Planning Categories
Award for infrastructure planning
Grange University Hospital
BDP
Entrant's Summary: BDP’s long-term planning strategy adopts a plan-led approach to deliver a state-of-the art hospital and enable the remodelling of healthcare in South Wales. The adoption of a Local Development Framework in 2008 laid the foundation for a robust outline planning permission in 2013 and a reserved matters consent in 2015...
Broadwater Primary School
Rolfe Judd Planning
Entrant's Summary: This development involves the retention and sensitive conversion of the existing Junior School building and the construction of a new purpose-built building for the proposed special educational needs school students. The new contemporary building will replace the existing Lower Years building and be incorporated into...
Award for plan-making
OPDC Industrial Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation
Entrant's Summary: OPDC’s Industrial SPD provides a groundbreaking approach to delivering best practice intensified industrial developments from a placemaking, design and sustainability perspective. The SPD specifically tackles issues with large floorplate and multi-storey industrial premises which are likely to become more commonplace...
Lambourn Neighbourhood Plan
Bluestone Planning Partnership
Entrant's Summary: The Lambourn Neighbourhood Plan considers the unique nature of the racing community and the issues faced around providing suitably priced racing staff accommodation in an isolated rural location with limited public transport and access to facilities and services. Lambourn has 137 listed buildings and structures, 4 co...
Lighting Supplementary Planning Document
City of London Corporation
Entrant's Summary: The Lighting SPD puts in place a methodology to ensure lighting design is considered as a holistic part of proposed developments. The SPD provides guidance on a broad range of topics related to lighting, including public safety, inclusion and accessibility, sustainability and biodiversity, residential amenity, and ar...
Mansfield Town Centre Design Code
PJA on behalf of Mansfield District Council
Entrant's Summary: Mansfield District Council was one of twenty-five authorities to have been selected as a 'Pathfinder' to help set their own standards for design through development of a Design Code. The Code covers the town centre and aligns with the area considered through the Town Centre Masterplan. The Council worked with consult...
Sheffield City Centre Priority Neighbourhood Framework
Planit and Homes England
Entrant's Summary: Working for Sheffield City Council, the framework has informed the emerging Sheffield Local Plan - forming a unique approach to holistic city making, whilst considering the importance of liveable neighbourhoods as units of change. It supports the city on its path to Zero carbon, delivering on Sheffield City Council’s...
Award for planning consultancy of the year
Tibbalds
Entrant's Summary: At Tibbalds, we are passionate about making people friendly places. We have a longstanding reputation for our planning and urban design expertise, and for providing a consistently high quality service. Our clients and communities benefit from our multidisciplinary and collaborative approach that puts people at heart ...
Arcadis Consulting (UK)
Entrant's Summary: Arcadis is a global leader in sustainable design and consultancy solutions. We are proud to submit this nomination for the Planning Consultancy of the Year award. Our Planners play a vital role in addressing the most pressing environmental and societal challenges of our time, from climate change mitigation, urban res...
Arup's UK Town Planning team
Arup
Entrant's Summary: Arup’s 120 UK Town Planners are industry trailblazers. We are profoundly committed to envisioning, planning and creating resilient and sustainable futures. Our work leaves a positive impact on the environments we engage with and the communities with which we collaborate. For us, sustainable development is everything....
CarneySweeney - Planning Consultancy
CarneySweeney
Entrant's Summary: CarneySweeney is a fully independent town planning consultancy that is proud of the ability of its staff to deliver dynamic and tailored planning advice in any planning sector. Our aim is to be among the most sought-after advisors throughout England and Wales for clients that need expert assistance in navigating an i...
DLBP Ltd
Entrant's Summary: DLBP is a leading (top-50) UK town planning consultancy, established in London since 2010. We have a track record of hundreds of projects, with permission secured in 97% of cases. DLBP has a diverse portfolio, delivering care home schemes, residential extensions, commercial, educational, infills and conversions and g...
Rapleys Town Planning
Rapleys LLP
Entrant's Summary: A year of people initiatives, client delivery, new services, sustainable growth and diversity, all powered Rapleys’ Planning division to its most successful period yet with turnover up by over one third, instructions up c.40% and a significant increase in the number of planners which are already propelling onward, an...
Award for planning for affordable housing
Brook House
Sphere25 and GRID Architects
Entrant's Summary: Permission was granted in December 2023 for the redevelopment of the Brook House site to deliver 102 social rent affordable homes for single women - a 162% uplift. Sphere25 submitted the application on behalf of Women’s Pioneer Housing and their development partner L&Q to secure a 100% affordable scheme designed with...
Addison Park - local homes for local heroes
McPartland Planning
Entrant's Summary: In 1919, the so-called Addison Act received Royal Assent. It was a direct response to the nation’s demand for “homes fit for heroes” following the Great War. A century later, millions of us stood outside our houses to applaud modern-day heroes fighting on the frontline in a war against the Covid Pandemic. Sadly, many...
Newnton Close, Hackney
Pegasus Group
Entrant's Summary: Newnton Close is a highly sustainable, 100% affordable housing upgrade scheme that places tenants at its heart. It replaces aged accommodation at the end of its viable lifespan with a high quality 76-apartment scheme that not only meets tenants’ specific needs but also adds huge value through environmental enhancemen...
Award for planning for the natural environment
Winner: Urban Greening Factor x High Density
MICA Architects and London Legacy Development Corporation
Entrant's Summary: The 2021 London Plan, takes a co-ordinated approach to tackle the climate crisis and identifies the importance of urban greening as a component of sustainable urban development. The “Urban Greening Factor (UGF) x High Density” Study provides guidance on the best way to deliver high quality urban greening in emerging ...
Abbey Barn Park
Berkeley Homes (Oxford and Chiltern)
Entrant's Summary: The natural environment was at the forefront of the development from the earliest stages of the design process. The development is centered around the restoration of 34 acres of semi-natural parkland, ‘The Ride’, which was originally a stretch of landscaped green space created in the 1800’s when an avenue of Lime tre...
Award for planning to address climate change
Low Carbon Development Toolkit
London Borough of Hackney in collaboration with London Councils
Entrant's Summary: The Low Carbon Development Toolkit, a collaborative effort led by the London Borough of Hackney in partnership with London boroughs and London Councils, is a targeted collection of documents to aid boroughs’ planning teams in achieving better low carbon outcomes across the built environment. It provides practical gui...
Delivering Net Zero Study
Haringey Council
Entrant's Summary: The Delivering Net Zero study is an innovative collaboration, led by Haringey Council, involving 18 London boroughs and a multidisciplinary team of five sustainability focused consultancies. The project aims to deliver ambitious planning policies that minimise carbon emissions generated by new buildings when they are...
Jaywick Sands Place Plan
HAT Projects
Entrant's Summary: The Jaywick Sands Place Plan is a regeneration strategy for the seafront community of Jaywick Sands, which is at high risk of tidal flooding as well as experiencing severe deprivation. Improving the flood defences and flood resilience is a precondition for successful regeneration, but this must not come at the expens...
Park Avenue
You Are Home
Entrant's Summary: At Park Avenue in Brighton, You Are Home has built two EPC A-rated design-led townhouses – a measurement achieved by less than 1% of new homes in England and Wales* – alongside seven B/C-rated apartments in a converted mansion house. Investment in vapour barrier walls to increase air tightness and the inclusion of un...
The Phoenix
Human Nature
Entrant's Summary: The Phoenix is a walkable, mixed-use, multi-tenure redevelopment of a brownfield site in the South Downs National Park. It adopts a ‘whole-place’ approach to social, nature and climate impacts, going beyond a conventional ‘net-zero’ policy. It will be constructed in biobased materials, such as engineered timber; reus...
Award for Stakeholder engagement in planning
Calderdale Placemaking and Design Guide SPD
JTP
Entrant's Summary: The Calderdale Placemaking and Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) is a district-wide guide, co-created with local stakeholders and community. The document supports policies in the adopted Local Plan to ensure developments in Calderdale deliver consistent, high-quality places. Engagement has helped def...
Former Greggs Bakery, Twickenham - London Square and Cascade
Cascade Communications
Entrant's Summary: In November 2023, following almost six years work, members of Richmond Council’s Planning Committee overturned the officer recommendation and approved plans for the former Greggs Bakery site in Twickenham. This decisive move went against the policy position of the adopted and emerging Local Plan but was supported by ...
The Friary Quarter: The North Street Regeneration
Property House Marketing
Entrant's Summary: The success of the stakeholder engagement for the regeneration of North Street in Guildford is clearly evident. Not only was the planning application approved at committee but public opinion was overwhelmingly positive, with 213 people formally declaring their support and just 18 objections. On a contentious site whe...
Award for use of digital technology in planning
PlanApps
Commonplace
Entrant's Summary: From our research with 2000+ citizens, 76% feel they have no voice in Planning Applications. They are excluded by a lack of awareness or understanding of proposals and out-dated ways of contributing to Planning Applications. More than half of citizens believe decisions are made in secret. PlanApps provides a revoluti...
Consultation Module
London Borough of Hounslow
Entrant's Summary: The London Borough of Hounslow has worked collaboratively with Chesterfield Borough Council and the consultancy Urban Intelligence to develop a digital Consultation Module. This Module revolutionises the representation management process, making it more efficient, thereby freeing up resources for community engagement...
Herefordshire Natural Environment Evidence
LUC
Entrant's Summary: The Herefordshire Natural Environment Evidence project, a collaborative endeavour by LUC for Herefordshire Council, stands as an exemplar of digital innovation in the planning domain. It serves as a comprehensive, web-based natural environment evidence base that redefines the landscape of professional planning. Integ...
Landcycle.com
Land Software
Entrant's Summary: Landcycle is a license free planning platform that intends to make information freely available to all planning practitioners
Awards for planning for increased housing delivery
Small Sites, Small Builders – De-risking Small Sites in Camden.
Inner Circle Consulting
Entrant's Summary: On behalf of their public sector partners, the Inner Circle Consulting team has been responsible for unlocking half of the funding from the Greater London Authority’s Small Sites, Small Builders Fund. The London Borough of Camden was one of these successful bidders. In partnership, LB Camden and Inner Circle have co-...
Whitehill & Bordon Project Structuring Plan - Collaborative Masterplanning Process
Urban Place Lab and Avison Young
Entrant's Summary: The regeneration planning consent of Bordon Garrison (now ‘Prince Philip Park’) required agreement of a ‘Structuring Plan’ to fill the ‘void’ between approved parameters plans and future detailed site masterplans. The Structuring Plan was to provide planning certainty for future reserved matters applications across t...
Planning law firm of the year
BDB Pitmans Planning Team
BDB Pitmans
Entrant's Summary: Our entry concerns our work for Alternative Use Boston Projects Limited (AUBPL) in the promotion of a major Energy from Waste (EfW) facility in Boston, Lincolnshire. We make the entry in the context of our rapidly growing practice in energy consenting, our market leading DCO practice generally and our contribution as...
Exciting community based projects for planning law firm Town Legal
Town Legal
Entrant's Summary: Town Legal are the leading boutique planning law firm in the UK. We offer expert planning law advice for complex and high-profile projects across all property sectors from residential and offices to life sciences and energy. We are passionate about helping our clients to plan creative and sustainable spaces for the f...
Gowling WLG real estate team
Gowling WLG
Entrant's Summary: Gowling WLG offers a full spectrum of advice on all aspects of planning law, including development consent orders, highways, compulsory purchase and compensation, and natural capital. With multiple specialisms, our practice extends from strategic advice on complex planning applications to appeals and court litigation...
High Road West, Tottenham, a scheme by Lendlease
Planning and Environment team at Ashurst
Entrant's Summary: Ashurst is advising Lendlease on its £1bn+ high profile estate regeneration of the High Road West site in Tottenham, Haringey. The development delivers on Haringey Council's long held ambitions to redevelop the area by delivering thousands of vital new homes, open space and community facilities. Over a thousand jobs ...
Planning permission of the year
Friary Court, Crutched Friars, EC1
City of London
Entrant's Summary: Proactive City planners were instrumental in finding a new permanent home for the Migration Museum in Friary Court, 3,100 sqm, over three floors of exhibition, educational, art, cultural, café, and training space, with substantial public realm benefits and prominent multi-aspect frontages. The Museum celebrates migra...
85 Gracechurch Street, London EC3
City of London
Entrant's Summary: 85 Gracechurch is an exemplar of inclusive social, economic, cultural, heritage and public realm benefits negotiated through exemplary collaboration. The 30,000 sqm of much needed Grade A office space will accommodate 2,220 jobs, a catalyst for the transformation of this part of the City as a 7 day and evening, cultu...
Peabody - Former Holloway Prison
Avison Young on behalf of Peabody
Entrant's Summary: In August 2022, an application (ref. P2021/3273/FUL) was approved at the Former Holloway Prison, Parkhurst Road, London, N7 0NU for the residential-led, mixed use redevelopment of the site. The site comprises the Former Holloway Prison, which was originally constructed in 1856 and became a women’s only facility in 19...
Shortlist: ReCharge One
Asserson
Entrant's Summary: Asserson ran a successful planning appeal for an innovative off-grid zero-carbon sustainable tourism and electric vehicle facility within the South Downs National Park on behalf of ReCharge One Limited which shows that the most beautiful parts of the country can and should support innovative sustainable ideas, and ca...
Local authority planning team of the year
London Borough of Haringey Planning Team
London Borough of Haringey
Entrant's Summary: Our submission has 5 themes… (1) Our Journey of Improvement – Our journey from worst LPA to one of the best can help inspire struggling LPAs (2) Our Joined-up Spatial Planning service – Our Planning service is embedded within other key placemaking functions …which delivers… (3) Social & Community outcomes and Equalit...
City of London Planning Division
City of London
Entrant's Summary: The City's small Planning team make a big impact, delivering the floorspace the City needs to maintain its international position, the engine of the UK's economy. The team is redefining the City as an inclusive, culturally enriching 7-day destination, welcoming all communities by delivering free to visit cultural and...
Enfield Council Planning Service
Enfield Borough Council
Entrant's Summary: Over the past 16 months, the Planning Service at Enfield has embarked on a remarkable transformational journey. The transformation has been focused on efficiency improvements and new ways of working to enable a significant reduction in the backlog of legacy planning applications and enforcement cases, which has hugel...
Greater Cambridge Shared Planning
Entrant's Summary: Greater Cambridge Shared Planning (GCSP) formed in 2018 is the planning service for Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council. One of the largest planning services in the Country, it processes circa 6,000 applications annually and is currently overseeing 13 strategic scale (1,000 home plus) dev...
Planning Policy & Decisions Team
London Legacy Development Corporation
Entrant's Summary: The work of the London Legacy Development Corporation Planning Policy & Decisions Team has been instrumental in shaping and delivering the successful placemaking legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Comprising a diverse and talented group of planners and technical support staff, the innovative and ...
Award for best housing scheme (500 homes or more)
Meridian Water
Enfield Council
Entrant's Summary: Meridian Water is an ambitious, innovative regeneration project in North London, led by Enfield Council, that aims to deliver up to 10,000 homes, 6,000 jobs, and various amenities, social infrastructure, and green spaces. Despite facing challenges, the Council has shown resilience and adaptability, taking decisive ac...
Peabody - Former Holloway Prison
Avison Young on behalf of Peabody
Entrant's Summary: In August 2022, an application (ref. P2021/3273/FUL) was approved at the Former Holloway Prison, Parkhurst Road, London, N7 0NU for the residential-led, mixed use redevelopment of the site. The site comprises the Former Holloway Prison, which was originally constructed in 1856 and became a women’s only facility in 19...
Red Bank
Maccreanor Lavington
Entrant's Summary: Red Bank is the first phase of the wider Victoria North Initiative to the north of Manchester City Centre and Victoria Station, offering an opportunity to deliver approximately 15,000 homes in 15-20 years. The Masterplan covers over 15 hectares and will include up to 4,801 homes in three distinct neighbourhoods centr...
Syon Lane
St Edward
Entrant's Summary: St Edward has just received planning consent to redevelop two brownfield sites; Tesco and Homebase on Syon Lane, kick starting the regeneration of the Golden Mile in Hounslow. The masterplan will deliver 2,150 homes, 35% of which will be tenure blind affordable homes. Alongside this, there will be a generous seven ac...
Placemaking Categories
Award for design excellence
Rowcroft Hospice, Ella’s Gardens
PRP
Entrant's Summary: Located on a challenging hilltop site, the redevelopment of Rowcroft’s 23 acre site in Torquay will provide an exemplary, intergenerational continuing care community which will extend and improve Rowcroft’s exceptional care offer for South Devon. The proposal will add to Rowcroft’s existing hospice to deliver a world...
Berners Wells
Rolfe Judd Planning
Entrant's Summary: This is an exciting and attractive redevelopment of two adjoining buildings in the City of Westminster which created a flexible and more usable mixed-use building. The development retained the locally listed façade along Wells Street and completely redeveloped Berners Street property. The buildings can be occupied by...
West Malling Integrated Retirement Community
RCKa
Entrant's Summary: This innovative retirement development in the Kent market town of West Malling – part of RVG’s Thrive Living Collection - comprises 140 extra care units alongside a variety of communal facilities. It unlocks the rich ecological value of its site through careful arrangement of villa blocks, informed by nearby Georgian...
Award for fostering a healthy town centre
Our Cultural Heart, Huddersfield Town Centre
Pegasus Group
Entrant's Summary: Our Cultural Heart (OCH) is a flagship council-led regeneration scheme which forms part of a wider blueprint for Huddersfield Town Centre. The ‘blueprint’ is a ten-year vision to create a thriving, modern day town centre: a vibrant culture, art, leisure and nightlife offer, thriving businesses, a great place to live,...
Solihull ‘Urbs in Rure’ Public Realm Strategy
Arcadis Consulting
Entrant's Summary: The Solihull ‘Urbs in Rure’ Public Realm Strategy, a contemporary revival of Solihull’s ‘town in the country’ motto for a healthier town centre. A public realm masterplan to shift from grey to green, from cars to a people first environment that will attract investment and diversification, whilst addressing future soc...
Woolwich Leisure Centre
Tibbalds
Entrant's Summary: The new Woolwich Leisure Centre will provide opportunities for residents to lead more healthy and active lifestyles through increasing participation in sports and other activities. This development has an important role as part of the major regeneration of Woolwich Town Centre for the benefit of the local community. ...
Award for mixed use development
Daedalus Waterfront
MurrayTwohig Developments for Patron Daedalus
Syon Lane
St Edward
The Gaumont
Cadogan
Award for partnership working
Cities Alive: Designing Cities that Work for Women
Arup
Entrant's Summary: Designing Cities that Work for Women seeks to improve the global female urban experience and outlines a new gender-responsive approach to planning and design. It is a research piece developed by Arup, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the University of Liverpool. The research ide...
Beam Park
Entrant's Summary: The new 4,000-home masterplan for Beam Park is the culmination of a significant collaboration between developer Countryside Partnerships and housing association L&Q, in partnership with the Mayor of London, Barking and Dagenham and Havering Councils. Through this partnership, housing delivery will be accelerated, and...
Holloway Women’s Building
Inner Circle Consulting
Entrant's Summary: The Women’s Building is part of the wider redevelopment of the former site of Holloway Women’s Prison. The development will provide a new community of 985 mixed-tenure homes. The Women’s Building will continue to support women and help those at risk of entering the criminal justice system. Working with Peabody, LB Is...
The Barking Riverside Transport Interchange
Barking Riverside Limited, L&Q, Greater London Authority, Transport for London (TfL), Uber Boat by Thames Clippers, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Network Rail
Entrant's Summary: The Barking Riverside Transport Interchange has created transformative new connections for East London, comprising a London Overground station and an Uber Boat by Thames Clippers pier, accompanied by a network of cycle paths, a new cycle store, and new bus routes. The project brings together a remarkable and diverse ...
The LightHouse & Gardens, Startford.
Hadley Property Group
Entrant's Summary: The LightHouse and Gardens in Stratford E20 is a beacon of community collaboration and environmental stewardship, exemplifying the profound impact of cross-sector cooperation and unified efforts. The collective endeavour of diverse organisations and interdisciplinary groups has thoroughly revitalised the physical lan...
Award for promoting economic growth
Birkenhead Town Centre Regeneration
Stantec
Entrant's Summary: In 2019, Wirral Council and Muse Places formed a joint venture, the Wirral Growth Company (WGC), to transform Birkenhead town centre for its residents. Since then, Stantec has supported WGC in developing the scheme and driving stakeholder engagement to deliver their vision. Over the next 15 years, WGC aims to create ...
OPDC Industrial Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation
Entrant's Summary: OPDC’s Industrial SPD provides a groundbreaking approach to delivering best practice intensified industrial developments from a placemaking, design and sustainability perspective. The SPD specifically tackles issues with large floorplate and multi-storey industrial premises which are likely to become more commonplace...
Ratcliffe-on-Soar Local Development Order: delivering a transition to a low carbon future
Arup and Rushcliffe Borough Council
Entrant's Summary: Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is a coal fired power station in Nottinghamshire, scheduled for closure in September 2024. Arup and Uniper collaborated to support Rushcliffe Borough Council in establishing a Local Development Order (LDO) to transition the site to a more sustainable future, based on low-carbon energy ...
Award for regeneration
Church Street Regeneration
Bell Phillips
Entrant's Summary: The mixed-use estate regeneration scheme at Church Street, Westminster, is one of the largest projects of its type in London. When complete it will see the provision of up to 1,120 new homes (50% of which will be affordable), flexible new retail and affordable workspaces, a new library and community hub, new green sp...
The Brentford Project
Ballymore
Entrant's Summary: The Brentford Project represents the long-awaited and much-needed revitalisation of Brentford town centre – a long overlooked pocket of west London. Spanning 11.8 acres between the high street and waterfront, it is injecting new energy into the locality, designed as a walkable waterfront neighbourhood in which people...
Best use of brownfield land in placemaking
Sunspot
HAT Projects
Entrant's Summary: Sunspot is creating real change in the country’s most deprived community, through nurturing entrepreneurship and creating a literal and symbolic focal point. On the seafront in Jaywick Sands, it occupies a site that was derelict for decades – a visible scar in the centre of the community. Now housing over 20 business...
Crown Wharf
Macfarlane + Associates
Entrant's Summary: Crown Wharf will regenerate Canning Town centre and transform the existing industrial site into a sustainable mixed-use development with 800 homes above active ground floor retail, woven together with high-quality public realm. Allocated for development within LB of Newham’s ‘arc of opportunity’, the challenge was to...
Hartland Village
St Edward
Entrant's Summary: Hartland Village is an important brownfield regeneration site in Fleet, Hampshire. It will provide 1,500 much needed, sustainably located homes, alongside all the amenities needed to support a growing population with a two-form entry primary school, village centre, local shops, amenity green space and play areas equa...
Lombard Square, Plumstead - West Thamesmead, Royal Borough of Greenwich
Berkeley Homes Capital (East Thames)
Entrant's Summary: Situated on the site of Arsenal Football Club’s former stadium, Lombard Square revitalises 17 acres of derelict and inaccessible brownfield land into a place for a new community to grow and thrive delivering 1,913 new homes, 40% of which are affordable, over 47,000 sqft of industrial, community, commercial and employ...
Pendleton
Stantec
Entrant's Summary: Pendleton is a key focus for Salford's regeneration efforts. The City Council has a long-standing ambition to enhance the town centre, improve public spaces, renovate existing homes, including 1960s high-rise tower blocks, and introduce a substantial number of modern family homes. Stantec worked with the client to de...
St Ann’s New Neighbourhood
Lambert Smith Hampton on behalf of Peabody and Hill Group, with Scheme imagery and architecture by Karakusevic Carson Architects.
Entrant's Summary: St Ann’s New Neighbourhood utilises a vacant, underutilised brownfield site in Haringey, delivering an attractive, high-quality, residential-led Scheme. Developed by Peabody (formerly Catalyst), the proposals will provide up to 995 new homes of a range of tenures, 60% of which will be affordable (comprising 46% Inter...
Best use of publicly-owned land and/or property in placemaking
St Ann’s New Neighbourhood
Lambert Smith Hampton on behalf of Peabody and Hill Group, with Scheme imagery and architecture by Karakusevic Carson Architects.
Entrant's Summary: St Ann’s New Neighbourhood utilises a vacant, underutilised brownfield site in Haringey, delivering an attractive, high-quality, residential-led Scheme. Developed by Peabody (formerly Catalyst), the proposals will provide up to 995 new homes of a range of tenures, 60% of which will be affordable (comprising 46% Inter...
Southwark Land Commission
PRD and We Made That for the London Borough of Southwark
Entrant's Summary: The Southwark Land Commission makes bold recommendations for how more land in this central London borough can be freed up for public good. The Commission brought together a diverse group of members. All were unified in the view that social purpose must be at the centre of land use, and that this requires a major pivo...
Award for best housing scheme (fewer than 500 homes)
Blackbird Leys
Peabody & JTP
Entrant's Summary: Unanimously approved at Planning Committee in August 2023, Blackbird Leys is a high-density, social housing scheme that provides 294 affordable, low-energy homes within several infill sites across Blackbird Leys, in a joint venture between Oxford City Council and Peabody. Alongside apartments and family housing, the ...
Cosway Street
Bell Phillips
Entrant's Summary: Cosway Street is a 49-home development in Marylebone. The project has repaired a degraded streetscape and offers a contextual addition to the Lisson Grove conservation area, with a sculptural design that reflects the rhythms and proportions of neighbouring Victorian and Georgian buildings. It provides a range of apar...
Grove Court
Watkin Jones Group
Entrant's Summary: Grove Court will secure the renewal of an obsolete, urban, accessible site. Responding to a substantial need for new student homes, it will house students from UCL, and affordable workspace operated by charity ACME. Grove Court has been developed in close collaboration with local community groups, providing a new fre...
Marylebone Square Concord London
Concord London
Entrant's Summary: Marylebone Square, by Concord London, is a rare new development located in the heart of London’s Marylebone. Concord London’s sensitive approach has enabled the creation of the first full city block in Marylebone in 50 years, with over nine years of planning and construction transforming a site underutilised since th...
North Street
St Edward
Entrant's Summary: North Street is an important site in Guildford town centre, which will deliver significant benefits to the community. After sitting derelict for 30 years, North Street will become a new cultural destination in the town, with beautiful architecture, high quality public realm, pedestrianised streets, and new leisure an...
Weyside Urban Village, Phase 1
JTP
Entrant's Summary: Phase 1 forms part of the wider regeneration of Weyside Urban Village which will see the creation of a new sustainable community of 1,500 homes, mixed-uses and green space on the brownfield site of a former sewage treatment works and recycling centre situated along the River Wey. Since 2019, JTP has guided the projec...
Award for best use of arts, culture or sport in placemaking
London Irish Centre
Rolfe Judd Planning
The Gaumont
Cadogan
Award for best use of heritage in placemaking
New Life for Old College, Aberystwyth University
Lawray Architects
Entrant's Summary: Old College is an architecturally significant 19th century building which was the birthplace of the University of Wales. Proposals by Lawray Architects will see the Grade I listed building and the adjacent Grade II listed villas transform the University’s historic home into an exhibition centre, a place of learning a...
3 Mills Studios
Gort Scott
Entrant's Summary: The £6 million renovation and modernisation project at the 3 Mills Studios complex has upgraded a series of historic buildings to create over 10,000 sq.ft of new workspaces, alongside enhancing public accessibility to and enjoyment of the site. The 3 Mills project encompasses the adaptive and creative reuse of three ...
Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station Development Company
Entrant's Summary: Battersea Power Station is now open to the public after an eight-year restoration, transformed into a one-of-a-kind, mixed-use destination with 254 apartments, 565,000 sq ft of office space, and over 100 shops, bars, restaurants and leisure venues. The regeneration of Battersea Power Station has created a vibrant new...
Daedalus Waterfront
MurrayTwohig Developments for Patron Daedalus
Entrant's Summary: Daedalus Waterfront, a historic Naval base reinvented into a 42-acre mixed-use waterfront development on Lee-on-the-Solent. Working with the local community, a clear, shared set of objectives for the project were created; first, to bring jobs and opportunity to the area, second to preserve historic buildings and cele...
The Horlicks Factory, Horlicks Quarter
Berkeley Homes Oxford and Chiltern Ltd
Entrant's Summary: Constructed in 1908, the Horlicks Factory was locally listed in 1999 as an integral part of Slough’s skyline. Berkeley Homes has delivered c.300 homes in the former Factory site's extensive regeneration and plans up to 1300 new homes. At the heart of this regeneration is the restoration the Horlicks Factory, which wi...
Union Terrace Gardens
LDA Design
Entrant's Summary: LDA Design was commissioned by Aberdeen City Council to regenerate Union Terrace Gardens, a neglected but much-loved listed Victorian park in the heart of Aberdeen’s historic city centre conservation area. The future potential of the area has been unlocked by reinstating the Gardens historic significance and restorin...
Award for community-led placemaking
WINNER: Blackbird Leys
JTP
Editors Choice
Editors Choice Award
Meridian Water
Enfield Council
Entrant's Summary: Meridian Water is an ambitious, innovative regeneration project in North London, led by Enfield Council, that aims to deliver up to 10,000 homes, 6,000 jobs, and various amenities, social infrastructure, and green spaces. Despite facing challenges, the Council has shown resilience and adaptability, taking decisive ac...