Shortlist 2025
PLANNING CATEGORIES
AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR INCREASED HOUSING DELIVERY
Oxford Gardens, Bournemouth
Submitting Organisation: Cowen+Partners
Other key credits: Marchmont (Investment Management) & Peverell Securities (Client), HGH Consulting (Planning Consultant), Churchman Thornhill Finch (Landscape Consultant), Cascade (Community Engagement)
Executive summary from entrant: Designed by Cowen+Partners, Oxford Gardens is a landmark development delivering 487 high-quality homes alongside thoughtfully integrated amenities. The project includes coworking space to support flexible working, a retail unit, and a café, providing convenience and fostering community interaction. A cen...
Shortlist: TwelveTrees Park
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Capital
Executive summary from entrant:
TwelveTrees Park is a large brownfield regeneration project by West Ham station, providing 4,708 new homes (including 40% affordable housing on-site, up to 50% as a project), a secondary school, commercial and community facilities, 3 new bridges and c.12 acres of public open space. An increase of 861 homes over the site’s original cons...
AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Citizen's House
Submitting Organisation: Archio Ltd
Other key credits: London Community Land Trust
Executive summary from entrant: Citizens House is London's first purpose-built Community Land Trust housing project, delivering 11 genuinely affordable homes with discounted-sale prices linked to local wages rather than market rates. The project was delivered in partnership by London CLT and Lewisham Citizens, supported by CMA Planning...
Englishcombe Lane, Bath
Submitting Organisation: Arcadis
Other key credits: Arcadis; Bath and Northeast Somerset Council, Engain (Environmental Gain Ltd.)
Executive summary from entrant: Described by the local planning authority as “exemplary” and observed by a member of the Bath & Northeast Somerset Council (B&NES) Planning Committee as bringing “immense” social value, Land North of Englishcombe Lane (Englishcombe Lane) is a landscape-led development providing 16 exceptional affordable ...
Shortlist: Forest Road E17
Submitting Organisation: Pocket Living
Executive summary from entrant:
Forest Road makes excellent use of an under-utilised site, to provide 100% affordable homes for first-time buyers. Whilst sold at a 20% discount to the local market, the homes do not compromise on spatial or design excellence and are well-proportioned to maximise usability and functionality. The scheme secured planning consent during t...
AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
8 Hills Regional Park Spatial Framework
Submitting Organisation: LUC
Other key credits: National Trust
Executive summary from entrant: The proposed 8 Hills Regional Park covers an area of over fifty square miles between Bromsgrove and the West Midlands conurbation. As a landscape not covered by a strategic designation, it lacks a framework to manage land use tensions (e.g. between nature protection/enhancement and public access) or attr...
Burpham Court Farm Nature Reserve
Submitting Organisation: Stantec
Other key credits: Guildford Borough Council, Stantec, Gleeds, Savills Planning, Markides
Executive summary from entrant: The planning consent to change the use of the land at Burpham Court Farm has secured a new ~50-hectare Nature Reserve for Guildford’s local community while enhancing its biodiversity. It may be one of the first nature reserves to meet Suitable Alternative Natural Green Spaces (SANG) criteria whilst also ...
Creating new habitat banks in Greater Cambridge for Biodiversity Net Gain
Submitting Organisation: Greater Cambridge Shared Planning
Executive summary from entrant:
1. In 2023/24, Greater Cambridge Shared Planning took a pivotal step in advancing biodiversity conservation by establishing several new Biodiversity Net Gain habitat banks across its region. This groundbreaking initiative not only laid the foundation for sustainable biodiversity mitigation in development projects, unlocking reliable of...
Kittiwake Artificial Nesting Structures for Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm
Submitting Organisation: LDA Design
Other key credits: Ørsted – the client; LDA Design; Royal HaskoningDHV; NIRAS; GoBe; Red7 Marine; Four Tees Engineering; Seiche; Anatec; MSDS Marine; WSP; Neubau; Fugro; Spectrum Geosurvey; Balfour Beatty
Executive summary from entrant: The black-legged kittiwake is on the UK red list for conservation status. Global leaders in offshore wind energy, Ørsted, commissioned artificial nesting structures (ANS) to conserve kittiwake colonies and to compensate for potential impacts of Hornsea 3, the UK’s largest offshore windfarm. The structure...
Lower Darent Riverside Strategy
Submitting Organisation: Arup
Other key credits: Dartford Borough Council, Environment Agency
Executive summary from entrant: In response to the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan, the Lower Darent Riverside Strategy uses Nature-based Solutions to address flooding from the River Darent and River Thames, worsened by climate change. The Strategy promotes consistent local flood defence planning for Dartford town centre, park, and marshes, m...
St George
Submitting Organisation: St George (The Berkeley Group)
Other key credits: St George
Executive summary from entrant: Silkstream is a nature-rich development in North London, set to achieve an ambitious biodiversity net gain score of 895%. With the creation of 1.4 acres of gardens, a 1.5 acre public park and 175 metre oxbow lake, plus the regeneration of a nearby waterway, Silkstream is significantly enhancing the natur...
AWARD FOR USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN PLANNING
Haringey Digital Infrastructure Delivery Plan
Coplug - developers of Sidm Systems Location analytics platform
Executive summary from entrant:
Haringey Council is pioneering a data-driven, digital-first approach to infrastructure planning to support its emerging Local Plan. Partnering with Coplug and PlanIn, the council commissioned the delivery of a cutting-edge Digital Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) powered by Sidm Systems, integrating data from multiple providers to cr...
Thurrock Planning Performance Dashboard
Submitting Organisation: Thurrock Council Planning Service
Executive summary from entrant:
Thurrock Council’s Planning Department has revolutionised service delivery through innovative use of digital technology, particularly its Power BI dashboard launched in August 2024. This cutting-edge tool integrates live data to monitor planning activities, enabling evidence-based decisions and proactive issue management. It has stream...
UHeat
Submitting Organisation: Arup
Executive summary from entrant:
To help developers, urban planners and city authorities bring down the temperature from the urban heat island effect (UHI) – Arup has developed UHeat. It is a new digital tool that uses a combination of satellite imagery and open-source climate data to analyse huge areas of cities. It is able to identify the particular buildings, struc...
PLANNING LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
Dentons UK and Middle East LLP Planning and Public Law Team
Submitting Organisation: Dentons UK and Middle East LLP Planning and Public Law Team
Executive summary from entrant:
Advising Network Rail on the Leeds to Micklefield section of the TransPennine Upgrade. The multi-billion-pound project electrifying and upgrading the route, aims at delivering faster, more frequent, and greener rail services between York, Leeds, and Manchester, required navigating and running in parallel series of consenting processes,...
Shortlist: Redevelopment of the last phase of the Springfield Hospital site
Submitting Organisation: Winckworth Sherwood
Executive summary from entrant:
Winckworth Sherwood submits its planning legal work on the redevelopment of the last phase of the Springfield Hospital site. The site represents an important opportunity to unlock significant housing delivery on a brownfield site, and deliver the final phase of the Springfield Hospital Masterplan in a way that respects that context, bu...
AWARD FOR PLANNING CONSULTANCY OF THE YEAR
Arcadis
Submitting Organisation: Arcadis Human Resources Ltd
Executive summary from entrant:
Arcadis is a global professional services company delivering sustainable design and consultancy solutions.. Our UK Planning team, now 30 +strong , has grown strategically by recruiting talented Chartered Town Planners from diverse backgrounds. Integrated within a wider Environmental Planning team our expertise spans policy, development...
Iceni Projects Limited
Submitting Organisation: Iceni Projects Limited
Executive summary from entrant:
As Iceni Projects celebrates our 20th birthday this year, we are proud to have kept the same tribal ethos, with the clear ‘Iceni way’ of doing things which our clients value while continuing to evolve with new, brave ways of thinking. We are multi-disciplinary and although planning is at our heart, we are much more than a planning cons...
AWARD FOR PLAN-MAKING
Barking and Dagenham Local Plan 2020-2037
Submitting Organisation: Be First
Other key credits: Barking and Dagenham Council, Be First Regeneration, LUC (Land Use Consultants), Transport for London, Network Rail, Barking Riverside Limited, NHS, Healthy Urban Development Unit, Greater London Authority
Executive summary from entrant: The Barking and Dagenham 2037 Local Plan seeks to unlock over 40,000 new homes and around 20,000 jobs along with supporting infrastructure such as new schools, health facilities, transport, and more green space. The Plan is transformative, uplifting one of the UK's poorest boroughs. It emphasises placema...
Chippenham Neighbourhood Plan
Submitting Organisation: Chippenham Town Council
Other key credits: Wiltshire Council, Andrea Pellegram Ltd., Ice House Design, AECOM, Pear Technology Services Ltd.
Executive summary from entrant: Over 5 years in the making, and with significant community input, the Chippenham Neighbourhood Plan pushes the boundaries of what is possible to achieve in plan-making for a large town using the neighbourhood planning process. Recognising the considerable development pressures facing the town, the Plan’s...
Lichfield District Design Code SPD
Submitting Organisation: BDP
Executive summary from entrant:
The Lichfield District Design Code SPD is one of the first district-wide Codes adopted in the country and sets a benchmark for the future preparation of Design Codes by all local authorities. The project has combined digital innovation, design expertise and local knowledge, supported by meaningful local and political engagement, to pro...
OPDC Public Realm and Green Infrastructure Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
Submitting Organisation: Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)
Other key credits: Publica and Temple
Executive summary from entrant: OPDC’s Public Realm and Green Infrastructure SPD exemplifies the delivery of high-quality, resilient, accessible and inclusive public spaces and greening, benefiting both people and nature. Using a typology-based approach for a range of streets and open spaces, the SPD identifies opportunities to deliver...
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan 2024
Submitting Organisation: Planning Policy Team, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Executive summary from entrant:
An updated Local Plan is crucial to ensure that our unique places can accommodate growth and meet community needs. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea prioritised adopting a new Local Plan following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Adopted in 2024 our Local Plan excels in place-shaping, ambitious planning policies, utilising digital...
The Chatham Centre developed by Medway Council
Submitting Organisation: BPTW LLP
Other key credits: Medway Council, The Chatham community, BPTW, Kent School of Architecture & Planning and Create Streets.
Executive summary from entrant: The Adopted Chatham Centre Design Code SPD received unanimous support from Medway Members and is a national exemplar that highlights the importance of genuine and inclusive community and stakeholder engagement in the creation of the design code. The code is already guiding the future development of the a...
The Greater Norwich Local Plan (adopted March 2024), developed by the Greater Norwich Development Partnership
Submitting Organisation: Greater Norwich Development Partnership
Other key credits: Broadland District Council, Norwich City Council, South Norfolk Council, supported by Norfolk County Council and the Broads Authority
Executive summary from entrant: Adopted in March 2024, the Greater Norwich Local Plan (GNLP) provides the Strategy and Sites Local Plan for Broadland, Norwich and South Norfolk. The plan was produced by the Greater Norwich Development Partnership (GNDP). The voluntary partnership has been working together for nearly two decades providi...
AWARD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING
Argyll and Kintyre 275kV Strategy
Submitting Organisation: SSEN Transmission
Executive summary from entrant:
The transmission network in Argyll and Kintyre was constructed over 60 years ago to carry electricity to rural consumers. As more renewables developers choose Argyll and Kintyre, SSEN Transmission is driving connections to the grid, supporting Scotland and the UK’s drive towards Net Zero. Through extensive stakeholder engagement, an...
Auchentiber Battery Energy Storage System
Submitting Organisation: AAH Planning Consultants
Other key credits: Apatura
Executive summary from entrant: AA Consultants secured consent for the largest standalone Battery Energy Storage System in Scotland for their client, Apatura. At 700 MW capacity, Auchentiber BESS will play a key role in enhancing UK grid security and grid stability and in supporting the transition to Net Zero. AAH consultants worked cl...
New University Hospital Monklands
Submitting Organisation: Keppie Design Ltd
Other key credits: NHS Lanarkshire, Currie & Brown
Executive summary from entrant: The Monklands Replacement Project is NHS Lanarkshire’s strategic vision to deliver a new acute hospital to replace the existing University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie.In addition to the high-quality and clinical-led design, it accommodates state-of-the-art technology and digital-based expertise. The pr...
Southwark Fire Station
Submitting Organisation: Rolfe Judd Planning
Other key credits: Hadston, Patel Taylor Associates, Collado Collins
Executive summary from entrant: The Southwark Fire Station redevelopment integrates critical infrastructure to deliver a 6-form entry secondary school, a sixth form, and 199 residential units, addressing local education and housing needs. This innovative scheme restores and repurposes historic Grade II listed buildings into vibrant com...
LOCAL AUTHORITY PLANNING TEAM OF THE YEAR
City of London Planning Team
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Executive summary from entrant:
The proactive, solution-focussed City of London Planning team have rapidly transformed the City into a vibrant 7-day destination, negotiating cultural and visitor attractions, radically re-pivoting the City's economy, substantially increasing weekend footfall whilst delivering an unprecedented pipeline of 1 million sqm of floorspace ac...
Planning Team at Portsmouth City Council
Submitting Organisation: Portsmouth City Council (PCC)
Executive summary from entrant:
The planners at Portsmouth City Council are planning the UK's only island City. We have turned around planning performance and delivered on the Local Plan at the same time as progressing two outstanding projects. Flooding is a major issue. Our new Coastal Defences defend our City, and our planners have made sure that they add value to ...
Tewkesbury Borough Council Development Management Team
Submitting Organisation: Tewkesbury Borough Council
Executive summary from entrant:
Over the past 3 years the Planning Service at Tewkesbury has embarked on a significant transformational journey. Our continuous improvement programme was developed following feedback and recommendations received from Planning Officer Enterprises following a review of the service. This application is to recognise the considerable improv...
PLANNING PERMISSION OF THE YEAR
55 Bishopsgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: The London Centre : Schroders ; Arney Fender Katsalidis ; DP9
Executive summary from entrant: This strategic, iconic City Cluster tower delivers much needed floorspace, accommodating City employment and economic growth projections, alongside a ground-floor transformation with a new public realm and pedestrian routes. The scheme includes The London Centre; an exhibition, education and convening fo...
Shortlist: 55 Old Broad Street
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Executive summary from entrant:
This strategic City scheme delivers substantial floor space for economic and employment growth with exceptional sustainability credentials and world class public transport connectivity. The scheme transforms the public realm delivering two new north-south pedestrian routes improving pedestrian connection between Liverpool Street Statio...
65 Fleet Street
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Executive summary from entrant:
This transformational retrofit scheme culturally reinvigorates Fleet Street as a 7-day and evening destination providing much needed student accommodation to help address a London wide shortfall. The scheme includes a new free to visit public archaeological exhibition focussed on the remains of the medieval Whitefriars monastery and a ...
A major new public garden in The Regent’s Park to commemorate the life of Queen Elizabeth II
Submitting Organisation: LUC in collaboration with The Royal Parks and HTA Design LLP
Executive summary from entrant:
On a one-hectare site currently occupied by disused glasshouses, out buildings and hardstanding the new garden will include promenades, beautiful planting, meadows, woodlands and a large water body. Exciting, accessible and welcoming, it will be a place for quiet reflection and a fitting commemoration of Queen Elizabeth II. Heritage co...
Englishcombe Lane, Bath
Submitting Organisation: Arcadis
Executive summary from entrant:
Described by the local planning authority as “exemplary” and observed by a member of the Bath & Northeast Somerset Council (B&NES) Planning Committee as bringing “immense” social value, Land North of Englishcombe Lane (Englishcombe Lane) is a landscape-led development providing 16 exceptional affordable homes designed in accordance wit...
New University Hospital Monklands
Keppie Design Ltd
Executive summary from entrant:
The Monklands Replacement Project is NHS Lanarkshire’s strategic vision to deliver a new acute hospital to replace the existing University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie. In addition to the high-quality and clinical-led design, it accommodates state-of-the-art technology and digital-based expertise. The project has a Net Zero Carbon amb...
The London Museum
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Executive summary from entrant:
The London museum is a transformative Word Class cultural destination of national significance. The scheme sensitively restores and retrofits a collection of iconic historic buildings which become the public canvas to celebrate the history and heritage of London and its diverse communities The scheme will be a transformative catalyst f...
AWARD FOR STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN PLANNING
182-202 Walworth Road
Submitting Organisation: Fabrix
Other key credits: Fabrix (Developer), Howells (Architect), Quod (Planning Consultant), Harris Bugg Studio (Landscape Designer), Elliot Wood (Structural Engineer)
Executive summary from entrant: 182-202 Walworth Road is the repurposing of a largely-derelict, 1980s office building into a sustainable, PBSA-led development, designed through deep local engagement. The 134,000sqft scheme demonstrates PBSA can meaningfully respond to the needs of local people and the environment - delivering student-b...
38-40 George Street, Oxford
Submitting Organisation: Marick Real Estate, Cavendish, Makespace Oxford, Oxford City Council, Staycity Group
Executive summary from entrant:
Marick Real Estate’s proposal with Oxford City Council to regenerate the former Odeon cinema on George Street in Oxford was approved in October 2024. Marick assembled a consortium with Staycity and Makespace Oxford. The project includes demolishing the existing building and creating a premium ‘Wilde’ Aparthotel by Staycity, along with ...
Carpenters Estate Masterplan
Submitting Organisation: Populo Living and make:good
Client: Populo Living and London Borough of Newham
Other key credits: Resident and Stakeholder Engagement Consultant: Make:Good; Architects and Masterplanners: Proctor & Matthews Architects and Metropolitan Workshop; Lead Consultant and Planning Consultant: Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design; Landscape Architects: LDA Design
Executive summary from entrant: The Carpenters Estate Masterplan, approved by the LLDC’s planning committee in February 2024, is one of London’s most ambitious estate regeneration and restoration schemes, led by Populo Living on behalf of the London Borough of Newham. A high-quality, resident-focused engagement process led by Make:Good...
Hartree
Submitting Organisation: TOWN
Other key credits: LandsecU+I, Anglian Water, Cambridge City Council
Executive summary from entrant: Hartree is a 48-hectare brownfield site that lies at the heart of a proposed new urban quarter in North East Cambridge. It will become home to a new kind of sustainable, inclusive community, driven by the five-minute neighbourhood concept of being able to access essential day-to-day services within a fiv...
Notting Dale Heat
Submitting Organisation: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Arup
Other key credits: Sustainability Co
Executive summary from entrant: Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and central government are working in partnership with residents to create a model social housing estate for the 21st century, where residents can live in comfort in the UK’s largest eco-neighbourhood. Central to this is the ...
Stakeholder consultation for the Earls Court masterplan
Submitting Organisation: The Earls Court Development Company and ZCD Architects
Executive summary from entrant:
The Earls Court Development Company is an Earls Court-based business, responsible for delivering the transformational masterplan on the site of the former Exhibition Centres on behalf of Earls Court Partnership Limited – a JV between Delancey (on behalf of its client funds), the Dutch fund manager APG, and TfL. ECDC’s vision is for Ear...
What is Planning?
Submitting Organisation: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth Council
Other key credits: Maddison Graphic
Executive summary from entrant: Richmond and Wandsworth’s planning team have been working to improve the way we communicate the importance of planning and design for our communities. The ‘What is planning?’ booklets, adapted for both boroughs, were illustrated by Maddison Graphic to break down jargon to provide a visually interesting a...
AWARD FOR PLANNING TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
A Development Framework for the Hagshaw Energy Cluster - Planning for Net Zero
Submitting Organisation: LUC
Other key credits: NatureScot, South Lanarkshire Council, East Ayrshire Council
Executive summary from entrant: The Development Framework for the Hagshaw Energy Cluster represents an innovative approach to renewable energy planning that addresses climate change through coordinated deployment of renewable energy. This pioneering framework, adopted as non-statutory guidance, creates an ambitious blueprint for managi...
Green Heritage Homes Project
Submitting Organisation: Bath and North East Somerset Council
Other key credits: Bath and West Community Energy (BWCE), Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Council, Bath Preservation Trust, Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE), People Powered Retrofit, and the South West Net Zero Hub
Executive summary from entrant: Green Heritage Homes is one of 36 Local Energy Advice Demonstrator projects to have been funded nationally by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. This initiative aims to test new and innovative approaches to providing in-person energy efficiency and clean heating advice to consumers at a loc...
One Cowcaddens
Submitting Organisation: Keppie Design Ltd
Other key credits: Davidson Kempner, Global Mutual, Woolgar Hunter, IN2
Executive summary from entrant: ‘One Cowcaddens’ is a mixed-use residential-led scheme which represents the deconstruction and subsequent redevelopment of the former Buchanan House offices within the Cowcaddens district of Glasgow city centre. Within the context of climate change and the retrofit landscape, this process respectfully ch...
Planning for Sustainability SPD
Submitting Organisation: City of London Corporation
Executive summary from entrant:
Sustainable development is not just the heart of the planning system – it is also at the top of the list for business occupiers and investors in commercial real estate in the Square Mile. Yet delivery has never been more complex, with multiple standards and accreditations, shifting carbon benchmarks, and the unique challenges and oppor...
The Earls Court Development Company
Submitting Organisation: The Earls Court Development Company
Executive summary from entrant:
The Earls Court Development Company (ECDC) is an Earls Court-based business, responsible for delivering the transformational c.44-acre masterplan on the site of the former Earls Court Exhibition Centres. This is on behalf of Earls Court Partnership Limited – a joint venture between Delancey (on behalf of its client funds), the Dutch pe...
The Planning Application Carbon Evaluation and Reduction (PACER) Platform
Submitting Organisation: Preoptima
Other key credits: Westminster City Council, Innovate UK
Executive summary from entrant: PACER (Planning Application Carbon Evaluation and Reduction) is an innovative digital platform developed by Preoptima in collaboration with Westminster City Council and funded by Innovate UK. Designed to empower Local Planning Authorities (LPAs), PACER automates the review of Whole Life Carbon Assessment...
NEW - AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR SENIOR LIVING
Daventy House, Westminster City Council
Submitting Organisation: Westminster City Council
Executive summary from entrant:
Daventry House is a landmark scheme by Westminster City Council comprising 60 social rent homes for older people within one of the UK’s most deprived wards. Located in central London, the new one-bedroom flats are in a mixed-use development and replace 44 poor quality bedsit studios nearby. All have a generous hallway, kitchen-diner-li...
Elstree Integrated Retirement Community, Thrive Living
Submitting Organisation: Thrive Living (part of Retirement Villages Group) and Stantec UK
Other key credits: Stantec UK, Coffey Architects, Keeble Brown
Executive summary from entrant: Thrive Living’s proposed integrated retirement community takes the health and wellbeing of older people and placemaking for Elstree as its main objectives. The planning consent granted by the council follows engagement between the parties through the plan-making process. In light of delays to the local p...
PLACEMAKING CATEGORIES
AWARD FOR BEST HOUSING SCHEME (FEWER THAN 500 HOMES)
1 & 2 MacFarlane Place, Television Centre
Submitting Organisation: MACCREANOR LAVINGTON
Client: Stanhope
Other key credits: Peabody (Housing Association)
Executive summary from entrant: Previously a car park for Television Centre, the MacFarlane Place site sits between Wood Lane bus Station and a London Underground viaduct. Across two buildings, the project provides 142 affordable-tenure homes along with two public spaces: the reinstated MacFarlane Place, and small square at the norther...
Englishcombe Lane, Bath
Submitting Organisation: Arcadis
Other key credits: Arcadis; Bath and Northeast Somerset Council, Engain (Environmental Gain Ltd.)
Executive summary from entrant: Described by the local planning authority as “exemplary” and observed by a member of B&NES Planning Committee as bringing “immense” social value, Land North of Englishcombe Lane is a landscape-led development providing 16 exceptional affordable homes designed the principles of “PAS 6463 – Design for the ...
Reading Riverworks
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Homes (Oxford and Chiltern)
Executive summary from entrant:
Reading Riverworks will transform a former office and parking site into a thriving, vibrant community that benefits both people and nature. The development will provide 209 much-needed market and affordable homes, alongside key improvements for pedestrians and cyclists, while enhancing the local natural environment. These proposals wil...
St Edward
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Homes (Central London) Ltd
Executive summary from entrant:
The North Street regeneration project in Guildford is a transformative mixed-use development revitalising a brownfield site vacant for 30 years. It will deliver 477 highly sustainable, all-electric homes, a medical centre, and significant public realm enhancements, including pedestrianization of part of the high street, three new publi...
Streatham Vale
Submitting Organisation: Rolfe Judd Planning
Other key credits: Hadley Property Group, Clarion Housing, Mae Architects, Spcehub
Executive summary from entrant: The Streatham Vale redevelopment will transform a retail warehouse into a residential-led, mixed-use scheme. The development will deliver 237 high-quality homes, including 35% affordable housing, in four buildings up to 14 storeys. It incorporates a mix of tenures, with social rent, shared ownership, and...
The Row (formerly Headrow House), The Headrow, Leeds – repurposing and improvement (through reinstatement of original detailing) of an obsolete Art Deco office building in Leeds city centre for a market leading co-living led mixed-use development.
Submitting Organisation: Watkin Jones Group PLC
Other key credits: Watkin Jones Group PLC/ Fresh – developer and operator. SWAP – scheme architects. Turley – planning consultant. Social – communications consultant.
Executive summary from entrant: The Row repurposes redundant offices for market-leading co-living and retail. It will house young professionals within social shared living, supporting innovation and financial sectors, contributing to Leeds ‘brain-gain’. It refurbishes an attractive Art-Deco building, reinstating original features, a 78...
AWARD FOR BEST HOUSING SCHEME (500 HOMES OR MORE)
Huntley Wharf, a mixed-use development delivered by Berkeley Homes (Oxford and Chiltern)
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Group
Other key credits: Berkeley Homes (Oxford and Chiltern), Reading Borough Council, L&Q, PRP Architects
Executive summary from entrant: Planning permission was received for Huntley Wharf in October 2018. Following this Berkeley entered into a partnership with L&Q to deliver 765 new high-quality homes.Works commenced in July 2019, with the first residents moving onto the site in April 2022 and fully completed in January 2025. The developm...
One Cowcaddens
Submitting Organisation: Keppie Design Ltd
Other key credits: Davidson Kempner, Global Mutual, Bidwells, New Practice
Executive summary from entrant: 'One Cowcaddens’ is a proposal for 595 new homes, amenities and community space, with new landscaped gardens and public realm, which represents a vision for a new compact, vibrant and sustainable mixed-use 20-minute district in Glasgow’s city centre. As a major new housing development, One Cowcadde...
Syon Lane
Submitting Organisation: St Edward
Executive summary from entrant:
St Edward has 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 acres of green spaces with...
Trillium
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Homes (Central London)
Executive summary from entrant:
Trillium is a landmark regeneration project set to deliver 556 new homes in Westminster. The former Paddington Green Police Station site at Edgware Road will include 39% affordable homes onsite once complete and an additional 11% provided at the Mayor of London’s strategic site in Barnet – achieving a total 50% affordable housing provi...
Woodgate
Submitting Organisation: Thakeham
Other key credits: Woodgate, Pease Pottage, West Sussex for Thakeham and Abri, with St Catherine’s Hospice and Plunkett UK.
Executive summary from entrant: In Pease Pottage, West Sussex, Thakeham is delivering Woodgate: a landmark 619-home development that epitomises quality housebuilding and planning excellence. Woodgate is one of the largest developments to gain planning permission in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Receiving widespre...
AWARD FOR PROMOTING ECONOMIC GROWTH
55 Bishopsgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: City of London : The London Centre : Schroders ; Arney Fender Katsalidis ; DP9
Executive summary from entrant: This strategic, iconic City Cluster tower delivers much needed floorspace, accommodating City employment and economic growth projections, alongside a ground-floor transformation with a new public realm and pedestrian routes. The scheme includes The London Centre; an exhibition, education and convening fo...
Bow Goods Yard
Submitting Organisation: Network Rail (Property)
Other key credits: Maccreanor Lavington Architects and Urbanists, Montagu Evans, UMC Architects, Architecture:00, East, WSP, make:good, Useful Projects, Currie and Brown.
Executive summary from entrant: Bow Goods Yard is the last parcel of land to be developed on the Olympic Park, protected for industrial use but neighbouring landmark stadiums. This development sets the ambition for Network Rail’s freight portfolio, delivering on an economic, social and environmental level. The existing rail freight ope...
Elizabeth Harbour redevelopment - St Helier Harbour Master Plan
Submitting Organisation: Broadway Malyan
Other key credits: Mott Macdonald, Waddington
Executive summary from entry: The St Helier Harbour Master Plan is a transformative regeneration project led by Ports of Jersey to modernise the island’s vital maritime hub. Covering approximately nine hectares, the plan addresses aging infrastructure, enhancing passenger and freight operations while fostering a vibrant cultural and to...
Milton Park Local Development Order (2024)
Submitting Organisation: Vale of White Horse District Council and MEPC
Other key credits: Oxfordshire County Council, Pro Vision (planning), Perkins & Will (masterplanning), Meeting Place (PR), Ensafe (air quality, noise and lighting), Ramboll (drainage and utilities), RPS (heritage), ASA Landscapes (landscape), Tyler Grange (biodiversity), VivaCity (AI traffic monitoring) and Systra (transport).
Executive summary from entrant: The Milton Park (2024) LDO is a new generation of simplified planning, showcasing public and private sector collaboration to foster economic growth whilst embracing sustainable design, biodiversity and green travel. Underpinned by the Vale of White Horse District Council and MEPC’s shared ambition for gr...
Planning delivering the City of London's Destination City Economic Growth Strategy
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Executive summary from entrant:
The City Planning team are key in delivering the City's radical Destination City Economic Growth Strategy which re-pivots the City's economy delivering a 7-day vibrant, culturally enriching, inclusive City for all. Through planning policy and permissions, the City Planning is transforming the City, delivering substantial new cultural a...
Walworth Town Hall
Submitting Organisation: Rolfe Judd Planning
Other key credits: General Projects, Feix & Merlin Architects
Executive summary from entrant: Walworth Town Hall is a sensitive redevelopment of two Grade II listed buildings, revitalising them into a vibrant hub for community, creative industries, and education. After significant fire damage in 2013, the project restores the heritage fabric while incorporating modern interventions to ensure long...
AWARD FOR BEST USE OF ARTS, CULTURE OR SPORT IN PLACEMAKING
55 Bishopsgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: The London Centre : Schroders ; Arney Fender Katsalidis ; DP9
Executive summary from entrant: This iconic tower will house the permanent home for the London Centre., a celebration of planning, urban design and architecture in London. The Centre will culturally enrich the area with a free to visit public exhibition centred around the spectacular London model, curated ever-changing displays, a lear...
Emerge East at Station Square
Submitting Organisation: Barking Riverside Limited
Executive summary from entrant:
Designed for civic life, Barking Riverside’s Station Square is an important piece of public realm that seeds meanwhile uses and creates place connection. Connecting Barking Riverside’s Overground Station with the pier and river frontage, the space is the setting for a variety of activations including Emerge East: a free festival celebr...
Herne Bay Sports Hub - Quinn Estates
Submitting Organisation: Quinn Estates
Executive summary from entrant:
Through the delivery of homes, jobs, green space and infrastructure, Quinn Estates consistently seeks to support the communities in which they develop by providing exceptional facilities, with a strong commitment to giving local people opportunities to thrive. Herne Bay Sports Hub is a 15-acre state-of-the-art facility created to prov...
Parsonage Place public art project
Submitting Organisation: Bellway
Other key credits: FrancisKnight, Aspect Landscape Planning
Executive summary from entrant: The creation of public art at Bellway’s Parsonage Place has had a transformative effect within the community of Otham in Kent. The beautiful artworks resulting from a two-year period of collaboration between artist Rob Turner and local people of all ages, including a community map, animal habitats, wayma...
The London Museum
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: The London Museum ; Stanton Williams : Gerald Eve
Executive summary from entrant: The London museum is a transformative world class cultural destination of national significance. The scheme sensitively restores and retrofits a collection of iconic historic buildings which become the public canvas to celebrate the history and heritage of London and its diverse communities The scheme ...
Wembley Park
Submitting Organisation: Quintain Ltd
Executive summary from entrant:
Quintain has embedded arts and culture deeply into its community creation at Wembley Park. Its cultural placemaking strategy has been pivotal in transforming the 85 acres around the National Stadium (Wembley Stadium) into a thriving cultural neighbourhood for North West London. The vibrant community is alive with art, music, dance, the...
AWARD FOR BEST USE OF HERITAGE IN PLACEMAKING
Bishopsgate Goodsyard
Submitting Organisation: The Joint Venture of Ballymore and Hammerson
Other key credits: Ballymore, Hammerson, FaulknerBrowns Architects, Chris Dyson Architects, Gensler, Eric Parry Architects, Buckley Gray Yeoman, Coffey Architects, HAL Architects, DP9, Hoare Lea, WSP and Temple.
Executive summary from entrant: Bishopsgate Goodsyard is one of today’s most exciting redevelopment sites. One of the last undeveloped sites of scale in the capital, it will lead the way in terms of place-making and holistic regeneration. Once delivered, it will bring back to life the 4.5-hectare derelict site in Shoreditch, a former g...
Rochdale Town Hall
Submitting Organisation: Gillespies
Client: Rochdale Borough Council Technical
Other key credits: Client-side project management: Rochdale Development Agency; Lead consultant and conservation architect: Donald Insall Associates; Landscape architect: Gillespies; Main contractor: H.H. Smith & Sons; Cost Manager: Frank Whittle Partnership; M&E Engineer: Max Fordham; Structural engineer: Price & Myers; Public realm civil engineers: Buro Happold; Public Realm Bespoke Glazed Benches: Broadbent Studios and Darwen Terracotta; Paving Artist: Vic Whitaker, known as Doodlher Exhibition design: Redman Design; Specialist conservation repairs: Hirst Conservation; Specialist cleaning and restoration: Lancashire Conservation Studios; Stained glass cleaning and repairs: The York Glaziers Trust
Executive summary from entrant: The Grade I-listed Rochdale Town Hall has been revived through a landmark heritage-led restoration, transforming it into an inspiring, accessible space for all. Led by Donald Insall Associates and Gillespies, the project has meticulously restored its breathtaking interiors and façade. Outside, the remova...
Southsea Coastal Scheme: Sub-frontage 1 (Long Curtain Moat) and Sub-frontage 4 (Southsea Castle)
Submitting Organisation: Southsea Coastal Scheme
Other key credits: Coastal Partners, Portsmouth City Council, Royal HaskoningDHV, VolkerStevin Boskalis Westminster, LDA Design, Wessex Archaeology, Pritchard Architecture.
Executive summary from entrant: The Southsea Coastal Scheme is the largest local authority-led costal defence scheme in the UK. It seeks to protect key infrastructure, >10,000 homes and >700 businesses, 74 listed structures and 3 Scheduled Monuments. Through collaborative working, innovative design and bespoke materials, the scheme not...
The London Museum
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: The London Museum ; Stanton Williams : Gerald Eve
Executive summary from entrant: The London Museum is a once in a lifetime heritage scheme of UK and global significance creating an inclusive and captivating World Class Museum telling the story of London and Londoners in a unique sensitively restored heritage context. A socially inclusive ethos defines the scheme with education for ch...
Walworth Town Hall
Submitting Organisation: Rolfe Judd Planning
Other key credits: General Projects, Feix & Merlin Architects
Executive summary from entrant: The restoration of the Grade II-listed Walworth Town Hall and Newington Library transforms these fire-damaged landmarks into a vibrant community, cultural, and employment hub. The new scheme preserves key architectural features while introducing modern amenities to support local entrepreneurs, creative i...
Walworth Town Hall
Submitting Organisation: Southwark
Other key credits: General Projects; Feix & Merlin Architects; Conamar
Executive summary from entrant: The Walworth Town Hall has stood derelict since it was ravaged by fire in 2013. This large-scale conservation/restoration project has reintegrated this former Town Hall in the wider Walworth and Elephant and Castle areas. The designers Feix & Merlin have conserved and enhanced building’s great heritage d...
AWARD FOR PARTNERSHIP WORKING
Shortlist: Eastern City Public Realm Vision
Submitting Organisation: Eastern City Business Improvement District (BID)
Other key credits: Publica, Norman Rourke Pryme (NRP), Donald Insall Associates, Christina Norton
Executive summary from entrant: The Public Realm Vision for the Eastern City sets out a shared vision for the future of the area’s public spaces, and an approach to delivery based on collaboration and partnership between the public and private sectors. This Vision has been developed with and aligns a diverse set of priorities from a ra...
Hemel Garden Communities, Creation of our Framework Plan
Submitting Organisation: Hemel Garden Communities
Other key credits: David Lock Associates, Hemel Garden Communities (a partnership between St Albans City & District Council, Dacorum Borough Council and Hertfordshire County Council) and strategic landowners
Executive summary from entrant: The Hemel Garden Communities team (HGC), alongside David Lock Associates has undertaken the task of transforming the existing new town of Hemel Hempstead, while creating a flexible framework for delivery of 11,000 new homes and 10,000 new jobs by 2050, northwards and eastwards of the town. The vision for...
Lombard Square
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Capital
Other key credits: Royal Borough of Greenwich, Peabody, Homes England, the Greater London Authority, and Berkeley
Executive summary from entrant: 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, commerc...
Reading Riverworks
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Homes (Oxford and Chiltern)
Other key credits: Berkeley Homes (Oxford and Chiltern), Berkeley Group, Homes England, Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing
Executive summary from entrant: Berkeley Homes have partnered with Reading Borough Council, Homes England, and Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) to transform a former office on the River Thames into a thriving, vibrant community that benefits the public and the environment. The development will deliver 209 much-needed homes, al...
South Kesteven Design PAD
Submitting Organisation: South Kesteven District Council
Other key credits: Lincolnshire County Council
Executive summary from entrant: Design PAD at South Kesteven District Council is an exemplar design review service, strengthened by an effective learning and working partnership with Lincolnshire County Council. Design PAD has been successful in bringing a wide range of disciplines together, providing a more efficient planning service ...
Spacehive
Submitting Organisation: Spacehive
Executive summary from entrant:
The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham has partnered with community engagement and fundraising platform Spacehive to pioneer an innovative approach to placemaking and locally-led development. This collaboration empowers residents to lead transformative projects that create vibrant public spaces, enhance environmental quality and br...
AWARD FOR REGENERATION
Shortlist: Alton Renewal Plan, Wandsworth Council
Submitting Organisation: Wandsworth Council & Inner Circle Consulting
Executive summary from entrant:
The Alton Renewal Plan is a new undertaking that aims to tackle the challenges of the Alton Estate and finally deliver on decades of unmet promises. The plan, which achieved unanimous support from Wandsworth Council’s Housing Committee in July 2024, champions an innovative way of working in estate renewal. Through a relentless focus on...
Carpenters Estate Masterplan
Submitting Organisation: Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design
Client: Populo Living and London Borough of Newham
Other key credits: Lead Consultant and Planning Consultant: Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, Architects and Masterplanners: Proctor & Matthews Architects and Metropolitan Workshop, Landscape Architects: LDA Design, Environmental/Sustainability Consultant: XCO2, M&E: XCO2, EIA consultant: Campbell Reith, Structural and Civil Engineers: Campbell Reith, Transport Consultant: Campbell Reith, Project Manager/ Cost Consultant: Mott Macdonald, Resident Engagement Consultant: make:good, Community Wealth Building: PRD, Inclusive Design/Access Consultant: earnscliffe, Waste Consultant: Velocity, Fire Consultant: Introba (Elementa), Viability Consultant: JLL
Executive summary from entrant: Carpenters Estate Masterplan is one of London’s largest and most ambitious estate regeneration schemes. The Estate is located next to Stratford Station and Stratford Town Centre in the London Borough of Newham, and on the fringe of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This is a resident-led masterplan for u...
Farnworth Green
Submitting Organisation: BDP
Other key credits: Capital & Centric, Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Executive summary from entrant: This mixed-use scheme features residential, cultural, retail and community facilities, together with a public square for socialising, events and al fresco eats. The scheme prioritises sustainability and inclusivity. Homes are designed to be affordable and accessible, fostering an intergenerational commun...
Oxpens Masterplan
Submitting Organisation: Hawkins\Brown
Other key credits: Developer: Oxford West End Developments (OxWED) Landscape: Gillespies Project manager: G&T Planning: Prior and Partners Civil engineering: AKS Ward Agency: Bidwells, JLL Transport: Glanville
Executive summary from entrant: Oxpens is a strategically located site in Oxford, poised for significant redevelopment. The long-neglected former industrial area is transforming into a vibrant mixed-use community, with residential units, commercial spaces, community facilities, and public amenities, including an outdoor amphitheatre fo...
Smithfield Birmingham
Submitting Organisation: Prior + Partners
Other key credits: Lendlease Smithfield Development LLP and Birmingham City Council, Field Operations, DP9, WSP, Ramboll
Executive summary from entrant: Home to the former wholesale markets, Smithfield Birmingham occupies an area known for its rich trading history. The regeneration of this predominantly vacant site will celebrate its significant history and create a new urban quarter that expands the city centre, unlocking economic and social opportuniti...
AWARD FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE
55 Bishopsgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: Arney Fender Katsalidis ; Schroders ; DP9 ; The London Centre
Executive summary from entrant: 55 Bishopsgate is an outstanding exemplar of holistic Design Excellence. Architecturally unique and elegant and an appropriate response to its context and heritage. The scheme’s design responds to its users’ requirements and is informed by sustainability and minimizing whole life carbon. The scheme is an...
Begbroke Innovation District
Submitting Organisation: Hawkins\Brown
Other key credits: Landscape architect: OKRA (Netherlands) Collaborating architect: RCKa Collaborating designer: Ooze (Netherlands) Place vision: Murray Twohig Planning consultant: Quod Community engagement: Kevin Murray Associates Strategic transport: KMC Sustainability, transport, civils, utilities: Buro Happold
Executive summary from entrant: North of Oxford, surrounding and including the Begbroke Science Park, we have planned a contemporary village that deliberately combines homes and employment space, local residents and university researchers. The concept is without global precedent as a new-build proposition in a ‘peri-urban’ location. Be...
One Cowcaddens
Submitting Organisation: Keppie Design Ltd
Other key credits: Davidson Kempner, Global Mutual, OOBE
Executive summary from entrant: ‘One Cowcaddens’ is a proposal for 595 new homes, amenities and community space, with new landscaped gardens an...
The Gradel Quadrangles
Submitting Organisation: Bidwells
Other key credits: David Kohn Architects, New College, Oxford, Marcus Beale Associates, Oxford City Council, Historic England
Executive summary from entrant: The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford, is a £75 million landmark project that seamlessly integrates contemporary design with the city’s historic fabric. It introduces Oxford’s first freestanding tower since the 1930s, enhancing the skyline while reinterpreting the traditional quadrangle with Oxfo...
AWARD FOR FOSTERING A HEALTHY TOWN CENTRE
Ffos Caerffili Market
Submitting Organisation: Stride Treglown
Other key credits: Stride Treglown (architecture, urban planning, planning and landscape), Lancer Scott (Contractor), Arup (Mechanical and Structural Engineering)
Executive summary from entrant: Spearheading Caerphilly town’s 2035 regeneration masterplan, Ffos Caerffili creates a new home for small businesses to grow in a destination locals can be proud of. Twenty-eight shipping container retail units, fifteen outdoor market stalls, seven bars and restaurants, and a live outdoor music and events...
North Street, Guildford
Submitting Organisation: St Edward
Other key credits: JTP
Executive summary from entrant: The North Street regeneration project in Guildford is a transformative mixed-use development revitalising a brownfield site vacant for 30 years. It will deliver 477 highly sustainable, all-electric homes, a medical centre, and significant public realm enhancements, including pedestrianization of part of ...
Putting the Public on Top ; A View For All ; Free to visit elevated public spaces in the City of London
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Executive summary from entrant:
The City has radically re-invented public realm as a three-dimensional concept. The delivery of free to visit public roof gardens, terraces, sky gardens and viewing galleries has been an internationally groundbreaking, award-winning initiative. These public spaces ensure all communities have the best views and inverting the hierarchy w...
The Chatham Centre developed by Medway Council
Submitting Organisation: BPTW LLP
Other key credits: Medway Council, The Chatham community, BPTW, Kent School of Architecture & Planning and Create Streets.
Executive summary from entrant: The Adopted Chatham Centre Design Code SPD received unanimous support from Medway Members and is a national exemplar that will seek to reverse the local health inequalities. It lays the ground work to ensure Chatham becomes a healthier happier and thriving City and highlights the importance of genuine an...
AWARD FOR MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
182-202 Walworth Road
Submitting Organisation: Fabrix
Other key credits: Fabrix (Developer), Howells (Architect), Quod (Planning Consultant), Harris Bugg Studio (Landscape Designer), Elliot Wood (Structural Engineer)
Executive summary from entrant: 182-202 Walworth Road is the repurposing of a largely-derelict, 1980s office building into a sustainable, mixed-use, PBSA-led development, with community at its heart. The 134,000sqft scheme delivers 283 student beds and 35% on-site social-rent homes, alongside a rich mix of uses, centred on community, f...
55 Bishopsgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: The London Centre : Schroders ; Arney Fender Katsalidis ; DP9
Executive summary from entrant: This strategic, iconic City Cluster tower delivers much needed floorspace, accommodating City employment growth projections, alongside a ground-floor transformation with a new public realm and pedestrian routes. The scheme includes The London Centre; an exhibition, education and convening focal point cel...
55 Old Broad Street
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: Land Securities ; Fletcher Priest : DP9
Executive summary from entrant: This strategic City scheme delivers substantial floor space for economic and employment growth with exceptional sustainability credentials and world class public transport connectivity. The scheme transforms the public realm delivering two new north-south pedestrian routes improving pedestrian connectio...
65 Fleet Street
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Other key credits: Dominus
Executive summary from entrant: This transformational scheme culturally reinvigorates Fleet Street as a 7-day and evening destination providing much needed student accommodation to help address a London wide shortfall. The scheme includes a new free to visit public archaeological exhibition focussed on the remains of the medieval White...
Bishopsgate Goodsyard
Submitting Organisation: The Joint Venture of Ballymore and Hammerson
Other key credits: Ballymore, Hammerson, FaulknerBrowns Architects, Chris Dyson Architects, Gensler, Eric Parry Architects, Buckley Gray Yeoman, Coffey Architects, HAL Architects, Spacehub, DP9, WSP, Hoare Lea and Temple.
Executive summary from entrant: Bishopsgate Goodsyard is one of London’s most exciting redevelopment sites. One of the last undeveloped sites of scale in the capital, it will lead the way in terms of placemaking and holistic regeneration.Once delivered, it will bring back to life the 4.5-hectare derelict site in Shoreditch, a former go...
BEST USE OF PUBLICLY-OWNED LAND AND/OR PROPERTY IN PLACEMAKING
Bow Goods Yard
Submitting Organisation: Network Rail (Property)
Other key credits: Maccreanor Lavington Architects and Urbanists, Montagu Evans, UMC Architects, Architecture:00, East, WSP, make:good, Useful Projects, Currie and Brown.
Executive summary from entrant: This is the last parcel of land to be developed on the Olympic Park, protected for industrial use but neighbouring landmark stadiums. It sets the ambition for Network Rail’s freight portfolio, delivering on an economic, social and environmental level. The existing rail freight operations - vital to Londo...
Plaistow Hub
Submitting Organisation: Populo Living and Vistry Group
Other key credits: Populo Living for London Borough of Newham, Vistry Group, Pitman Tozer Architects, DP9, Tullys
Executive summary from entrant: Plaistow Hub by Populo Living, Newham’s housing development company, transformed two underutilised sites into a vibrant, community-oriented development. In collaboration with regeneration specialist Vistry Group, planners DP9 and architects Pitman Tozer, the scheme delivers 182 high-quality private Build...
Springfield Village, part of the South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust’s Better Communities and Better Environments Programmes
Submitting Organisation: South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and Cascade
Other key credits: South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, Cascade, Montagu Evans, Springfield and Tolworth Estate Partnership (STEP - a joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine Capital Ventures and Kajima Partnerships), Barratt London, London Square, City & Country, Bellway and Sir Robert McAlpine Limited (Construction)
Executive summary from entrant: Led by South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, Springfield Village is part of a wider transformative project, the Better Environments Programme. The masterplan has replaced outdated facilities with state-of-the-art facilities, in turn improving inpatient and outpatient services, with t...
BEST USE OF BROWNFIELD LAND IN PLACEMAKING
Bath Gasworks, a development by St William Homes, part of the Berkeley Group
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Group
Other key credits: Berkeley Group, Bath and North East Somerset Council, Homes England
Executive summary from entrant: After years of disuse, this former national grid site will be transformed into a new part of the wider Bath Riverside community, with 611 much needed new homes set amongst a network of public spaces that will reconnect this industrial site with its surroundings. Bath delivers real benefits for the local ...
Grand Union
Submitting Organisation: St George, a proud member of the Berkeley Group
Other key credits: St George, Grand Union, Berkeley Group
Executive summary from entrant: Grand Union in Alperton showcases the transformative potential of brownfield regeneration. Once a derelict 22-acre industrial estate with abandoned and deteriorating warehouses and inaccessible land, it is being revitalised by St George, part of the Berkeley Group, into a vibrant Canalside neighbourhood....
Poplar Riverside
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley Capital
Executive summary from entrant:
Poplar Riverside is a former vacant brownfield gasworks site in Tower Hamlets, now on its way to be transformed into a community of 2,900 homes and a range of amenities including a 2.5-acre Riverside Park and a community hub. The repurposing of this land not only addresses the desperate need for housing, especially affordable homes, bu...