bayside Built Environment Awards are on again. Community members can nominate outstanding design and architecture in buildings that they believe best contribute to Bayside’s built environment.

Bayside Mayor Councillor James Long encouraged people to be part of the 2009 Built Environment Awards that would celebrate the best of Bayside’s built environment.

“Bayside features some of Australia’s most innovative building designs, which accommodate a large range of uses. The Built Environment Awards intend to help raise community awareness and understanding of design, landscape and heritage issues, and encourage quality urban design and architectural outcomes in Bayside.

“I see the Awards as providing an opportunity to reinforce and encourage the message that development should be responsive to and respective of the high levels of existing amenity that is valued by the Bayside community,” said Cr Long said.

Categories include:

• Best new dwelling
• Best new medium density housing development
• Best new or renovation to a commercial building
• Best heritage renovation or restoration
• Best environmentally sustainable design
• Best extension to an existing dwelling
• Most creative building design.

To be eligible for nomination all entries:

• must be located within the boundaries of the City of Bayside
• must have been completed, occupied or ready for occupation by the end of June 2009
• must have been completed not more than 3 years ago (at the discretion of the judging panel)
• must not have received an award or commendation in previous Bayside Built Environment Awards.

Nominations close on Friday 10 July 2009. The successful award winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Brighton Town Hall in October 2009.

For more information or for a nomination form, visit the Building and Planning section of the website or contact Council’s Urban Designer Dale Kelly on (03) 9599 4607.