Judges
The Judging Panel
A judging panel is appointed by the governing board of CPRE Norfolk and authorised to make Awards on behalf of the branch. There are normally 4 to 5 judges that sit on the judging panel who bring a mixture of personal expertise and professional experience. The judges’ backgrounds are commonly in environmental conservation, architecture or the historic landscape. At least one trustee of CPRE Norfolk will sit on the judging panel. The current judging panel are:
Martin Walton (Chairman of Judges)
Martin Walton has been the Chairman of the Judging Panel for over 20 years and a Trustee of CPRE Norfolk for a similar time. He is an artist, designer and rural campaigner and was named by Country Life magazine as one of ‘the heroes of the countryside’. He has been awarded the CPRE Countryside Medal and the Marsh Christian Trust Award for excellence in volunteering.
Nancy Legg
Nancy Legg is a teacher and conservationist and has been involved with the CPRE Norfolk Awards for over 20 years. She comes from a family background of architects and has maintained a life long interest in architecture. She was a teacher of natural history for 24 years and has played an active role in awards schemes for the Norfolk Gardens Trust, the Norfolk County Council, as well as CPRE. She has also been awarded the CPRE Countryside Medal.
Michael Reynolds
Michael Reynolds is architect and director of a North Norfolk-based practice of 30 years standing. He is passionate about both the natural and built environment with work embracing a wide range of conservation and contemporary projects in the Anglia region. His practice has won national competitions and several design and conservation awards, including three CPRE Norfolk Awards.
Caroline Davison
Caroline Davison is a conservation officer and a writer. She has worked for Norfolk County Council for over twenty years, and in recent times project-managed the conversion of the café-wing at Waxham Barn, and the repair and conservation of 11th century wall paintings at Houghton-on-the-Hill, both of which won CPRE Norfolk Awards. She is also active in promoting practical measures for improving the energy efficiency of traditional buildings, and in finding imaginative, sustainable new uses for redundant rural buildings.
Tony Leech
Tony Leech is a former biology teacher at Gresham's School and lives in Holt. He gives environment and wildlife tours for Norfolk Nature and is Chairman of the Publications Committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. He is Vice-Chairman of the Holt Society, Secretary of the Norfolk Fungus Study Group and part of the River Glaven Conservation Group. Tony brings extensive landscape, conservation and natural history experience to the panel.
To be a Judge...
“What a diversity of projects confronted us! They ranged in scale from a single window in King’s Lynn to a private nature reserve in the Brecks, and in character from a restored medieval barn to a brand-new ‘earth-sheltered’ house. Then there was the variety of materials: flint, clunch, carrstone, brick, render, glass, metal, and – perhaps increasingly today – timber in a variety of ‘sustainable’ species. There was even a converted barn with a wall of straw bales. We visited a wide variety of building types: forges, railway stations and windmills converted to dwellings; restored glasshouses, new glasshouses, public buildings, museums, and modest extensions. There is poetry in excellent design and as W.H. Auden once said, it is ‘a poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere’” - David Thompson RIBA, LSI Architects, CPRE Norfolk Awards Judge 1997-2004.
Links and Further Information
Making Old Buildings Energy Efficient - Report by Caroline Davison of Norfolk County Council
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society
River Glaven Conservation Group