British Parking Award 2018 are live!

The 2018 competition is now open for entries

Parking Review magazine has launched the 2018 edition of the British Parking Awards. Now in their 17^th year, the competition encourages both public and private sector organisations to nominate people and projects that represent the best in parking management, design and innovation.

The awards encompass both the on-street and off-street sides of the parking sector. The diverse nature of the parking sector means that the competition has categories that cover buildings, technology and people.

British Parking Awards 2018: The categories

• Best New Car Park
• Best Car Park Refurbishment
• Exceptional Parking Experience
• Intelligent Parking Award
• The Communication Award
• Parking Innovation Award
• The Front Line Award
• Parking Team of the Year
• Parking in the Community
• Parking Partnerships
• Young Parking Professional
• Parking Person of the Year
• Lifetime Achievement Award
• The Parking & Property Prize

The competition is free to enter and the deadline for submissions is Friday 15 December.

Entries are judged by a panel of experts made up of parking managers, transport and parking consultants, representatives from the major parking associations and bodies representing the motoring and freight industries.

The winners will be announced at a lunch held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on 9 March. The awards ceremony is an event attended by a wide range of people, including parking managers, parking attendants, car club operators, technologists, app developers, property developers, architects, engineers and building companies.

A guest compere hosts the awards ceremony, which is one of the highlights of the UK parking calendar. Past hosts have included Ade Adepitan, Alexander Armstrong, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Adrian Chiles, the Revd. Richard Coles, Hal Cruttenden, Jon Culshaw, Hugh Dennis, Richard Hammond, Shappi Khorsandi, John Sergeant, Debra Stephenson and Meera Syal. The 2018 host will be announced soon.

The awards are supported by organisations, companies and consultancies working in the parking sector. 

British Parking Awards 2018: Sponsors and supporters

• Alpha Parking
• British Parking Association (BPA)
• International Parking Community (IPC)
• Makers Construction
• Parking Matters
• Phoenix Commercial Collections
• RingGo
• Safer Parking Scheme (Park Mark)
• 3C Payment

The British Parking Awards were created and are presented by Parking Review magazine. The event is organised by Landor LINKS, which provides knowledge networks for people working in transport, parking and the urban realm.

Full details of the event can be found by clicking here