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13 September 2024
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Created and presented by Parking Review magazine, the British Parking Awards are an independent competition. The awards recognise the leading examples of car park management, enforcement, design and team work.
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2024 Headline Award
The recipients will be selected by the jury from either the field of entries or wider parking sector.
MiPermit Inspiration Award
Sponsored by MiPermit
The MiPermit Inspiration Award recognises individuals and organisations that have made a significant contribution to improving parking. Inspiration Award recipients are exemplars of excellent practice that have inspired colleagues, clients and the wider parking community.
2024 Competitive Entries
These are competitive categories that are assessed by the jury.
The entries are published as a long list which is whittled down to a shortlist.
Parking Person of the Year
Sponsored by RingGo
This award is open to all local authorities and private operators that may nominate an individual parking employee who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to the industry and represents a 'model of excellence'.
The entries:
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Ann Cunningham, Head of Highways & Parking, London Borough of Haringey
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Kerry Griffiths, Digital Commercialisation, Enforcement, Governance and Innovation Manager, Derby City Council
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Fazal Kirwan, Road and Traffic District Manager, Hackney Council
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Gary Osner, Chief Executive Officer, ZZPS
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Charmaine Sweeney, Operations Manager, Meet & Greet Team, London Stansted Airport
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James Tark, Chief Executive Officer, Euro Parking Services
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Vaso Vaina, Managing Director, Architect, Stripe Consulting
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Michael Wiktorko, Senior Service Area Manager, Parking Services, Hackney Council
Rising Star Award
Sponsored by Flowcrete a Brand of Tremco CPG UK
The Rising Star Award shines a spotlight on the rising stars of parking. The recipients may be young employees or recent joiners of any age. Local authorities and private operators can nominate an individual parking employee, consultant or contractor who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to their team and the wider parking sector.
The entries:
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Newaj Ahmed, Civil Enforcement Officer, Hackney Council
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Muka Anyado, Suspensions Officer, Hackney Council
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Laura Benjamin, Road and Traffic Enforcement Apprentice, Hackney Council
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Nisha Damhar, Associate Director, WSP Liveable Places
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Elena Golita, Senior Parking Consultant, Project Centre
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Emma Homewood, Administrator, ZZPS
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David Majewski, Contract Monitoring Officer, NSL
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Jess McGregor, Architect, Stripe Consulting
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Sam Medhurst, Consultant, Project Centre
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Aimee Millin, Service Delivery Manager, NSL Manchester
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Tom Narborough, Senior Consultant, Project Centre
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Habiba Nessa, Policy and Project Officer, Hackney Council
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Andrzej Paszek, Junior IT Project Manager, Agena Group
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Kayleigh Salter, Administrator, ZZPS
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Ashna Sharma, Compliance Officer, Euro Parking Services
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Maciej Sobkowiak, Nuisance Vehicle Officer, Hackney Council
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Radoslaw Sztejna, Road and Traffic Enforcement Officer, Hackney Council
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Lee Ward, Parking Operations Manager, Greener Ealing
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Rebecca Westmacott, Parking Appeals Team Leader, South Gloucestershire Council
Parking Team of the Year
Sponsored by CDER Group
The Parking Team of the Year Award recognises the excellent work of both on-street and off-street parking operations. It is open to teams working in both the public and private sectors.
The entries:
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Brent Parking Team - London Borough of Brent and Marston Holdings
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Cornwall Council
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Durham County Council and NSL
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Euro Parking Services
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Hackney Council Parking Operations Team
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Hackney Council Parking Policy Team
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Havering Council
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London Stansted Airport Meet & Greet
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RingGo Customer Care Team
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Stripe Consulting
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ZZPS
Parking Operator of the Year
Sponsored by Stripe Consulting
The Parking Operator of the Year Award is presented to what the jury feel is the best parking facility in the UK. The category is open to new and established car parks owned by either the public or private sectors. The award recognises car parks that are managed, designed and maintained in a way that makes the start and end of each driver's journey a pleasant experience.
The entries:
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Apex Parking and St Johns Car Park, Liverpool
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B4 Parking
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Euro Parking Services
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London Gatwick Airport Valet Team
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London Stansted Airport Meet & Greet Team
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Q-Park
Communication Award
Sponsored by Zatpark
The Communication Award recognises imaginative, engaging and informative approaches adopted by parking organisations to communicating with the public and other organisations. It encompasses advertising campaigns, websites, social media and publications.
The entries:
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APCOA – Major incident response
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APN Group – APN forging an identity
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Croydon Council and WSP – Croydon’s new parking strategy
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Ethos – Parking strategy consultation for Basildon Council
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Euro Parking Services
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Hackney Council – Motorcycle communications campaign
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International Parking Community (IPC) – Request for data and call for evidence
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JustPark – London Commuter Campaign
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North Essex Parking Partnership (NEPP) – Communications strategy
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YourParkingSpace – New user journey
The Back Office Award
The Back Office Award recognises the excellent work of back office teams working for local authorities, private parking operators, transport consultancies and civil enforcement agencies.
The entries:
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APCOA – Customer Service Centre
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Durham County Council and NSL
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Euro Parking Services – Anesa Nyakudya, PCN Correspondence Team Lead
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Hackney Council – Parking Enforcement Support Team
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Hackney Council – Parking Operations Team
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Hackney Council – Parking Policy Team
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London Gatwick Airport – Valet Parking Team
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London Stansted Airport – The Meet & Greet Team
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Project Centre – Medway Parking Design Support Team
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ZZPS – Back Office Team
The Front Line Award
Sponsored by Orbility
Parking can be a challenging profession. The Front Line Award is dedicated to parking personnel who engage with drivers and the general public as a part of their day-to-day activities. This award will recognise excellent customer service, communication skills and community engagement.
The entries:
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Newaj Ahmed, Civil Enforcement Officer, Hackney Council
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Tufual Ahmed, Parking Warden Supervisor, Euro Parking Services
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London Gatwick Airport Valet Team
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London Stansted Airport Meet & Greet Team
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Faran Mahmood, Road & Traffic Enforcement Officer, Hackney Council
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Maciej Sobkowiak, Nuisance Vehicle Officer, Hackney Council
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Ellen Tooley, Civil Enforcement Officer, APCOA
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Mohsin Zafer, Warden Team Leader, Agena Group
Parking Partnerships Award
Sponsored by APT Skidata
The Parking Partnerships Award recognises the importance of partnership working in the parking sector. The partnership may involve pairings or groups of local authorities, companies, professional bodies, campaign groups and other stakeholders.
The entries:
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Aberdeen and technology providers – Imperial, Metric, PayByPhone, RingGo, TES and the National Parking Platform
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Cornwall Council and IPS Group UK
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Durham County Council and NSL
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Ealing Council, Greener Ealing and Taranto Systems
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City of Edinburgh Council, Project Centre and NSL – A collaborative approach to tackling pavement parking
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Hackney Council – Joint venture to tackle stolen vehicles, cloned vehicles, abandoned vehicles, untaxed vehicles and Blue Badge fraud
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Hampshire County Council and NSL
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Hikvision and Zatpark – EV bay parking violation detection solution
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JustPark and Creative Car Parks – The innovative partnership
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London Borough of Brent and Marston Holdings
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London Borough of Harrow and Taranto Systems – A digital initiative to enhance Harrow’s parking service
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Marston Holdings, City of Westminster and the Metropolitan Police
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Medway Council and Marston Holdings – Safer Healthier Streets Project
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National Persistent Evaders Database (NPED) – Hiding in plain sight
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Peterborough City Council and IPS Group
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RingGo & WPS Parking Solutions
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Smart Transport Hub and the London Borough of Redbridge
Parking in the Community Award
Sponsored by The IPC
Parking is an essential public service and can be a positive contributor to local communities. The Parking in the Community Award recognises people working within the parking sector who have engaged with and supported their local communities.
The entries:
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Euro Parking Services
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Hackney Council – Parking Policy Team in the community
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Lambeth Council – Lambeth’s Cycle Hangar programme and Cycle Hangar Manifesto
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London Borough of Waltham Forest – Empowering the community through virtual parking solutions
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Marston Holdings – NSL Brighton & Hove parking enforcement team
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Marston Holdings – NSL Manchester
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Marston Holdings – NSL Edinburgh and Social Bite
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National Persistent Evader Database (NPED) – Revolutionising vehicle compliance and enforcement
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PayByPhone – Donate Your Device scheme
Parking Technology Award
Sponsored by Tap2Park
The Parking Technology Award recognises advances in the systems used to manage parking. The innovation will be a piece of parking hardware, a device or a wider system that makes the management of parking more efficient and/or customer-friendly.
The entries:
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Anpriot
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CitiPark - CitiBrain PMS
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CSL Satellite
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Euro Parking Services
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Go2Sim – KAMi real-time ANPR monitoring
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Grid Smarter Cities – Kerb
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Hikvision – TandemVu ANPR Bullet Camera
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Lambeth Council – Continuous payment authority for emissions-based charging
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Luton Borough Council and Imperial – Streamlining PCN appeals
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National Persistent Evader Database (NPED)
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Newlyn – Utilising Artificial Intelligence and automation to enhance effective communication
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Parkingeye – ANPR Bay Management
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Parkopedia – In-Car Payments service
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Peterborough City Council and Imperial – A frictionless approach to moving traffic enforcement and exemptions
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RingGo – Scan & Pay
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Unity5 – Bay Monitoring
Best New Car Park
Sponsored by YourParkingSpace
The Best New Car Park Award is a site-specific award that recognises outstanding design and construction techniques that turn car parks into landmark structures. It is open to local authority and private car park operators, owners, architects, developers and construction companies. Car parks entered may be multi-storeys, underground facilities or surface sites.
The entries:
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Blackpool Central Multi-Storey Car Park – Ballast Nedam Construction and Stripe Consulting for Blackpool Council and Nikal
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Harwell Runway Deck Multi-Storey Car Park & Travel Hub, Didcot – SDC and Stripe Consulting for Harwell
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Fidelity Kingswood Multi-Storey Car Park, Tadworth – Bourne Parking for FIL Investment Management
Car Park Renovation Award
Sponsored by Concrete Preservation Technologies
The Best Car Park Renovation category looks at how car parks can be transformed into inspiring buildings with a genuine social value and can host a variety of uses.
The entries:
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Covent Garden Car Park, London – JustPark and Intelli-Park
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Crownpoint Car Park, Broughton Shopping Centre, Denton – British Land and ADJ Surfacing & Consultancy
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Swan Walk Shopping Park Car Park, Horsham – Stripe Consulting, Rateavon and Triflex for Horsham District Council
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The Plaza Multi-Storey Car Park, Wokingham – Cemplas, Westwood and Colliers International for Aviva Life and Pensions UK
Traffic Team Award
The Traffic Team Award is a new category recognising the skills and achievements of organisations responsible for implementing traffic and parking schemes such as controlled parking zones, TROs, permit schemes, payment systems, EV charging and a host of other essential services - including planners, engineers, consultants and contractors.
The entries:
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Derby City Council – What a difference 12 months makes!
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Hackney Council – Parking Operations Team
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Lambeth Council – Lambeth’s ambitious School Streets expansion programme
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Project Centre – Traffic and Parking Team
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Taranto and Capita Traffic Team – TfL ULEZ: The world’s largest clean air scheme
EV Charging Award
Sponsored by Go2Sim
The parking sector is playing a key role in the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), as reflected in the launch of Parking Review's special EVolution section and website.
The EV Charging Award recognises the development of innovative approaches to providing EV charging infrastructure, systems and services in car parks and at the kerbside. The category is open to parking providers, chargepoint operators and technology developers.
An EVolution Award
The entries:
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3ti – Papilio3 Solar Car Park
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Believ – Collaboration with Waltham Forest Council
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Cambridge City Council – EV success
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Evyve – Charging ahead
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Hikvision and Zatpark – EV bay parking violation detection solution
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Ohme
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Parkingeye – Evology Charging
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Parkopedia – EV Charging service
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PoGo Charge
2024 Special Awards
The recipients will be selected by the jury from either the field of entries or wider parking sector.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Sponsored by the British Parking Association
The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to a parking professional who has made an outstanding contribution to the sector over the course of their career. Parking organisations and professionals are invited to nominate an individual who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to the industry and represents a 'model of excellence' across their entire career.
2024 Rosette Awards
These are special awards reflecting key themes. Their presentations will punctuate the event, providing recipients and supporter sponsors with special moments on stage.
Connected Vehicles Award
Sponsored by Trellint
Satnav systems, digital mapping, mobile phones apps and ever smarter in-car systems are enhancing the ability of drivers to search for, book and pay for parking while on the move. The Connected Vehicles Award recognises the work being done to harness the potential of data and communications technology to enhance the parking experience of car, van and truck drivers.
The entries:
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Grid Smarter Cities
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Parkopedia
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RingGo
Accessible Parking Award
Cars enable people with limited mobility and a range of health issues to make independent decisions about how they travel. But the benefits of having a car and the Blue Badge scheme only work if parking is made available and kept accessible at destinations such as town centres, shopping centres, leisure venues, hospitals, transport interchanges. The Accessible Parking Award recognises work done to provide accessible parking and to ensure such spaces are not misused.
The entries:
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Hackney Council – Accessible parking and beyond
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London Borough of Haringey – ‘Our badge, our spot’
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Parkingeye – Putting an end to selfish parking with Bay Management
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Transport Scotland and Imperial – Blue Badge exemptions scheme for Low Emission Zones across Scotland