Prestigious awards return with new South Downs Design Award

Prestigious awards return with new South Downs Design Award

May 4, 2021

The Sussex Heritage Trust’s annual awards have been launched, with a brand-new award promoting outstanding design in the National Park.

The only Sussex-wide Heritage Awards supports excellence in conservation, restoration, and the good design of newly-built projects, while also encouraging the use of traditional skills and crafts.

This year the National Park Authority is sponsoring The South Downs Design Award, which will go to a project that clearly demonstrates a positive contribution to the National Park, including schemes that have conserved and enhanced the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of the area.

A call for entries across nine categories was launched earlier this year and judging will begin next month.

Last year saw a total of 25 Award winners, of which eight featured in the South Downs National Park, including the Historic Stew Ponds Project at Arundel Castle and West Dean College Roof Restoration at West Dean College of Art and Conservation.

Winners will receive a hand-crafted slate presented by the President of the Sussex Heritage Trust, The Rt Hon Lord Egremont DL at a ceremony on 14 July.