<b><b>There was a record number of entries for this year&amp;’s Green Leaf awards and record number of winners announced at a ceremony last month in London. Professor Chris Baines, chair of the judging panel and environmental writer and broadcaster, introduces and describes this year&amp;’s special awards, including, for the first time, an overall winner </b></b><br><b><br> <b>The English Partnerships Award and The Hanson Award - given to the best Green Leaf example</b></b><p></p><p> </p><p><b>Stonegate Place, Wye, Kent by Environ Country Homes</b></p><p> For the first time, we have named one special development as the overall winner - and the decision was unanimous. Building new homes in tight corners is difficult as the best of times, but to achieve this result, in a small and very sensitive historic town, is little short of brilliant. By coincidence I know Wye, in Kent, extremely well - I spent three years there as a student in the 60s. If anyone had told me that substantial new-build could be slotted into the fabric of this picture-postcard place, provide homes for the elderly, and actually enhance its surroundings, I would have been extremely sceptical. In fact, Environ Country Homes has achieved the impossible. Its development will, I think, astound …