Nominations now open for Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2026 which introduces new category for Subsidised Sale Housing
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) is holding the Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2026 (the Award) to commend private property developments that excel in landscape design and horticultural maintenance. This year's Award has introduced a new category for Subsidised Sale Housing, enabling more properties to participate. Nominations are free of charge and open until May 18.
The Award, held biennially, is one of the LCSD's major activities to promote greening. It aims to bring about sustained environmental improvements in private property developments and encourage private bodies to incorporate more quality green elements into the planning and management of horticultural projects for the benefit of such developments.
Entries must be properties and facilities located within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The landscape and green areas of the entries must be for communal use or accessible to the public or residents. Entries may be nominated by the developer, management company, design company, owners' organisation, landscape or horticultural company of the property, with prior consent from the owners' representative group of the property concerned.
The competition is divided into six categories. Details are as follows:
Domestic property:
(1) Large-scale Domestic Property (with a site area of 20 000 square metres or above)
(2) Medium-scale Domestic Property (with a site area from 2 000 sq m to below 20 000 sq m)
(3) Small-scale Domestic Property (with a site area under 2 000 sq m)
(4) Subsidised Sale Housing (including domestic properties under the following projects: Tenants Purchase Scheme, HOS (Home Ownership Scheme) Secondary Market Scheme, Private Sector Participation Scheme, Green Form Subsidised Home Ownership Scheme, Subsidised Sale Flats Project, Starter Homes Pilot Project for Hong Kong Residents, Flat-for-Sale Scheme, Sandwich Class Housing Scheme, Urban Improvement Scheme, Dedicated Rehousing Estates, Full Market Value Development, and Urban Renewal Project)
Non-domestic property (such as hotels, shopping malls, commercial buildings, schools under the Direct Subsidy Scheme (private premises) and private schools):
(5) Large-scale Non-domestic Property (with a gross floor area of 40 000 sq m or above)
(6) Small and Medium-scale Non-domestic Property (with a gross floor area under 40 000 sq m)
Except category 4 (Subsidised Sale Housing), each of the other categories are divided into three groups according to the age of the property:
i) Properties below six years of age
ii) Properties between six and below 21 years of age
iii) Properties of 21 years of age or above
Each category features a Gold Award, Merit Award(s) and Environmental Efficiency Award(s). Additionally, a Supreme Gold Award has been introduced this year and will be presented to the most outstanding entry among all Gold Award winners.
The prospectus and nomination form can be downloaded from the LCSD webpage at www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/green/property/index.html. Completed nomination forms together with all necessary documents must reach the Secretariat of the Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2026 on or before May 18 through one of the following ways:
*by email: gcs@lcsd.gov.hk (no later than 5pm on the last day for submission);
*by post: 11/F, Leisure and Cultural Services Headquarters, 1-3 Pai Tau Street, Sha Tin (the date of postmark will be taken as the date of receipt); or
*in person: 11/F, Leisure and Cultural Services Headquarters, 1-3 Pai Tau Street, Sha Tin (no later than 5pm on the last day for submission).
For enquiries, please call 2601 8026.
The Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2026 is organised by the LCSD and co-organised by the Home Affairs Department, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, the Institute of Horticulture (Hong Kong), the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, the Professional Green Building Council, the Hong Kong Association of Property Management Companies and the Hong Kong Green Building Council.
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