Call for entries - Housing Design Awards housing for older people HAPPI category

This year's Housing Design Awards will again honour developments that best respond to the housing our ageing population criteria outlined in the 2009 HAPPI report.

The Awards which are a government-industry partnership set up by Harold Macmillan in 1961 use a multidisciplinary panel of judges to select the best schemes with planning permission (Project Awards) and the best occupied developments (Completed Awards). Among the judges will be Homes and Communities Agency's James Berrington and Design for Homes David Birkbeck, two of the team behind the HAPPI report. Other judges will represent the sponsor Department for Communities and Local Government, NHBC, RICS for surveyors, RTPI for planners, RIBA for architects and the Home Builders Federation.

The winners of the inaugural HAPPI awards in 2010 were Helena Partnerships' Heald Farm Court (opens new window) in Newton-le-Willows (Completed Award), which was part funded by the Department of Health and supported by the Housing LIN, and Berkeley Homes/Viridian Kidbrooke Extra Care scheme (Project Award).

This year's winners will be filmed and presentations will be led by Housing Minister Grant Shapps MP in a central London location in July.

Entries can be uploaded online at www.hdawards.org (opens new window) where there is an archive of 2010 winners, as well as all those going back 50 years.

The deadline for 2011 entries is end of April.