Diary Dates
Registration opens:
9th April 2008
Registration closes:
11th July 2008
Submission deadline:
1st September 2008
Judging panel
Director North West |
Belinda Irlam-MowbrayBelinda was appointed Director of RIBA North West in 2002. She heads a team of 14 who have a wide remit of providing support services to chartered architects and the promotion of design excellence to a variety of audiences.
Key initiatives include the RIBA Part 3 course and examination; Architruck, a peripatetic exhibition facility; the RENEW Rooms in the centre of Liverpool and Places Matter! a joint RENEW/RIBA project which includes a regional design review panel and young persons education programme.
Belinda sits on the board of Cube, Manchester and the Liverpool John Moores Design Academy Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Le Corbusier Project Team which will bring an important international exhibition of his work to Liverpool during Capital of Culture 2008.
Development Director |
Rob MasonRob Mason has gained an extensive experience of delivering major mixed use regeneration schemes through his work in the public and private sectors.
Rob graduated from the University of Liverpool with a Degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters Degree in Civic Design. He subsequently developed an excellent knowledge of the workings of local government having held positions in the Planning, Highways and Transportation, Economic Development and Estates departments of Liverpool City Council over a 13 year period. He successfully delivered a range of projects including major City Centre infrastructure schemes and a schools PFI project.
Rob was then asked to join the successful Speke Garston Development Company to help expand its role into a city wide delivery organisation. At the resultant Liverpool Land Development Company Rob had particular responsibility for the Aintree, Croxteth and Gilmoss areas and the regeneration of the Speke Housing Estate. He also worked as a special adviser to the Council on the feasibility of providing a new Magistrates Courts complex in Liverpool City Centre.
In 2004 Rob joined Neptune Developments, being made Development Director in January 2006. Since Rob joined the company, he has been instrumental in delivering a step change in the activities of the organisation.
Open Culture
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Prof. Phil Redmond CBEBest known for creating three of Britain’s longest running drama programmes, Grange Hill (30 yrs); Brookside (21 yrs) and Hollyoaks (11yrs). He has written extensively for radio, television and stage and is currently a regular columnist for the Liverpool Daily Post.
One of the first 2% to go through the comprehensive system Phil is now proud that in 1989 he was awarded Honorary Chair of Media at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). Since 1993 he has been a Fellow and Member of the Board of Trustees, as well as Chairing the International Centre for Digital Content (ICDC) also based at LJMU.
A founder member of the first regional branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Manchester; a council member of the Independent Producer's Association (IPPA) and a former national negotiator for the Writer's Guild of Great Britain (WGGB).
In 1996, Phil was elected as Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and in 1997 he was also appointed Vice Chair of the newly created North West Film Commission and became a Patron of the Commission in July 1999.
He was awarded a CBE in June 2004 for ‘services to drama’ in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Throughout 2005 he was Chair of the Merseyside Entrepreneurship Commission and is currently Patron of the Merseyside Hub for Enterprise Insight.
In June 2005, Phil and Alexis Redmond sold Mersey Television, at the time still Britain’s largest independent drama production house employing over 500 people and “downsized” to a small film production company. One of the acknowledged strengths of Mersey TV was its links to and support of education and culture. In 1998, Brookside became an integral part of the National Year of Reading through the Brookie Basics literacy clinics.
He joined Liverpool’s Capital of Culture Board in November 2006 and became Deputy Chair and Creative Director in September, 2007 which he described as taking on the organisation of a “typically Scouse wedding”!
Phil and Alexis Redmond have long standing links and are major benefactors of National Museums Liverpool, as well as Liverpool John Moores University and the Open Culture project for 2008, an alliance of the ICDC and local media partners.
Chartered Civil Engineer |
Henry RoweStarting his career in 1972, Henry spent his first 7 years working mainly overseas on site supervision as well as port design and development projects.
Since joining Royal Haskoning as Senior Engineer in 1980, Henry has worked on an abundance of projects including planning and design of ports and waterways, covering port master planning, port and berth layout planning, port operations and cargo handling.
Gaining chartered engineer status in 1978, Henry has shared his extensive knowledge by writing and presenting numerous specialist technical papers to a global audience.
After working for Royal Haskoning for a total of 28 years, Henry has held Directorships for the company's Maritime and Coastal & Rivers operations for several years. More recently Henry has taken his seat on the Group's main Board of Management and looks forward to the next stage of his career.
Senior Regeneration Executive |
Richard TraceyRichard was born in Liverpool. He trained as a Town Planner at the University of Central England, though he is at pains to point out that he has now recovered from this. After a brief exile in the south east, he returned to his native North West to work in Salford on a wide variety of regeneration assignments, specialising in spending other people’s money on more interesting things than they had intended it for. A dozen years finally took their toll and in 1998 he found himself back in his adopted home on the Wirral, initially to wrestle with the Wallasey SRB and later the Northwood SRB in Knowsley, championing deprived communities, even though they thought he was actually working for the Council.
Having completed an MBA focussed on area regeneration and neighbourhoods, he began work at the NWDA in 2003. As Head of Excellence he was charged with resurrecting the region’s efforts linked to the Urban Task Force and the Egan Skills Review, resulting in the formation of RENEW Northwest – the regional centre of excellence for sustainable communities. There followed a further brief spell tinkering in the Merseyside sub region, from which he emerged in 2006 to engage with the NWDA land regeneration portfolio across the region. He steers the region’s largest ‘green’ regeneration initiative with the Forestry Commission – the £59M ‘Newlands’ programme – alongside responsibility for the future development of the Places Matter! programme and the Regional Parks agenda, including Board membership of the Mersey Waterfront.
Richard lists his hobbies as: spending all his money on his daughter’s ponies; drinking three-shot Grande Latte; and, trying to understand the world in pictures.
Supported by The Liverpool Architectural Society