Awards short list for Littlehampton’s Longest Bench

Britain’s longest bench, which runs along the seafront, has made it to the short list of the 2012 Civic Trust Awards.

The project, which was designed by London-based Studio Weave with the help of pupils from Connaught Junior School, now River Beach Primary, sits alongside the Iron Market, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Brockholes Visitor Centre, in Preston, and the National Museum of Scotland, among others, in the nominations.

A spokesman for the awards said: “The Civic Trust Awards is an architectural and built environment awards scheme established in 1959 to recognise the very best in architecture, urban design, planning, landscape, public realm and public art.

“Successful projects make an outstanding contribution to the quality and appearance of the built environment and must be universally inclusive for all users, while offering a positive social, cultural, environmental or economic benefit to the local community.”

An awards ceremony will take place on March 2, in Edinburgh.