What this category recognises

Projects that explore how children and young people can contribute to longer-term thinking about the future of places, communities or the built environment.

This could include

Strategies, plans, programmes, research, policy, vision documents, planning frameworks, local plans, regeneration strategies or other longer-term approaches.

We're particularly interested in

How children's and young people's perspectives informed thinking and how this could contribute to future work.

Examples of strong submissions

Strong entries might show how children and young people:

• contributed to developing a vision or strategy

• shared perspectives that informed longer-term thinking

• helped identify future priorities or opportunities

• contributed to policy, planning or programmes

• opened up new approaches to future decision-making