NLAPP Awards Ceremony

NLAPP Awards

Since 2019, in recognition of World Town Planning Day, NLAPP has been hosting an annual awards program with two different award categories:

NLAPP Community Builder Award

This award celebrates projects or nominees who fit under one or more of the following categories:

1. Building more complete communities.
2. Excellence and innovation in land use planning, such as inclusive or accessible planning methods or techniques.
3. High standard of urban design excellence, such as innovative or accessible site design.
4. Infill or redevelopment projects that fit well within the surrounding context contribute to a sense of place and the building of a creative community.
5. Nominees or projects that improve or enhance the quality of public space through the inclusion of elements of creativity, beauty, or whimsy in their design or implementation.

NLAPP Jack Allston Memorial Award

1. This award honours the memory of Colonel Jack Allston. He was the designer of the first provincial Urban and Rural Planning Act and laid the foundation for professional land-use planning in the province at the provincial, regional, municipal and local levels.  In recognition of his foundational work in professional planning at the national, regional and provincial levels, Jack was also appointed as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners.
2. The Jack Allston Memorial Award is to recognize excellence in the coverage of local or provincial planning issues by the news media and to raise public awareness of planning issues and professional planning.

2024 NLAPP Award Winners

NLAPP is pleased to announce the following 2024 NLAPP Award Winners:

The 2024 Community Builder Award was presented to:

• Conservation Corps of Newfoundland & Labrador (CCNL)

Since 1992, CCNL has spread the approach of environmental and cultural conservation; involving crowds of young people each year in Green Teams, providing useful and meaningful employment, and working with local municipalities and groups for community benefit. The Conservation Corps has worked on municipal climate sustainability, water conservation, and efforts in the watershed of the Waterford River flowing through Paradise, Mount Pearl and St. John’s. The Conservation Corps provides internships for young people and recent graduates all across the Province, in groups as diverse as Food First NL, the Corduroy Brook Nature Centre, and the NunatuKavut Community Council. CCNL also provides school presentations plus resources for educators, spreading the conservation message.  They are building a planning approach to the wider community.

Julia Schwarz (NLAPP), Councillor Rex Hillier (Town of CBS), Ryan Brazil (CCNL)

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The 2024 Jack Allston Memorial Award was presented to:

• Leila Beaudoin

Leila Beaudoin, a free-lance multi-award-winning journalist operating from Cliff and Anchor Studios on the Great Northern Peninsula in northern Newfoundland, was awarded the 2024 Jack Allston Memorial Award for her 2024 documentary “All Eyes on the Water: A Climate-Focused Documentary from Coastal Newfoundland” (2024) https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6460092. Broadcast on CBC NL on July 2, 2024.

Ms. Beaudoin looks at the changing climate along the Great Northern Peninsula and its effects on the people living on the Atlantic Ocean. While planning is not specifically mentioned, many of the topics touched on in the documentary are planning issues. The documentary also shows the interconnected nature of communities and their natural environment. See also https://leilabeaudoin.com/

Leila Beaudoin, Award Winner (Joined Ceremony Virtually)
Stephen Jewczyk (NLAPP), Peter Allston (Allston Family), Julia Schwarz (NLAPP)

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Past Award Winners

Community Builder Award

1. East Coast Trail Association
2. Stella’s Circle
3. Heritage NL
4. First Light Newfoundland and Labrador

Jack Allston Memorial Award

1. Sarah Smellie of The Scope
2. CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, in recognition of their work on the Newburbia series
3. John Gushue of CBC for his articles on regional and local planning. Hope Jamieson for her article in The Independent on how planning is indispensable for good city governance
4. The Shoreline and The Northeast Avalon Times monthly newspapers
5. Gregory French, Lawyer of Mills Pittman and Twyne Law Offices