Wortley Almshouses, Peterborough 2003 Refurbishment Award

The Campaign for Real Ale, (CAMRA) in association with English Heritage and the Victorian Society is looking for exceptionally designed pubs where work was completed last year to be nominated for the prestigious Pub Design Awards 2008.

1) New Build Pub

This category is for entirely new built pubs. The judges look for a number of details when judging the worth of any new establishment. The pub might reflect pubs of the past but without becoming a mere pastiche of Edwardian, Victorian or even Georgian artifacts. Or it could be completely modern, using materials of the 20th or 21st century.   

2) Conversion to Pub Use

This is where an existing building is converted to pub use. Pubs are judged on the taste and restraint used on both the outside and inside of the pub. 

3) Refurbished pub

Refurbishment can range from a complete gutting to replace what was crass and in bad taste with something far better to an enhancement of what was originally there. Refurbishment should suit the individual pub and not be an excuse to use uniform furnishings to brand the pub with brewery or pub company's image. 

4) CAMRA / English Heritage Conservation award

This award, sponsored by English Heritage, is usually given for work on a pub which conserves what is good in the pub, makes good some of the crass refurbishment efforts of the past and ensures that the fabric of the place will survive for further generations of pub goers and drinkers to enjoy.

In addition the Joe Goodwin Award – named after late CAMRA chair Joe Goodwin – is reserved for outstanding refurbished street-corner locals.  If you are pub owner, pub designer, pub landlord or pub goer and think you know a pub worthy of one of these awards then please contact Jon Howard at CAMRA HQ 01727 867443 or by find an entry form online at http://www.camra.org.uk/ . Closing date for entries – Tuesday September 30th 2008. All work must be completed by 31st December 2007