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Rising Star Award

1st August 2023

Entry is open to individuals nominating themselves who are employed in the acoustics profession and hold some membership of the Institute of Acoustics.

 

Entries should include an endorsement from a senior manager within their own organisation making sure they are copied into the email submitting the entry.

 

More information about the award and the application form can be found here.

 

Completed application forms should be emailed to info@theanc.co.uk

 

The submission deadline is Friday 22 September 2023 and the shortlist will be announced on 29 September 2023.

 

All entries shortlisted for the award will be invited to the invitation-only event on the evening of Wednesday 25 October 2023 at the Houses of Parliament, Palace of Westminster.

Noise Abatement Society John Connell Awards 2017 – ProPG wins Soundscape Award

2nd November 2017

On Tuesday 31st October the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defra Thérèse Coffey presented the team who produced the ProPG Planning Guidance with  the Soundscape award at the Noise Abatement Society 2017 John Connell Awards, the ‘Noise Oscars’, held at the House of Commons.

 

This landmark Guidance complements the UK Government’s National Planning Policy Framework and Guidance to provide practitioners with an industry-recommended approach for the first time for new residential developments both internally and externally. It advocates full consideration of the acoustic environment through state of the art design principles from the earliest possible stages of the design and development control processes.

 

Full press release available here – John Connell 2017 ProPG press release