At the prestigious 2009 Urban Development Institute of Australia’s (UDIA) National Awards for Excellence, held on Thursday 2nd April, Landcom’s ‘Prince Henry at Little Bay’ received the grand President’s Award as well as the Masterplanned Residential Development prize.
The UDIA President’s Award is the ‘best of the best’ awarded to the project deemed the most outstanding of all eight national category winners. The industry awards are an annual program that recognises distinction within the urban development industry.
Landcom Managing Director, Sean O’Toole, said the industry awards were an endorsement of Landcom’s standing as innovators in masterplanning liveable communities.
“The awards are a landmark achievement for Landcom,” Mr O’Toole said.
“Landcom’s vision for Prince Henry was to create a benchmark for sustainable coastal urban renewal by integrating first-class design within an environmentally sensitive, coastal heritage site. One of our guiding principles is that residents should be entitled to live in communities that are safe, sustainable and make the best use of a site’s natural beauty.”
Landcom’s masterplan transformed the former hospital site to a new residential and community precinct that balances abundant, green corridors and open space, ecological wetlands, extensive new plantings and bushland regeneration, with modern architecture and heritage buildings. A crowning achievement has been Landcom’s insistence that 80% of the 85 hectare site be retained for the community’s enjoyment and use.
Acclaimed as a ‘modern coastal classic’, the Prince Henry site has now earned 16 major industry awards, including recently the 2008 Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Premier’s Prize, for excellence across sustainability, urban design, heritage and public accessibility.
The UDIA Awards for Excellence are recognised as the highest accolade that can be awarded to development projects in Australia. The 2009 UDIA National Awards were across eight categories: Masterplanned Development, Residential Development, Medium Density Housing, High Density Housing, Urban Renewal, Environmental Excellence, Affordable Excellence and Seniors Living.
ABOUT PRINCE HENRY AT LITTLE BAY
Prince Henry at Little Bay is a new coastal community now emerging on the southernmost tip of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. Master planned and master developed by Landcom, Prince Henry encompasses 85 hectares of prime coastal land, 80% of land at Little Bay which will remain in public ownership; and only 35 hectares which will be built on. Approximately 800 dwellings will be constructed, including prestige homes, apartments and aged care, together with a small commercial/retail village, a community centre, accommodation for seven on-site community groups and retention of the Coast Golf Course. Under Landcom’s stewardship, 19 heritage buildings will be retained and restored, rare bushland is being protected, and Design Guidelines ensure a world-class built environment. To date, Landcom has partnered with Stockland, Brookfield Multiplex/St Lukes Aged Care and Sunland on the Prince Henry site. www.princehenry.com.au.
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ABOUT LANDCOM
Landcom is a leading master planner, facilitator and developer of living communities in NSW, striving to deliver projects that set new standards in social, environmental and economic sustainability. For close to 30 years, Landcom has developed residential, commercial and industrial properties, producing over 60,000 lots and dwellings. In 2002 Landcom became a State Owned Corporation and a property development arm of the New South Wales Government. Landcom is unique in that it is the only developer in the world measuring its performance on social and environmental achievements as well as financial outcomes.
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