Celebrating three decades of connecting people, place and nature.

The LI Awards is an annual celebration of people, place and nature, and the myriad ways that landscape projects can connect them. Held this year on 3rd November, it was the Awards’ 30th anniversary, a tribute to the longevity of their impact and success.

To mark the occasion, this year’s ceremony looked back at 30 years of LI history, and celebrated the accomplishments, projects and people who have been a part of this journey, and helped the LI to achieve its aim of protecting and enhancing the natural and built environment for public benefit. Within this story, not only have the LI Awards consistently demonstrated the ways that landscape practice has responded to the demands of a changing world, but they have pointed to how it is shaping its future. This year, entries across the board point towards a future in which landscape practice plays an essential role in helping the built and natural environment sectors deliver on their goals around climate, biodiversity, and health. Without doubt, this will remain the focus of the landscape profession in the vital years ahead.

Taking home the prestigious President’s Award, presented by President-elect of the Landscape Institute, Carolin Göhler, was ‘Challenging Public Health Inequalities Across Bradford District’, a wideranging scheme by Bradford Metropolitan District Council. The project, which also won the ‘Excellence in Public Health and Wellbeing’ category, tackles public health disparities by integrating green and blue infrastructure, highlighting the vital role of the environment in health outcomes.

‘Mayfield Park, Manchester’, a project by Studio Egret West, won the ‘Excellence in Landscape Design’ and ‘Excellence in Place Regeneration’ categories, while both PRP and The Paul Hogarth Company also won two awards each.