Nominations open for Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2020

     To promote greening, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) is holding the Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2020 to commend private property developments that excel in landscape design and horticultural maintenance. Nominations for the competition are open until April 15. Application is free of charge.
 
     The award aims to bring about sustained environmental improvements in private property developments and encourage private bodies to incorporate more quality green elements into the planning and management of horticultural projects for the benefit of such developments.
 
     The entry must be situated within Hong Kong and be managed, designed or built by a private body. The landscape greening areas of the entry must be for communal use or accessible by the public or residents. Entries may be nominated by the developer, management company, design company, owners' organisation, landscape or horticultural company of the property with prior consent from the owners' representative group of the property concerned.
 
     The award is presented in five categories. Details are as follows:
 
Domestic property:
 
(1) Large-scale Domestic Property (with a site area of 20 000 square metres or above)
(2) Medium-scale Domestic Property (with a site area from 2 000 sq m to below 20 000 sq m)
(3) Small-scale Domestic Property (with a site area under 2 000 sq m)
 
Non-domestic property (such as hotels, shopping malls, commercial buildings, schools under the Direct Subsidy Scheme (private premises) and private schools):
 
(4) Large-scale Non-domestic Property (with a gross floor area of 40 000 sq m or above)
(5) Small and Medium-scale Non-domestic Property (with a gross floor area under 40 000 sq m)
 
     Each category is divided into three groups according to the age of the property.
 
i) Properties below six years of age
ii) Properties between six and below 21 years of age
iii) Properties 21 years of age or above
 
     Completed nomination forms together with all necessary documents must reach the Secretariat of the Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2020 (11/F, Leisure and Cultural Services Headquarters, 1-3 Pai Tau Street, Sha Tin) on or before April 15 (no later than 5pm for submission in person; for postal submission, the date of postmark will be taken as the date of receipt).
 
     The prospectus and nomination form can be downloaded from the LCSD webpage at www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/green/property/index.html. For enquiries, please call 2601 8026.
 
     The Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2020 is organised by the LCSD and co-organised by the Home Affairs Department, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, the Institute of Horticulture (Hong Kong), the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, the Professional Green Building Council and the Hong Kong Association of Property Management Companies.