Building awards honour Dales designs

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority's Best Building Design Awards aim to promote examples of innovative and sensitive developments.

Coun John Blackie, the national park authority's member champion for planning, said: "We want to get the message across that we are much more open to good new design than people think, and that we positively encourage innovative approaches.

"There is always the proviso that new development should 'fit in', but this does not necessarily mean yet more of the same."

The competition is open to anyone who owns or has been involved in a development that has been substantially completed since January 1, 2003.

Entries can also be submitted by anyone who thinks that a particular development has been successfully carried out and is worthy of an award.

Details of the competition can be found at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/bbda, by contacting Lesley Knevitt on 01969 652326 or by emailing [email protected]