Winners of the Ernest Davies Award 2020 for Advancing Parking Knowledge

The 26th winner of the Ernest Davis Award

Ryan Jackson and Alastair Finlayson at Gemini Parking Solutions are the winners with their Brake The Mould Podcast entry. The judges thought it was innovative and refreshing way to advance parking knowledge and raise issues in the industry, not only within our sector but also importantly to motorists. It scored strongly on all the criteria – style, content, value to the sector, originality and creativity.

Runners-up

• Zoe Hall, from Cornwall Council with an article entitled A Perfect Parking World- Back off RoboCEOs! It is a great piece of writing highlighting how the role of a Civil Enforcement Officer can be progressed to provide a great service.

And

• Craig Taylor, also from Cornwall Council and David Fowle from Hozah Parking for their joint article entitled ANPR for Local Authority Car Parks: Present & Future Benefits. Highlighting how local authorities, retailers and the environment can benefit from local authorities introducing ANPR into their day-to-day parking operations.

The Ernest Davies Award is a prestigious award for Advancing Parking Knowledge. And this year the competition criteria to enter the award, expanded to include both film and audio, for the first time in its history, as well as the usual written entries.  The entries were particularly impressive, creative and original this year.

Who is Ernest Davies?

The BPA wouldn’t be here today without Ernest Davies. As he’s one of the founding members of the BPA.  So, it’s fitting that each year we present this award, in his memory. He started out in his early career as a journalist, and went on to become the MP for Enfield at the end of second world war. Eventually he become a junior minister.

Previous winners of the award are here.
More information about the Award here.