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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.
The 2023 Competitive Category Entries
These competitive categories are being assessed by the jury.
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'.
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Andrew Burnside, Head of National Accounts, Ireland, Smart Parking
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Charles Cridland, Chief Information Officer, YourParkingSpace
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Karen Day, Parking Manager, Nottingham City Council
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Phil Hammer, Parking Operations Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council
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Dan Hubert, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AppyWay
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Tim Gunn, Compliance Manager, Parking Services, Haringey Council
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Milko Jovic, Art Director, Flowbird
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Helen Moore, Data Analyst, Agena Group
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Jade Neville, Head of User Experience, Conduent Transportation
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Chris Whapples, Structural and Parking Consultant, Stripe Consulting
Rising Star Award
Sponsored by CPG Europe
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.
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Vass Constantinides, Senior Consultant, Smart Transport Hub
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Genesio De Costa, Contracts Monitoring and Support Officer, Hackney Council
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Nisha Damhar, Associate Consultant, WSP Liveable Places
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Nicolle Davenport, Legal and Compliance Assistant, Parking Control Management (UK)
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Shannon Kelsey, Administrator, ZZPS
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Joshua Macdonald, Business, Products & Communications Manager, Cornwall Council
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Helen Moore, Data Analyst, Agena Group
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Emma Moses, Training Manager, Conduent Transportation
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Tom Palin, Onboarding and Implementation Senior Specialist, Unity5
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Harry Smith, Technical Manager, Stripe Consulting
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Andra-Gabriela Stoian, Team Leader, Hackney Council
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Mollie Underwood, Head of Learning & Development, YourParkingSpace
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.
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Agena Group Environment Committee
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APCOA UK Lambeth Parking Team
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B4 Parking, Birmingham
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Cornwall Council
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Durham County Council & NSL
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Hackney Council Parking Enforcement Team
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Compliance Team, International Parking Community
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Kent County Council
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London Borough of Islington Parking Services
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London Borough of Tower Hamlets Parking & Mobility Services
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Nottingham City Council Parking Services
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YourParkingSpace Data Team
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ZZPS
Outstanding Car Park Operator
Sponsored by Stripe Consulting
The Outstanding Car Park Operator Award 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.
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B4 Parking, Birmingham
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Durham County Council
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EF International Parking Services
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Parking Control Management (UK)
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Q-Park
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St John’s Shopping Centre, Liverpool with Apex Parking & APT Skidata
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Victoria Leeds
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YourParkingSpace
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.
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Flowbird – Video campaign
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The Parking & Enforcement Plan – Hackney Council
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Car Park Design – Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)
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Bringing more Sustainable Streets to Lewisham – Lewisham Council
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We're standing out from the crowd – RingGo
The Back Office Award
Sponsored by Newlyn
The Back Office Award recognises the excellent work of back office teams working for local authoritires, private parking operators, transport consultancies and civil enforcement agencies.
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Customer Service Centre, APCOA UK
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Notice Processing Team, Cambridgeshire County Council
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Parking Team, Folkestone & Hythe District Council
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CCTV Team, Hackney Council
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Compliance Team, International Parking Community
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Administration Team, Parking Control Management (UK)
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Transfer360
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Liveable Places Parking Team, WSP
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Engineering Team, YourParkingSpace
The Front Line Award
Sponsored by tap2park
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.
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Rose Ansah, Senior Civil Enforcement Officer, London Borough of Islington, NSL
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Alex Asquith, Parking Operative, Intelli-Park and UK Parking Control
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Darren Crombie, Front Office and Pound Manager, Penham Excel
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Josh Jolly, Quality Control and Success Team Lead, YourParkingSpace
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Paul Moorton, Nuisance Vehicle Officer, Hackney Council
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Adrian Rapa, Senior Operative Team Leader, Parking Control Management (UK)
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Kehinde Okubule, Civil Enforcement Officer, Hackney Council
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Andra-Gabriela Stoian, Team Leader, Hackney Council
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Resmije Zeka, Senior Civil Enforcement Officer, APCOA UK
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.
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Agena Group & boatfolk – Eco-Moorings
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APCOA UK & Network Rail – Combined EV charging and parking partnership
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AppyWay, TfL Freight Lab and Royal Mail – Creating an accessible kerbside for freight
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Promoting parking as a sector of choice for the military community – Conduent Transportation, Reserve Forces and Cadets Association and the Forces Employment Charity
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Egis – Multi-partners approach to the digitalisation of parking and enforcement in a ‘smart city’ environment (Egis, AppyWay, Arvoo, Imperial, IPS and RingGo)
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Kent County Council – The ParkMap Project
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Lambeth Council – National Blue Badge Day of Action
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London Borough of Islington & Smart Transport Hub
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London Borough of Waltham Forest in partnership with NSL and the Metropolitan Police
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Manchester City Council & Taranto Systems
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North Essex Parking Partnership – Colchester Park Active
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Penham Excel & Sandwell Council – Cross-boundary working between local authorities
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Q-Park & Cruise Passenger Services – Cruise passenger parking in Liverpool
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Unity5 & Cornwall Council
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.
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Environment Committee – Agena Group
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Kerbing Violence: Ask for Angela and parking initiatives that protect women and girls while enhancing community safety – Conduent Transportation
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Fairer Emissions Based Parking – Lambeth Council
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Cycle Storage Solution – Newcastle City Council
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Community Pillar – PayByPhone
Parking Technology Award
Sponsored by Go2Sim
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.
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ANPRIoT – Complete parking solution
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AppyWay – Blue Badge toggle
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AppyWay – The Parking Platform
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APT Skidata – St John’s Shopping Centre
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Barbour Logic – Voice Master
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Derby City Council – Moving traffic enforcement
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Egis – Dispatch
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JustPark – In-car instant booking
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Kent County Council – The ParkMap Project
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Local Car Park Management – ParkWise
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London Borough of Haringey – Using technology to tackle Blue Badge fraud
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Newcastle City Council – Safe Cycle Storage
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ParkingEye – Bay Management
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Q-Park – Visitor Parking Portal
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Transfer 360 – Connecting leasing companies to ticket issuers
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Twin – Universal payment system for EV charging and parking
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Unity5 – Zatpark Flexible Enforcement
Best New Car Park
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.
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Industria Barking, Essex – Be First Regeneration (McLaren Construction, Ashton Smith Associates and GCP Applied Technologies Stirling Lloyd)
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Sadlers Mead, Chippenham – Wiltshire Council (AHR, Vinci and Hydrock)
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New Market Parking, Chester – Cheshire West and Chester Council (AHR and Vinci)
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Dorset County Hospital Multi-Storey Car Park, Dorchester – Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Prime, Willmott Dixon and Stripe Consulting)
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Campus West, Welwyn Garden City – Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (Bourne Parking, BrightSpace Architects and WKS Ward)
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Queen Alexandra Hospital MSCP, Portsmouth – Portsmouth University NHS Trust (Ballast Nedam and Stripe Consulting)
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Adanac Health & Innovation Campus Park & Ride, Southampton – University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (Prime, HUBER car park systems and Fatkin)
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Stevenage Multi-Storey Car Park – Stevenage Borough Council (HUBER car park systems and Fatkin)
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Riverside Sunderland – Sunderland City Council (Sir Robert MacAlpine, Tonkin Liu and Goldbeck Construction)
Car Park Renovation Award
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.
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Bath Podium Parking – DTZinvestors (Cushman & Wakefield, Makers, Cogent Building Consultancy, Potter Church & Holmes Architects, Stripe Consulting, QuinnRoss, Parking Matters and Concert)
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St Catherine’s Walk, Carmarthen – APCOA UK
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Merry Hill Shopping Centre MSCPs – Merry Hill Shopping Centre MSCPs – Saville UK (Cemplas, Radflex Contract Services, Avonstar Metal Fabrication and IKO Asphalt Applicators)
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Tesco Chester car park – Tesco (WestWood Liquid Technologies & Mulberry GBC)
2023 Special Awards Entries
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.
Recipient to be announced at the ceremony
Lifetime Achievement Award
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.
Recipient to be announced at the ceremony
2023 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.
School Streets Award
Sponsored by Conduent
The School Streets Award recognises innovative approaches to managing vehicle access at the start and end of the school day.
Entries:
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Derby City Council
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Equans and North East Lincolnshire Council
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Hackney Council
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London Borough of Waltham Forest
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Meristem Design
Safer Spaces Award
Sponsored by DCBL
The Safer Spaces Award recognises how parking policy, design and management practice can improve the quality of the street and car park environments to encourage a sense of wellbeing by reducing fear of crime among members of the public and those working in the sector.
Entries:
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Kerbing violence: Ask for Angela and parking initiatives that protect women and girls while enhancing community safety – Conduent Transportation
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Tackling nuisance vehicles – Hackney Council
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London Borough of Waltham Forest in partnership with NSL and Metropolitan Police
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Assaults on parking attendants research – Parking Control Management (UK)
Connected Parking Award
Sponsored by EVC EV Chargers
Parking is an essential urban service without which towns and cities would cease to function. The Connected Parking Award recognises the way in which the provision of accessible parking connects people, places and businesses.
Entries:
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AppyWay, TfL Freight Lab and Royal Mail – Creating an accessible kerbside for freight
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Egis, AppyWay, Arvoo, Imperial, IPS and RingGo – A multi-partners approach to the digitalisation of parking and enforcement in a ‘smart city’ environment
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JustPark – In-car instant booking
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Kent County Council – The ParkMap Project
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Local Car Park Management – ParkWise
EVolution Awards 2023
The worlds of parking and EV charging are connecting. This convergence is covered by EVolution a website and magazine developed by the Parking Review team to look at zero-emission travel.
EV Charging Technology Award
The EV Charging Technology Award will recognise the development of innovative approaches to providing electric vehicle charging intrastructure, systems and services.
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3ti – Papilio3
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AMPECO – All-in-one EV charging management software
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Compleo Charging Solutions UK
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Ohme – Ohme chargers
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ParkingEye – Evology chargers
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Local Car Park Management – ParkWise Disabled Accessible EV Parking
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Twin – Universal payment system for EV charging and parking
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Zapmap
EV Chargepoint Provider Award
The EV Chargepoint Provider Award will recognise the work being done by organisations enabling drivers of electric vehicles to recharge on their journeys. The category is open to chargepoint network operators, parking operators and specific destination managers providing EV charging facilities.
(More providers may be added as car park sites are visited during the judging process)
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APCOA UK
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Cheshire West & Chester Council
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EVC
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Q-Park
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Stevenage Borough Council
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Sunderland City CouncilDSyS
EV Champion of the Year Award
The EV Champion of the Year trophy will be presented to an individual or organisation that has had a significant impact on progressing the transition to zero-emission driving. The recipient may be a policy-maker, campaigner, technologist or business.
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APCOA UK
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Valentin Scheltow, CEO & MD, Compleo Charging Solutions UK
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Islington Council
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Ohme
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Q-Park
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Zapmap