The Aylesbury Society....
caring for all the town's built environment
Good Design Award
In 1984 the Society started a Good Design Award hoping to promote aesthetic design and acknowledge innovative restoration. Originally, the scheme was for shop-fronts and was sponsored by the former Aylesbury based company Heuga. The first winners were K Y Green in Cambridge Street. In the following years other shop fronts winning awards included The Body Shop in the High Street, Weatherheads in Kingsbury and The Grapes in Market Square. In 1988 the award was modified to be made once every two years for new and refurbished buildings. Award winners have included the Methodist Church in Buckingham Street, new offices in the old Prebendal House kitchen gardens, a footbridge over the canal, an underpass in Cambridge Street, Equitable Life's new building next to the Blue Leanie and the County Museum extension. In 1998 a butcher's shop won the award. In 2000 the award was sponsored by Ron Miller and there were joint winners, flats in Granville Place & 31/33 Kingsbury. In 2002 a nursing home in Bicester Road was awarded the prestigious plaque. In 2004 HFP architects sponsored the award and new build cottages in Walton Green and Wendover Road won the top prize. In 2006 and again sponsored by HFP architects there were only two entries and the judges deemed that neither were worthy of an award. In 2008 there were 5 entries including new apartments on the former Schwartzkopf site and the refurbished Duck Farm Court. The Judges finally decided that the Fairview Homes flats on the former Nestles factory site in the High Street had the edge on the Buckingham Court apartment block on the corner of Buckingham Street and Oxford Road.
Good Design Picture Gallery Click here.
