Bath Spa University’s landmark Green Park House student accommodation building has been awarded a major property award.
The 461-bed purpose-built scheme, pictured, which replaced the derelict former Green Park residential care home opposite Green Park station, topped the Regeneration category at last night’s 2017 RICS Awards, South West. 
It was one of nine award winners at the prestigious annual contest, which celebrates inspirational initiatives in the region’s land, property and construction sectors.
Last night’s event was held at the Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre with Melissa Porter – best known for TV programmes To Buy or Not to Buy and Escape to the Country – as the host for the sell-out ceremony, which attracted more than 200 property professionals.
Judges called Green Park House a “carefully designed student accommodation scheme set within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bath”.
They praised it as “constructed from modular elements, and clad in a faithfully designed and accurately proportioned and detailed Georgian façade, this stunning scheme sits sympathetically within its surroundings”.
The overall winner was the ground-breaking Gloucester Services on the M5, which not only scooped the prestigious title this year, but also won the Community Benefit and Infrastructure property categories.
Other winners included The General in Bristol (Building Conservation), the Stihl Treetop Walkway in Tetbury (Tourism & Leisure) and the Arts University Bournemouth Design Studios and Workshops in Poole (Design through Innovation).
Chair of the RICS South West judging panel Mark Robinson FRICS, director at WYG, said: “These exemplary built schemes are already having a positive impact on their local communities and are actively helping to ensure the South West is one of the best regions to live, work and visit.
“The teams behind them should be incredibly proud as they have shown just what is achievable with vision and an innovative approach to collaboration.
“Despite the ongoing skills shortages in the construction industry, every year our region’s professionals continue to deliver world-class built projects. This just goes to show that we have some of the very best skilled property professionals and surveyors, who together are attracting significant investment into the South West and helping the region to prosper.”
All category winners will go on to compete against other regional winners at the national RICS Awards Grand Final in October in London for the chance to be crowned the overall UK winner in their respective category.
