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Sidney Luker Award

• Background on Sidney Luker
• Rules for the award of the Sidney Luker Memorial Award
• Rules for the Sidney Luker Memorial Lecture
• Recipients of the Sidney Luker Medal
• Sidney Luker Lecturers

The Sidney Luker Memorial Medal and Lecture were established in 1954 by three institutes – planners, surveyors and architects.

The Medal is awarded biennially to a person who has made a notable contribution to urban and regional planning in Australia.

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Background on Sidney Luker

Born in Madras, India, the late Mr Sidney Luker was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, and later was a graduate of the University of Birmingham with a Science degrees in Civil Engineering.

He served in both World Wars.

After the war he returned Australia and to the Department of Main Roads and was occupied in the planning, survey and design for a new metropolitan main roads system in Sydney (so he is to blame!!), incorporated in the Cumberland County Council Plan in 1948.

He was appointed in 1945 as Chief County Planner to the newly formed Cumberland County Council. In this capacity, Mr Luker was responsible for the preparation of the Cumberland Country ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ Scheme 1948. The NSW Parliament gazetted his plan in 1951.

He was a foundation member of Town and Country ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ Institute of NSW and served on six different committees from 1938 to 1952 and was a member of the Council from 1940 to 1952. He served a term as President in 1943 and was Vice President again in 1951. He died in 1952.

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Rules for the award of the Sidney Luker Memorial Medal

The following are recommended:

1. The Medal shall be awarded biennially to a person who, having attained the age of 35 years, shall have made a notable contribution to the science, and/or practice of town and regional planning in the Commonwealth of Australian during the period under review.
2. The Sidney Luker Memorial Medal Standing Committee consisting of the President and all living former Presidents of the Division shall make a recommendation to the Division Committee at the first meeting of the year in which the award of the Medal is to be made.
3. The Standing Committee shall maintain a register which shall include all former eligible Presidents and such other names as may be added by the Standing committee.
4. The Standing Committee may consider for inclusion in the register:
   (i) a nomination made by a member of the Standing Committee, or
   (ii) a nomination made by the Division Committee
5. Any nomination made under 4(ii) above, shall be accompanied by a statement of qualifications supplied under Rule 5.
6. The Standing Committee shall have the power to review, or to ask the nominator to review, any statement of qualifications supplied under Rule 5.
7. The Standing Committee shall have the power to co-opt any member or members of the Division Committee for purposes of consultation in considering the award of the Medal.
8. The Division Committee may refer back for consideration any recommendation the Standing Committee may make in respect of the award, and the Standing Committee shall then submit its reconsidered recommendation to the next meeting of the Division Committee. The Division Committee, after further consideration, shall at this meeting determine the award of the Medal.

These rules are based on the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal Rules of the Institution of Engineers.

Rules for the Sidney Luker Memorial Lecture

The lecture shall be delivered in Sydney in general at interviews of two years.

The lectures are to be open to all subscribers of the Sidney Luker Memorial Fund including all members of organisations who have subscribed and to members of the Australian ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ Institute and shall be such as will primarily encourage research and stimulate the lecturer and audience to think and acquire new knowledge by research instead of merely covering ground already known.

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Recipients of the Sidney Luker Medal

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Sidney Luker Lecturers