The Paviors’ Award is a competition for excellence in street paving and is run in conjunction with the Local Government News competition for schemes constructed and opened in 2005/6. There are six categories and about eighty schemes were considered for the Paviors award this year. The judging panel is interested in projects which demonstrate imaginative design, possibly with sculptured or water features and which use attractive and high quality materials.
In making the award to The Old Bailey in the City of London the judges were very impressed by the approach adopted by the City of London Planning Department and their Consultant designers Burns and Nice Ltd and also the high quality of the construction carried out by F.M. Conway Ltd.
The Master David Laing accompanied by the award judge Mike Cottell presented a certificate and street “button” to Deputy Owen-Ward the chairman of the City Planning and Transport Committee on the site on the 25th July 2006.
Further certificates were presented to the Client, Designer and Contractor at the Paviors annual banquet in the Mansion House on the 28th September.
This award has been made each year for the last seven years, previously Bournemouth, Gosport, Newcastle, Downham Market and Chepstow have received the award.
Mike Cottell