Ipswich Design and Heritage Awards

The Heritage and Design Awards were adopted in 1992 to publicly recognise, promote and reward excellence in the design and construction of new developments and the conservation of heritage places throughout the City of Ipswich. An Enviroplan Environment Award category was incorporated into the Awards in 1997.

In 1999, due to the extremely positive response from Ipswich schools, council initiated a perpetual trophy specifically targeted at schools to promote academic excellence and school pride in history, development and environment of the City of Ipswich. In 2017 a Sustainability category was incorporated into the awards program. The awards program was revisited in 2018-2019 and made its return to the Heritage and Design Awards in 2019 which was the last year that the awards were held.