Shortlist 2023

PLANNING CATEGORIES

AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR INCREASED HOUSING DELIVERY

Delivering Council led affordable homes

HTA Design

Kidbrooke Park Road North is a catalyst development in the first phase of a major regeneration scheme in South London. It is 100% affordable and zero-carbon. HTA Planning have been strategic in their engagement through consideration of key planning and development issues, options, and risks. They have led a multidisciplinary team on id...

Ebury Bridge Estate Renewal Project – City of Westminster

City of Westminster and Gowling WLG

To address London’s acute housing crisis, Westminster City Council is driving an ambitious strategic vision to transform the Ebury Bridge neighbourhood with new affordable homes, community amenities and exciting public realm. It has unlocked a historical ‘lack of action’ in local housing development through innovative rejuvenation of t...

Enfield Council Planning Service

London Borough of Enfield (Planning Service)

The Planning Service supported Naked House, a small start-up community builder and facilitated the delivery of 22 x low carbon, innovative affordable homes in challenging brownfield sites by proactively leading the planning process, pursuing a flexible planning approach and unblocking viability issues. The pioneering Naked Home mode...

Flintshire Local Development Plan 2015 – 2030 Flintshire County Council and Arcadis

Arcadis

The Adopted Flintshire LDP provides opportunity for 7870 dwellings, meeting a requirement of 6,950. Arcadis demonstrated, in the HRA that NbS mitigation could be provided for the LDP alone and in combination with other plans (from Wrexham). Without this work, no residential development within the catchment would have been possible. Our...

Fulton and Fifth

Regal London

Fulton & Fifth proposes to deliver 876 homes including 40% affordable housing, versus a previous planning approval for 493 homes with 25% affordable. The unused brownfield site has been optimised to its full potential to deliver much needed homes to LB Brent, whilst refusing to compromise on quality. Residents will also have access to ...

Lewisham Small Sites SPD

RCKa

Lewisham has a London Plan delivery target of 16,670 homes over ten years, including 3,790 on small sites. RCKa, as part of a team led by Ash Sakula, was commissioned to prepare a small sites design guide to encourage residential development on sites of less than 0.25 hectares. The team conducted a detailed analysis of the borough's ch...

AJC Group

We have a clear vision to become the leading developer of affordable homes across the Wessex region. We will achieve this through a multidisciplinary approach, which includes ‘planning’ from the outset. This approach ensures that we can secure the right land in the right places and achieve planning consents to help deliver our mission....

Ebury Bridge Estate Renewal Project – City of Westminster

Westminster City Council and Gowling WLG

Redevelopment of the Ebury Bridge Estate forms a key part of Westminster City Council’s plans to develop more council homes for social rent. The project, which is now under construction, aims to provide 781 new homes, of which 53% will be affordable. Income from home sales will subsidise delivery of new and refurbished affordable homes...

Gallions 3B

Rolfe Judd Planning

Gallions 3B addresses London’s requirement for housing by providing appropriate density, high quality affordable homes. The introduction of a strong urban structure of streets and blocks creates the opportunity to establish a new emerging community that stitches into the existing Royal Albert Wharf masterplan and placemaking. This ...

Naked House: Delivery of an Innovative Model of Intermediate Housing

HTA Design

Naked House is a highly innovative scheme which will provide 22 genuinely affordable for sale homes on extremely constrained and underutilised brownfield sites. More importantly, and unlike most dwellings available on the market, these homes will allow residents to custom fit their homes to meet their specific set of needs and will all...

Osiers Road

Rolfe Judd Planning

The challenge for the development of Osier Road was how to knit into a recently developed tight urban fabric, a scheme which optimised the delivery of high quality homes and flexible workspaces whilst giving back almost 40% of the site to public realm to ‘complete’ the master planning of the area. Osiers Road has achieved this, by care...

South Thamesmead Phase 2

CBRE Limited

South Thamesmead Phase 2 represents a significant milestone in the delivery of the wider Thamesmead regeneration. It will re-open a prime lake frontage and provide sustainable access to Abbey Wood Station.

Canada Dock, Canada Water Masterplan

British Land, London Borough of Southwark, Townshend Landscape Architects and London Wildlife Trust

The Canada Dock project, part of the Canada Water masterplan, aims to improve the ecology and biodiversity of a wetland habitat that has been designated a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation. The design includes seven wetland islands, providing habitats for birds, bats, invertebrates, and amphibians. A Biodiversity Net Gain Asse...

Flintshire Local Development Plan 2015 – 2030 Flintshire County Council and Arcadis

Arcadis

Poplar Riverside, E14

St William Homes LLP

In line with the Berkeley Group 2030 vision to deliver a valuable and holistic contribution to the environment, landscape has been at the fore-front of the Poplar Riverside Masterplan. The detailed proposals for the first phase of the 1-hectare Riverside park and the wider landscape proposals, focus on habitat creation through site spe...

Wetland Habitat Creation Sizewell C EDF, Arcadis

Arcadis

Marsh harrier, a rare wetland raptor, forage around the site of Sizewell C. A specially designed 4.5ha wetland is being created on farmland close to the RSPB’s Minsmere Nature Reserve (and SSSI). This will not only provide enhanced foraging, but breeding and sheltering habitat for a wide range of protected species. In addition to buffe...

City of London Thermal Comfort Guidelines

City of London Corporation

The City of London have exploited innovative new technology to undertake City wide modelling of constraints; wind; sunlight; temperature and humidity to develop a holistic understanding of the challenges of delivering inclusive and sustainable growth. These modelling initiatives are considered exemplars of the use of innovative new tec...

Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan

Commonplace

Plymouth City Council, West Devon Borough Council, and South Hams District Council wanted to maximise community engagement ahead of a 2024 joint local plan review. Commonplace was commissioned to build a website, gathering views from local residents between July and December 2022, and develop an AI system to speed up analysis of commen...

Power Bi for Planning Teams

Buckinghamshire Council

Significant collaboration took place as part of this project through a series of workshops with stakeholders, including planning officers and managers, to ensure that the reports being developed met their respective needs in terms of architecture and interface. The Planning Service worked very closely with the Councils IT team to insta...

Trafford Waters Masterplan

Arcadis

The apartment script for the Trafford Waters Masterplan is an effective planning and design tool, that can generate indicative floorplans based on key parameters such as apartment areas and building width. A multi-function script that provides a new range of tools to communicate concepts and options to clients and other stakeholders,...

Bridgwater Tidal Barrier

BDB Pitmans

We delivered statutory authority for a significant new barrier that will provide substantial benefits to communities at risk of flooding. We advised on complex environmental matters. The barrier will need to be operated with increasing frequency over the course of its 100 year lifetime due to rising sea levels. This means there is u...

Ebury Bridge Estate Renewal Project – City of Westminster

Gowling WLG

The scheme is not like any other project seen in the heart of London for a generation. The scheme will sustain and support the existing community through the replacement of all existing homes, with a greater number of new homes designed to meet each existing households' needs, whilst also increasing the supply and quality of affordable...

High profile mandates for Womble Bond Dickinson's planning and infrastructure team

Womble Bond Dickinson

Womble Bond Dickinson’s planning and infrastructure team has acted on major schemes in sectors ranging from energy to aviation and public sector projects. Highlights include advising North Somerset Council and West of England Combined Authority on the Portishead rail line; assisting Vattenfall on wind farm projects in Norfolk; helping ...

Holloway Prison redevelopment project

Dentons UK and Middle East

All of these required an understanding of complex interests and negotiation from positions to issues, to solutions, to unlock one of London's significant opportunities to meet housing needs in an outstanding setting on surplus underused land, while respecting the legacy and securing the future quality of place.

Town Legal as planning law advisers on Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4

Town Legal

We advised The Crown Estate on compliance with its duties under the Habitats Regulations in relation to Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4, which is critically important to the UK's energy security policy and climate change targets. The HRA considered several large projects across extensive areas of seabed with potential impacts on multiple...

CBRE Limited

The Planning team has an enviable track record in delivering successful planning consents throughout the UK. Our projects embrace our role across all use classes and markets and advising on some of the UK’s largest developments. Our largest 30 projects are valued at over £30billion, reflecting the scale at which we operate. The Plann...

Deloitte Planning Team

Deloitte

Our submission looks at some of our recent highlights. Being successful on these projects and our wider initiatives, we believe, makes us one of the leading planning consultancies in the UK. We are at the forefront of innovation, technology, delivering for clients, and most fundamentally, creating better places. Our supporting informat...

DLBP

DLBP have a diverse portfolio, delivering residential schemes nationwide. We take a bespoke approach to every project, suited to its requirements, offering focused timely advice at the various stages of the planning process. We work hard to secure planning permission first time around and many of our schemes avoid the need for appeal. ...

Edgars Limited

Edgars’ diverse projects range from heritage interventions to policy development and sustainable transport infrastructure. Highlights include working with Warwick District Council to develop net-zero carbon policies in response to the declared climate emergency; a collaboration with BikeSafe to create a 5km off-road cycling and walking...

Knight Frank Planning Team

Knight Frank

Knight Frank works collaboratively with Planning Authorities, technical experts and community stakeholders to guide the planning process towards a successful outcome. These projects highlight our commitment to outcomes that benefit communities in the provision of a range of high quality schemes across mixed use and residential forma...

Marrons – Everards Meadows phase 2, Blaby, and St Margaret’s Bus Station, Leicester

Marrons

Both projects have had a major positive impact on the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of Leicestershire. St Margaret’s transformed a tired building into a modern, efficient alternative, which serves as a catalyst for further regeneration and provides increased capacity for passengers. It is the UK’s first net zero carbon...

Chilmington

Hodson Developments

Chilmington, a new garden city development near Ashford in Kent, is bringing outstanding benefits to the community with high-quality sustainable housing and excellent facilities, while enhancing and protecting the natural environment. Led by Hodson Developments this 20-year project will, when complete, provide 5,750 new homes of differ...

Earl’s Court Opportunity Area Placemaking Framework Supplementary Planning Document

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Planning and Place

The Placemaking Framework represents a bold step in proactive planning for this high-profile site, not least because of its history. The council is taking the front foot in defining a clear vision for the site to ensure it delivers for local people and businesses. It is a focused document directly informed by engagement with the com...

Perry Barr 2040: A Vision for Legacy’ Masterplan

Birmingham City Council, Homes England, and Arup

The masterplan sets out a vision shared by key stakeholders for the ongoing regeneration of the area, ensuring that the impact of the Commonwealth Games and the £750m public sector investment already secured is maximised. It provides confidence for investors and will unlock significant growth through infrastructure, placemaking, and di...

Watford Local Plan 2021-2038: A Sustainable Town

Watford Borough Council

The Local Plan sets out the positive framework for growth in Watford to 2038, providing a clear vision to shape the town and support its growing community. Set within a challenging planning environment where the borough is not metropolitan or rural, surrounded by Green Belt and has significant land availability constraints, the Plannin...

West Bromwich Masterplan (endorsed Feb 2022)

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (w/Savills, Benoy & Mott MacDonald)

The West Bromwich Masterplan identifies key priorities for investment in the town centre over the next 30 years: the creation of a metro gateway and a new town square; securing new green links, parks, and sustainable travel networks; and development of a major mixed-use community. Town centre improvements such as the installation of ‘p...

A417 Missing Link Integrated Highway Network

National Highways and Arup

In recognition of the high environmental quality of the Cotswolds AONB, the Missing Link is a landscape-led highway improvement scheme that will deliver a safe and resilient free-flowing road while conserving and enhancing the specialist character of the Cotswolds AONB; reconnecting landscape and ecology; bringing about landscape, wild...

Brent Cross Town Electrical Sub-Station

CarneySweeney / Related Argent in partnership with Barnet Council

The completed Brent Cross Town Electrical Substation will eventually supply energy to one of the largest urban regeneration projects in Europe, including around 6,700 homes plus 280,000 square metres of office space, retail and leisure facilities. Located close to a transport interchange, where it is expected to be seen by six million ...

Cambridge South Infrastructure Enhancements TWAO

Arcadis, Fereday Pollard and Network Rail

This transformational project is critical to Cambridge’s continued success and future development, supporting local and national economic prosperity, and actively contributing to place-making. Working in a highly constrained area the team have designed and consented a scheme that will significantly improve access by public transport t...

Catterick Integrated Care Campus

BDP

The Catterick Integrated Care Campus is a joint venture between the National Health Service and the Ministry of Defence, which will deliver a brand-new health and care. The proposal is the first of its kind in England, which will deliver an innovative approach in primary and community healthcare. The scheme will be the blueprint ...

Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People

Rolfe Judd Planning

The Scheme will redevelop an under-utilised brownfield site within the centre of the Maudsley Hospital Campus providing new community/healthcare floorspace. This represents a landmark opportunity for outstanding clinical research to improve the mental health of children and young people. It has been designed to bring under one roof wor...

Be First Planning Development Management Team

Be First Regeneration

The efficiency and professionalism with which the team has handled planning applications has improved the lives of LBBD’s residents and created a sense of momentum which has been integral to the borough’s success as a growth area. This is even more remarkable given that the team comprises only 15 members, where the average size of such...

Birmingham City Council Planning Team

Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council's Planning team should win this award for the commitment and dedication to delivering a range of significant projects including: •Early work on the update of the Birmingham Plan. •Our Future City Plan providing an ambitious vision for Birmingham’s central area. •The City's track record of delivery of key resi...

Buckinghamshire Planning & Environment Service

Buckinghamshire Council

Buckinghamshire Council's planning team was formed in 2020, bringing together colleagues from four former district councils and a county council within one unitary authority. The team processes more than 13,000 planning applications annually and is working on a single local plan for Buckinghamshire. Integration took place alongside ser...

City of London

The City’s small Planning team were disproportionally pivotal in delivering the challenging floorspace growth required to maintain the City of London’s position as the world’s business centre, the engine of London’s and the UK’s economy, through exceptionally challenging, pandemic economic times. The Planning team delivered an unpreced...

Dagenham Green

Peabody Trust and Dagenham Green Ltd; PRP, Savills, HTA Design Landscape

Located on the 18.5-hectare site of a former car manufacturing plant in east London, the Dagenham Green project aims to provide 3,502 homes — of which 50 per cent are expected to be affordable. Based on the 15-minute neighbourhood principle, the plans also include a 10-form entry secondary school, up to 4,400 square metres of non-resid...

Everton Stadium

CBRE Limited

CBRE has advised Everton FC since 2015 regarding their new 52,888 capacity stadium. The site is within Liverpool’s former UNESCO World Heritage Site, within a Conservation Area and contains several listed buildings. CBRE provided town planning and Environmental Impact Assessment advice, providing assurance to planning and heritage b...

Gravity LDO

This is Gravity Ltd and Stantec UK Ltd

The Gravity LDO is at the heart of the UK’s 4th Industrial Revolution, it is aligned to the enterprise zone and has created a marketing tool to attract investors to Sedgemoor and Somerset. The Gravity LDO unlocks this brownfield site, supports clean and inclusive growth, and will deliver transformational beneficial impacts for Somerset...

National Centre for Child Health Technology at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park

Zerum

The global pandemic has brought some challenging child health issues back into stark focus – childhood obesity, mental health, access to healthcare for children with complex health needs and collectively the need to ensure that we protect children as they develop. The development of the NCCHT has been cited by industry partners as a ...

A Landmark Regeneration - Fiddler's Ferry Power Station

Deetu on behalf of Peel NRE

A beacon to the northwest, recognised by millions, powering our country for half a century. At the end of an era, how do you deal with communicating that it's going to be torn down? This once-in-a-lifetime challenge presented an opportunity for Peel NRE to rethink its engagement about the demolition and create excitement about the si...

Avenue Road Estate regeneration in Leytonstone

Bellway London Partnerships

Estate regeneration has often been a contentious, there are numerous examples of where the best intentions have led to opposition and division within communities. At Avenue Road our approach to community consultation has been sensitive, comprehensive and most importantly collaborative. Our approach has resulted in unprecedent support f...

Earl’s Court Opportunity Area Placemaking Framework Supplementary Planning Document

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Planning and Place

This entry showcases the work done by Kensington and Chelsea Council in partnership with members of the Earl’s Court communities to reimagine the opportunity area and produce a placemaking framework with guidance for private developers. It is a successful case study on targeted community engagement for plan-making designed to be cost...

Empowering residents to shape their areas: developing 15 Minute Neighbourhood Frameworks

London Borough of Waltham Forest

Waltham Forest Council have been co-creating 15 Minute Neighbourhood Frameworks with residents for 5 parts of the borough, with the aim of creating a fairer and more equal 15-minute neighbourhoodsOur approach is innovative in three ways: We have facilitated a genuine engagement process. The Council have been creating opportunities for ...

Issues & Options Consultation, Newham Local Plan Review - LBN Planning Policy

London Borough of Newham

When Newham Council consulted on its adopted local plan, the authority received 46 comments. For its Local Plan Review, the council boosted that number to 5,000. Publicity efforts included adverts, social media, multi-language leaflets, and a video narrated by local residents. Engagement took place via stalls, attendance at community e...

National Planning Framework 4

Scottish Government

This was a large commitment, on a small budget. We knew we had to be bold and radical in policy making, and needed the buy-in of all our stakeholders, politicians and the wider public to make it a success. By investing our time in wide and varied engagement we have secured a result that is beyond our expectations, with widespread suppo...

Picturing Places

BiBO x Argent

The St Pancras Hospital site is situated in Somers Town in Camden. A catchment report showed that the majority of the catchment around the site live in flats (90%), with limited access to outdoor space; almost half of the residential catchment do not work, and 40% of those living in the local area are considered to be on low incomes. T...

Carbon Options Guidance Planning Advice Note

City of London Corporation

The Whole Life-Cycle Carbon Optioneering PAN is an innovative approach that promotes reuse and retrofit as well as minimising the embodied carbon of major developments in the City of London. It has been developed in close collaboration with leading industry bodies and policy makers, and there are calls for this approach to be rolled o...

Lancaster University Solar Farm

CBRE Limited

The planning application has enabled Lancaster University to work towards its climate change goals and ensure it is adaptive and responsive to the global Climate Change crisis. CBRE has advised Lancaster University from the outset of the scheme, providing initial planning advice, then subsequently preparing and submitting a planning ...

LUC planning for net zero climate resilient development

LUC

The breadth and depth of the support we provide to LAs on climate is unique. We recognise the urgency of ensuring that the planning system plays the fullest role in reducing emissions and addressing growing climate risks. Local government planners and Local Plans could be doing much more to drive the transition towards net zero e...

National Planning Framework 4

Scottish Government

Scotland's fourth National Planning Framework aims to drive the country towards net zero and gives significant weight to the global climate and nature crises in all planning decisions. The framework offers support for renewable energy technologies, greener places, local living, and regeneration of town centres, while seeking to restric...

Newcastle City Council’s Sustainability Guidance document

Newcastle City Council

The guidance demonstrates the City’s commitment towards becoming net zero and provides the tool to do this at the earliest stage of development. It is a successful example of collaborative working between planning and climate change disciplines. The Council can negotiate higher energy savings exceeding building regulations and assess t...

Warners Fields Masterplan, Birmingham, UK, Arcadis with HUW for Dandara Living

Arcadis

Warners Fields is the next chapter in the story of Birmingham's regeneration strategy and Future City Plan, capitalising on the growth being brought forward with Birmingham’s Smithfield development. For the first time in over a 100 years locals and visitors will be able to experience the flowing river. The masterplan will create Birmin...

AWARD FOR BEST HOUSING SCHEME (FEWER THAN 500 HOMES)

Bellsmyre Regeneration, Dumbarton

ECD Architects

The regeneration of Bellsmyre significantly improves the quality of the environment and housing in an area that has been neglected for many years. Following consultations with local residents and stakeholders, the development has been designed to factor in the needs of many whilst providing a modern take on traditional Scottish archite...

Church Farm

Pye Homes

CChurch Farm has positively impacted the local community by creating homes that not only seek to improve the well-being of residents and the wider community through its design, but also through careful consideration for the environment. The homes are being delivered in harmony with the existing area whilst showing an appreciation for t...

Collaton 'A Different Approach'

Pillar Land Securities Ltd and Coln Signature Homes

Collaton Park aims to establish a model for rural housing delivery without public funding, blending a mix of housing tenures with employment space and community facilities. The project, which secured full planning permission last year, will provide 57 affordable units — 46 per cent of the total — including social rent homes, affordable...

Creams Mill, Little Lever, Bolton

P4 Planning

This permission will deliver a unique and high quality place. It has significant social, environmental and economic benefits comprising major affordable housing led regeneration of previously developed land and including the repair of a major breach in canal infrastructure. The applicant, Watson Construction, is an SME that focuses ...

Fisherton Street Regeneration

Westminster City Council and Linkcity

Fisherton Street, the first stage in Westminster City Council’s long-term regeneration of Church Street and led by the Council in partnership with placemaking specialist Linkcity, is delivering hundreds of new mixed-tenure homes, together with new community amenities, enhanced biodiversity, better connectivity and public realm improvem...

Former British Lion Public House

Create Design

The Proposal introduces a high standard of architectural quality to a prominent entrance to the Carey Gardens Estate, providing an exciting opportunity for the regeneration of the site. The Proposal champions the use of sustainable transportation, renewable energy and contributes significantly to urban greening. The Proposal will...

Prince Philip Park - Bordon Phase 3 Reserved Matters

HGP Architects and Whitehill & Bordon Regeneration Company

The proposed masterplan of this phase of Prince Philip Park, is the culmination of much consultation between client, stakeholder, design team and local authority intended to breathe new life into a dormant site to create resident-focused homes. The resulting design response offers a holistic way of living, developed alongside a stron...

Chilmington

Hodson Developments

Chilmington, a new garden city development near Ashford in Kent, is bringing outstanding benefits to the community with high-quality sustainable housing and excellent facilities, while enhancing and protecting the natural environment. Led by Hodson Developments this 20-year scheme will, when complete, provide 5,750 new homes of differe...

Kingsgrove Wantage

St Modwen

At Kingsgrove, St. Modwen has built community cohesion from the bottom up, prioritising physical placemaking to enable softer placemaking to happen, and putting mechanisms in place to empower and inspire residents to be part of creating their own community. The development creates a blueprint for residential projects that build communi...

London Dock

Patel Taylor and St George

London Dock addresses citywide regeneration issues: connectivity, mobility, job creation, mixed-tenure homes provision and placemaking. New entrances, squares, promenades and gardens provide a rich diversity of public and private spaces which are popular destinations for local residents. Within this, a collection of site-specific build...

Oval Village Phase 2

GRID Architects with Berkeley Homes

The Oval Village project aims to transform 17 separate parcels of contaminated, derelict and inaccessible land into a community of 738 homes plus shops, cafes, offices, and open space. Incorporating the two-hectare Oval Gas Works, the project will retain and refurbish the listed gasholder while drawing inspiration from the site’s indus...

Perry Barr Residential Scheme, Perry Barr, Birmingham

Birmingham City Council, Arcadis and Lendlease Construction

The Perry Barr Residential Scheme is an exemplar sustainable residential development in a well-connected urban setting. It will deliver nearly 2000 new homes over a series of phases, with key infrastructure including green spaces and a school being delivered up-front. The mixed community will include older people, renters, accessible a...

The Loft Lines, Titanic Quarter, Belfast

Watkin Jones Group / Lacuna / Turley

Loft lines will be the first truly mixed tenure residential development in Titanic Quarter, providing 778 much-needed homes for people of all ages and backgrounds. It is a direct response to the opportunity to deliver a Build to Rent proposition at scale, in support of the Council’s Belfast regeneration Agenda, with its focus on sustai...

TwelveTrees Park

Berkeley Homes (South East London)

TwelveTrees Park presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform underused industrial land into a lively, inclusive new neighbourhood that serves the local community. Its architecture imparts a sense of place and character; and the variety of homes will suit a range of lifestyles. Commercial and retail premises throughout the ...

Albert Island

Haworth Tompkins

Albert Island is an innovative, industrial-led masterplan in the Royal Docks which combines high quality placemaking, innovative building typologies and cutting-edge technical solutions to create an exemplar industrial intensification project, brought about by a meaningful collaboration of public and private sectors. As well as regener...

Blackhorse Lane Strategic Industrial Location Masterplan Framework and Creative Enterprise Zone

London Borough of Waltham Forest

The Blackhorse Lane industrial area is a key strategic site identified as having the potential to promote economic growth. However, challenges include multiple landowners, complex London Plan requirements, and the need to preserve industrial floorspace and protect existing businesses. Waltham Forest Council’s masterplan was developed i...

Gravity LDO

This is Gravity Ltd and Stantec UK Ltd

The LDO provides a flexible planning framework to enable bespoke occupier requirements to be delivered within the defined strategic and flexible parameters. The Gravity LDO deserves an award because it will create a smart campus, a place to work, live and play. It will create a campus that attracts international inward investment an...

Park Plaza West (Sunset Studios)

CBRE Limited, Revantage/HPP and Leonard Design Architects

CBRE has worked closely with Hudson Pacific Properties and Blackstone to secure a world-class film studio development In Broxbourne including 21 sound stages and a public open space dedication. The development will be in the top 10% of buildings in terms of sustainability. The development represents a £700m investment, including 850 ...

Brent Cross Town Electrical Sub-Station

CarneySweeney / Related Argent in partnership with Barnet Council

The project comprises an electrical substation wrapped innovatively in a piece of permanent public art at a huge scale, serving a large urban regeneration project, focussing on both sustainability and the local community. The vast scale of the artwork, at its highest point, is taller than the Angel of the North, and is in a prominent l...

CAPA College

Race Cottam Associates

This purpose-built performing arts college in Wakefield is one of the only facilities of its kind outside of London, nurturing the next generation of performers, creatives, designers and technicians. CAPA College aims to educate and inspire 16-19 year olds with serious ambitions for a career in the creative arts, and its three storey, ...

Helensburgh Waterfront Development (HWD)

Argyll & Bute Council

HWD is the largest investment in sport our Council has ever made. It’s a decade long regeneration of Helensburgh which is re-discovering its historic profile as a waterside destination. Masterplanning of the town made a strong commitment to ‘town centre first’ principles and connecting the development to the Clyde and adjoining ...

Rochester Riverside - Phases 1 & 2

FrancisKnight, LUC & BPTW

Award winning Rochester Riverside, Kent stretches from Rochester Bridge to Doust Way. Working with clients Countryside Properties and The Hyde Group, FrancisKnight public art consultants collaborated with the design team of landscape architects LUC and architects BPTW to deliver embedded public art commissions within this flagship deve...

Windrush Public Art Commissions

Hackney Council

In 2018, Hackney Council invited artists with African-Caribbean heritage to develop permanent public artworks to commemorate and celebrate the Windrush generation, recognising the community’s contribution to the borough and the UK. The project involved consultation with 800 residents and saw permanent sculptures, designed by artists Ve...

York Place

Patel Taylor

York Place is a hybrid building that delivers 299 mixed-tenure homes, new headquarters for the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and a significant public realm transformation in Battersea. The RAD activities animate the ground level, while three residential buildings rise from a landscaped single-storey podium above. Coda, the striking cent...

Everards Printworks, Bristol

Artisan Real Estate

With the completion of Everards Printworks, Artisan has delivered one of the UK’s most innovative urban regeneration projects. During some of the most challenging times experienced by the UK’s construction industry, the area has been transformed from an empty, unused gap site into a thriving hotel, commercial and residential quarter em...

Parliamentary Northern Estate: 1 Derby Gate and Norman Shaw North

BDP

Parliament’s Northern Estate masterplan demonstrates an exemplar, long-term conservation-led approach to the restoration of historic buildings at the heart of one of London’s most highly visited historic areas in Westminster. The project has safeguarded the buildings’ significance, bringing their fire, access and accommodation provisio...

Restoration and reuse of the historic EMD Granada Walthamstow

London Borough of Waltham Forest

The Walthamstow Granada served as a cinema and concert venue for more than seven decades before closing in 2003 and falling into disrepair. Then, in 2019, Waltham Forest Council bought the venue and struck a deal with Soho Theatre to open its doors once again. A team of conservation experts is restoring the Grade II listed building to ...

Southgates Masterplan Development Brief

BDP

The Southgates Masterplan Development Brief sets a strategic vision and principles to guide future development within the historic Southgates area of King’s Lynn. The Masterplan is centred on removing traffic from the Grade I listed South Gate Scheduled Ancient Monument, to create a heritage centrepiece and vibrant urban quarter, suppo...

Wrexham Indoor Markets

Lawray Architects

Wrexham’s indoor markets form a significant part of the City’s historic character and identity, which in turn shapes people’s perceptions and experience of place. Their restoration and modernisation will unlock the potential of the Grade II-listed market buildings to enable them to thrive for the benefit of local traders, local people,...

Collaton 'A Different Approach'

Pillar Land Securities Ltd and Coln Signature Homes

Collaton Park is a pilot scheme for “A Different Approach” to address the extreme housing challenges faced in Newton & Noss parish. The project seeks to rebalance the existing housing market by delivering a range of new and innovative housing tenures and employment solutions. The scheme is the result of the collective work of the local...

Design Future London

Greater London Authority, MOBIE, Microsoft, Minecraft Education, C40 Cities, Croydon Council, Mayor’s Fund for London

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LLDC Women and Girls Safety Project

London Legacy Development Corporation

In 2021, the London Legacy Development Corporation launched the Women and Girls Safety Project in an attempt to address gender inequality in urban design and planning. The project brought together stakeholders from a broad range of sectors and established a collective — involving landowners, developers, construction firms, the police, ...

Partnership for Protecting and Enhancing Argyll’s Rainforest

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Transmission

SSEN Transmission and ACT, supported by Argyll and Bute Council and NatureScot, are working in partnership to protect and enhance Argyll’s rainforest, a unique habitat of ancient and native woodland near Lochgilphead. The partnership started planting 30 hectares of woodland in December 2022, supporting SSEN Transmission’s commitment...

Southgates Masterplan Development Brief

BDP

The Southgates masterplan, adopted by BCKLWN in late 2022, was developed through partnership working between the borough council officers and members, NCC; HE; the Town Deal, local stakeholder organisations, and the appointed consultant team. The interventions proposed by the Masterplan cut across multiple disciplines and jurisdictions...

Towns Fund Delivery Partner

Arup with Nichols, Copper Consultancy, FutureGov, Grant Thornton and Savills

Our ‘Total Towns’ approach –which sets out the economic, environmental, social and leadership aspects of a place that enable success—underpinned the work of multi-disciplinary teams who collaborated to support Towns’ complex challenges. They seamlessly came together, regardless of organisation or location, to support Towns to resolve s...

University of Central Lancashire Student Centre & University Square, Preston

University of Central Lancashire

The University of Central Lancashire transformed its physical linkage with the City of Preston, providing a “front door” to the University and a safe community space for students, staff and residents. The conception, planning and delivery of the project was a triumph in large-scale partnership working which involved many overlapping an...

Bellsmyre Regeneration, Dumbarton

ECD Architects

The Bellsmyre Regeneration project significantly improves the quality of the environment and housing in an area that has been neglected for many years. Following consultations with local residents and stakeholders, the new homes have been designed to factor in the needs of many whilst providing a modern take on traditional Scottish arc...

Bristol Parkway Station and surrounds Masterplan

Arup

Our masterplan provides a vision for change at Bristol Parkway over the next 10 years and beyond. It sets out the place that could emerge and the benefits that can be realised by rethinking the role, function and physical shape of the station and the surrounding area. It reimagines Bristol Parkway as a destination with a new station, p...

Clichy Estate Regeneration

PRP and London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The Clichy Estate Regeneration will transform a site housing three ailing 1960s council blocks and a community facing frequent crime into a vibrant, safe and sustainable new neighbourhood. Amidst fluctuating lockdown rules, we undertook an ambitious consultation process to ensure residents’ needs were central to the design. Our consent...

Fisherton Street Regeneration

Westminster City Council and Linkcity

Grahame Park estate regeneration Masterplan

Patel Taylor on behalf of Notting Hill Genesis

Grahame Park is the largest housing estate in the London Borough of Barnet. Built in the 1970s, design issues have contributed to problems including overcrowding, crime and anti-social behaviour, and low quality of life for residents. Stage B of this multi-phase masterplan sets out a new vision featuring 2,088 new homes, community faci...

Poplar Riverside, E14

St William Homes LLP

The Poplar Riverside masterplan promotes the future use of the river and open space for commuting, exercising and socialising through the provision of key connections and a new continuous 500m riverside walk. Our proposal for increased landscaping and open space on site will see an overall net increase in biodiversity compared to exist...

Tipner East, Portsmouth

HGP Architects/Vivid Homes

The scheme will deliver 835 dwellings, over 700 square meters of community and commercial floorspace, provide excellent links to sustainable transport and infrastructure, reduce the need for private car use, provide a minimum of 30% affordable housing units, exceeds requirements for accessible dwellings, significantly deliver towards t...

Alscot Road

Greenaway Architecture

The scheme is worthy of the Design Excellence award for its high quality design quality that challenges the typical market offering for student housing, whilst significantly enhancing the site’s immediate and wider setting from around the park. The building's design enhances the experience for passers by with significantly increased ...

Cadent Gas Depot, Imperial Road, Fulham

National Grid Property

New industrial buildings in central London are rare. This is a functioning industrial building, delivering essential energy-related support to the local community and continuing the tradition of gas-related activity in Fulham. However, it is not a purely functional building. It is also a beautiful building, contributing to the area’...

Glade of Light Memorial

BCA Landscape for Manchester City Council, built by Galliford Try

On 22 May 2017, twenty-two people, concertgoers and their loved ones waiting for them, had their lives taken in a terrorist atrocity at the Manchester Arena. The Glade of Light is a unique memorial landscape with power and honesty. The abstracted design embraces an emotional response to the ineffability of sorrow and loss. It has...

Hull Royal Infirmary New Main Entrance and Paediatric Department

Race Cottam Associates

The entrance to Hull Royal Infirmary was set-back and not very visible, causing confusion for patients and visitors. As part of a new three-storey extension, the entrance has been redesigned and now features a double-height glazed atrium, inviting people in while maximising natural light and ventilation. The project also involved redes...

Wardian London

EcoWorld Ballymore

Wardian is a world-first in housing design: the biophilia-inspired residential development overlooks Canary Wharf and brings 767 premium apartments including suites, one- and two-bedroom, and penthouses to the market. An oasis of tranquillity, just moments from London’s bustling hub of business and finance, Wardian incorporates nature ...

York Way Estate

Maccreanor Lavington

Our proposed ‘Villa’ buildings are designed to respond to and compliment the language of the current York Wat Estate, while being contemporary in their material and expression. The buildings will primarily be made of brick; a robust, timeless material, prevalent to the local area and used throughout the estate. This will provide cont...

Botanical Place, West Byfleet

PRP & Retirement Villages

Botanical Place is set to redefine the standard for retirement-led communities, with the health and vitality of West Byfleet at the heart of the plans. It will breathe new life into a struggling village, with its unique intergenerational offering. Delivering 197 apartments above a new public square, community library and independent ...

Good Growth for Angel Edmonton

Enfield Council

Angel Edmonton is currently among the 10 per cent most deprived areas in England in terms of crime and poverty. The Good Growth for Angel Edmonton project has created a mix of new cultural and community spaces, engaging residents and driving regeneration. Four main interventions were designed in consultation with local people: the reno...

Harlow Town Centre Regeneration - Sustainable Transport Interchange and Hub

Harlow District Council

Harlow Town Centre Sustainable Transport Interchange and Hub is a catalytic project, supporting the major transformation of Harlow Town Centre, the town and wider Garden Town which is set to see an increase of 23,000 new homes and a population increase of over 50%. It is pivotal to support aspirational, but necessary, modal shift, net-...

Maritime Gateway, Southampton

GRID Architects with Packaged Living

Working alongside Packaged Living, a bespoke Built-to-Rent developer and operator at the forefront of the private rented sector, GRID’s proposals will revitalise a site covered by surface car parking and fulfil local aspirations by creating a dynamic daytime and evening economy, new transport connections, and embedding a grain of stree...

Preventing Suicides in High Rise Buildings and Structures Planning Advice Note (PAN)

City of London Corporation

The PAN is an important document which will assist in preventing suicide attempts from high rise buildings and structures in the City of London and minimise the impact and consequences of suicide on the City’s communities. The PAN deserves an award in recognition of its practical guidance for developers during the planning applicati...

The Strand Waterfront, Liverpool Connectivity

BCA Landscape & Amey Consulting for Liverpool City Council, built by Graham Construction

The Strand is at the epicentre of Liverpool’s renowned waterfront, surrounded by Grade II* listed buildings and the infamous Liver Building. It is a flagship ACTIVE-TRAVEL project for the city – helping to create a HEALTHIER human-centric place to live and work for generations to come. This environmentally conscious regeneration sche...

Chadwell Heath Transformation Area

Haptic Architects

Over the last 20 years, industrial capacity in London has fallen by around a quarter whilst the demand for industrial land is expected to rise, with a particular need for logistics and SME space to service London’s growing economy and population. Our strategy for Chadwell Heath responds to this, presenting a future-facing, mixed-use pl...

Chilmington

Hodson Developments

Circus Street

U+I

Comprising a mix of residential, office, retail and cultural uses, Circus Street has transformed a derelict market in Brighton. The one-hectare scheme includes 142 homes, 450 student bedrooms, 2,800 square metres of office space, 10 shops, a 1,300 square-metre dance space and two public spaces. Sustainable features include solar-powere...

Mindenhurst, Deepcut

JTP on behalf of Skanska

The Mindenhurst project is one of integration and enrichment, underpinned by a commitment to offer social, environmental and economic benefits to the adjoining existing village of Deepcut. The relocation of military activity represents a complex, phased process, around which sophisticated plans for the transformation of the Barracks si...

TwelveTrees Park

Berkeley Homes (South East London)

TwelveTrees Park presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform underused industrial land into a lively and inclusive new neighbourhood that serves the local community. Its architecture imparts a sense of place and character; and the variety of homes will suit a range of lifestyles. Commercial and retail premises throughout t...

Collaton Park, Newton Ferrers

Pillar Land Securities Ltd and Coln Signature Homes

Collaton Park, a pilot scheme for ‘A Different Approach’, which seeks to rebalance the existing housing market by delivering a range of new and innovative housing tenures and employment solutions in rural communities based on need identified by the community, enabling them to grow and thrive. This community led scheme is delivering a ...

Glasgow Liveable Neighbourhoods

Arcadis with Collective Architecture and Glasgow City Council

The Liveable Neighbourhoods approach prioritises: •people first design •investment in high quality public realm and green infrastructure at local, neighbourhood and city scales •grassroot projects The bottom-up approach to placemaking adopted by the project team has presented the voices of Glaswegian communities. This celebrat...

Lancaster West Future Neighbourhood Vision

Lancaster West Future Neighbourhood Vision: co-designing a resident-led vision for London’s largest eco-neighbourhood

The FNV successfully identified community priorities for the neighbourhood to better utilise facilities and space to support the Estate in becoming London’s first eco-neighbourhood. The vision enabled meaningful co-design with residents and successfully delivered outputs that serve as tools for managing and delivering future resident-l...

Neighbourhood Priorities Fund

London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC)

The London Legacy Development Corporation’s Neighbourhood Priorities Fund takes a community-driven approach to infrastructure funding. Applicants are supported to apply for a share of community infrastructure levy receipts to bring forward projects that address local challenges. A panel of residents and other local stakeholders are the...

Purley Strategic Regeneration Framework

Urban Symbiotics

Purley was facing rapid development and the community felt neglected, unheard and were unhappy with the uncoordinated approach to local sites. This was coupled with the challenges posed by the pandemic and bankruptcy faced by our client, Croydon Council.Despite these difficulties, the Purley Panel succeeded in aligning the principles o...

Young Researchers in Residence Programme (YRIR) in collaboration with LSE Cities and Make Space for Girls

Countryside Partnerships

YRIR is an innovative model for investigating and designing urban spaces with local young women central to the design process. This initiative explores public realm experiences and spatial peer-research methodologies with youth. Young local people are designing the very spaces that they will use. It is the only initiative in the UK ...

Perry Barr Regeneration catalysed by the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

Birmingham City Council and Arup

The regeneration of Perry Barr was catalysed by the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which both utilised and unlocked the enhanced future use of publicly-owned land assets. The Council, supported by Arup, used the opportunity to be bold and ambitious in accelerating and increasing the scope of its vision for the future growth. The p...

Southwark Over Station Development

Deloitte

This project represents two public sector organisations drawing their resources together to enable the development of two optimised schemes on land which has previously always faced impediments. Southwark OSD is a landmark scheme for TfL, delivering high quality, sustainable office floorspace which will make use of modern methods of co...

The Strand Waterfront, Liverpool Connectivity

BCA Landscape & Amey Consulting for Liverpool City Council, built by Graham Construction

Weyside Urban Village, Guildford Borough Council

Guildford Borough Council

Guildford Borough Council, Thames Water, and Surrey County Council share ownership of a 30-hectare brownfield site currently occupied by a sewage treatment works and a recycling centre. The Weyside Urban Village project will relocate these facilities and provide up to 1,550 homes, six Gypsy and Traveller pitches, and 6,600 square metre...

Charlton Riverside

Hyde Housing Group

Herringham Quarter will deliver a new mixed-use community, quality affordable homes and a mix of ground floor uses to support employment in this area; first class public realm and a significantly upgraded riverfront; and technical solutions that respond to numerous existing site constraints ensuring that adjacent safeguarded wharfs and...

Dagenham Green

Peabody Trust and Dagenham Green Ltd; PRP, Savills, HTA Design Landscape

Dagenham Green will become the urban heart of the area, designed to connect locals, new residents and visitors. Starting with people, we are creating an exciting place, centred around social amenity, vibrant uses and generous public realm that will foster a sense of community. A diverse community will proudly live here, making the most...

Industria, Barking

Haworth Tompkins

Northbank Green - Wirral Waters

BCA Landscape for Peel Waters

Northbank Green is an exemplar case-study in the creation of a new highly sustainable place-led, public green-space. It sits at the heart of the new residentially led neighbourhood regeneration area in Wirral Waters. It has been designed to be the focal and congregation point for a new emerging community. It also serves to open the wat...

West Longbridge

PJA with St. Modwen

The development of West Longbridge heals what was one of the most painful manufacturing collapses in the regions history and is a symbol of a new, brighter era for the West Midlands. The development, in particular the careful restoration and re-naturalisation of the River Rea corridor, the development of the linear park landscape and d...

Ebury Bridge Estate Renewal Project – City of Westminster

Westminster City Council and Gowling WLG

Entrant's Summary: Redevelopment of the Ebury Bridge Estate forms a key part of Westminster City Council’s plans to develop more council homes for social rent. The project, which is now under construction, aims to provide 781 new homes, of which 53% will be affordable. Income from home sales will subsidise delivery of new and refurbish...

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