Planning Shortlist 2020
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Debenham Neighbourhood Plan
Debenham Parish Council
Our Plan has brought the village together to plan for the future. Throughout the extensive consultation and engagement process the common theme motiva...
Drummond Street Neighbourhood Vision
Euston Town and Jan Kattein Architects
A neighbourhood vision for Drummond Street and the surrounding area, which sets out an ambitious but viable plan for not just the survival, bu...
Enfield's New Local Plan and Heritage Strategy
London Borough of Enfield
Enfield is preparing for transformational growth through its new Local Plan. A conscious decision to embrace growth is uniquely linked to a new Herita...
Mayfield Partnership
U+I
After 30 years of decline, it was crucial to the Mayfield Partnership to create an ambitious, future-proofed and above all people-centric visi...
MK2050 Milton Keynes Strategic Growth Study (August 2019)
David Lock Associates / Milton Keynes Council
At a time when strategic planning is not supported by the statutory planning system, we feel the Growth Study process is something that other plan...
New Cross Area Framework
5th Studio with We Made That and Alan Baxter
The New Cross Area Framework sets out an aspirational and practical vision to maximise the benefit of infrastructure investment, through co-ordina...
Bakerloo Line Extension
Lewisham and Southwark Councils
Coordinated planning for the new homes, jobs and regeneration that the Bakerloo Line Extension will bring to the growth corridor, and using th...
Deephams Sewage Treatment Works Upgrade
Adams Hendry Consulting Ltd
The £250m Deephams STW Upgrade has fully upgraded London's 4th largest STW through a programme delivered by collaborative planning, desi...
Energy planning for Wembley Park
Quintain
Securing planning permission for the use and location of the underground Envac waste system and site wide energy centre has unlocked the environmental...
Footbridge to Telford Central Railway Station, Telford
apT – Development Consultancy part of Telford & Wrekin Council
The completed, high profile development enhances the appearance and user experience of a key arrival point into Telford Town Centre ‘acting ...
Local Infrastructure Initiatives Programme
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The Tower Hamlets Infrastructure Planning Team are trailblazers of our field, planning one of the largest quantums of infrastructure seen by Local...
City Living Preston (CLP)
Preston City Council (PCC) and Hive Land & Planning (Hive)
Submission summary: In 2009/10 a net total of five additional dwellings were delivered across Preston. In 2018/19 over 900 additional dwellings were c...
Clongriffin Project
Downey Planning
Submission summary: This project is deserving of an award as increased housing delivery is at the very heart of this project and its success is t...
Energy planning for Wembley Park
Quintain
Submission summary: The continued implementation of the Wembley Park planning permission and subsequent RMAs has helped to deliver the UK’s...
Whitehill & Bordon new housing delivery
Whitehill & Bordon Regeneration Team, East Hampshire District Council
Submission summary: EHDC has accelerated housing delivery in the former Army town of Whitehill & Bordon by developing planning policies and s...
Bedford Passage - Middlesex Hospital Annex
Temple Group and Llewelyn Davies on behalf of UCLHC
This is a unique and viable approach to regeneration and affordable housing and ensures the site - with an important social history - will flourish to...
Drovers Place
Chorus Homes, part of Places for People
Submission summary: Working in partnership with the local planning authority and Homes England, Chorus Homes has transformed a dormant site&#...
Heathside & Lethbridge Estates Redevelopment
Avison Young
Avison Young has provided planning consultancy services for over a decade on behalf of the Peabody Group in relation to the redevelopment of the Heath...
Local authority-led affordable housing in Islington
HTA Design LLP and London Borough of Islington
HTA Planning has gained planning permission for nearly 1,000 homes across 25 challenging sites since 2009. Islington is a dense Borough with limit...
Sheerwater Canalside Regeneration
HTA Design LLP and Thameswey Group
The redevelopment of Sheerwater through this new scheme is an exemplar example of how listening to feedback from existing residents of a place can hel...
Upper Achintore Housing Development
Stantec
Submission summary: Upper Achintore delivers sustainable, high-quality low-carbon affordable housing that responds to strong demand throughou...
Area Statements
Natural Resources Wales
Submission summary: An Area Statement is an online resource which provides a summary of the Natural Resources priorities, risks and opportuni...
Caithness-Moray HVDC electricity transmission link.
SSEN Transmission
Submission summary: Completed in January 2019, the success of this co-ordinated approach to biodiversity enhancement has driven our Business ...
Earth Trust River of Life II
Carter Jonas
Submission summary: A decline in biodiversity and in the ability of our environments to support life can be reversed by better planning and the i...
Shropshire Landscape and Visual Sensitivity Assessment
Gillespies
Submission summary: By using a systemic and transparent framework to identify those areas which can potentially accommodate development without a...
Tree Preservation Order project review
London Borough of Southwark
Submission summary: Between 2018 and 2019, Southwark Council undertook a wholesale review and Capital Asset Valuation (CAVAT) of its protecte...
Garnett Wharfe
Barratt and David Wilson Homes Yorkshire West
Submission summary: Garnett Wharfe is a unique, attractive carbon-neutral mixed-use development comprising of houses, flats, a retire...
Havant Town Centre Masterplan
Havant Borough Council
Submission summary: On one level the video is very a complete and succinct masterplan and vision for Havant town centre that can either form part...
The Autarkic House
Rural Solutions
Submission summary: The ambition of this project supersedes what many try to achieve with the development of a single residential dwelling. Not o...
Tide/Vision Modular Off Site Construction
HTA Design
Submission summary: HTA Planning, with modular construction expert Tide Construction, have been in the forefront of a new form of constru...
Wind Microclimate Guidelines
City of London / RWDI
Submission summary: The Guidelines is a proactive initiative which places planning at the forefront of delivering real change delivering better e...
Addleshaw Goddard
Submission summary: AG have had a fantastic year representing clients in the High Court and Court of Appeal, influencing the Scottish Planning Bil...
Battersea Power Station
Town Legal
Submission summary: Town Legal lawyers have been advising Battersea Power Station for some 12 years. We are very proud to have worked on such a high p...
Luton Town; Power Court and Newlands Park mixed use developments
Pinsent Masons
Submission summary: Each project is a remarkable development in its own right, with Newlands being one of the largest out of town mixed-use develo...
Planning and Infrastructure Team
Womble Bond Dickinson
Submission summary: Our work has involved highly complex and specialist litigation, which has led the establishment of important princip...
Waterbeach
Dentons and Mills & Reeve
Submission summary: The Dentons and Mills & Reeve legal teams demonstrated creative and collaborative work in drafting, negotiating and settli...
Winckworth Sherwood’s planning team for helping make the UK’s biggest regeneration schemes happen
Winckworth Sherwood (WS)
Submission summary: Winckworth Sherwood’s work truly reflects that iconic, transformational regeneration schemes cannot be delivered without...
Avison Young
Submission summary: Our Planning team includes over 130 professionals across the country, and scale of our team and the breadth and complexit...
Iceni Projects
Submission summary: Iceni Projects is a multi-skilled consultancy which likes to do things differently. As a planning consultancy we are fortunate to ...
Inner Circle Consulting
Submission summary: We work with towns and city leaders delivering social and economic growth. The work we do provides an organisational mandate and r...
LUC Planning Consultancy
LUC
Submission summary: Since our foundation in 1966 LUC has provided a unique blend of planning and design services to a wide range of public, p...
Tetlow King Planning
Submission summary: TKP is dedicated to the provision of the highest quality consultancy work nationwide for our clients, producing outstandi...
Borough Council of Wellingborough Planning Team
Submission summary: The new planning team as “ambassadors for high quality growth” have shown the importance of being efficient and e...
London Borough of Redbridge Planning, Development Management and Technical Team
Submission summary: Redbridge’s development management and technical team have willingly undergone a transformation involving difficult question...
Former Ebrington School Site
Radius Housing
Submission summary: Phase 1 of the redevelopment of the former Ebrington school site located in the Waterside area of Derry/Londonderry will provide 4...
Leven Road Gasworks, Poplar
St William
Submission summary: London Borough of Tower Hamlets: “This development is an example of how proactive partnership working between the planning a...
Oak Cancer Centre (OCC), The Royal Marsden Hospital
Lambert Smith Hampton
Submission summary: The OCC will increase the Royal Marsden Hospital’s capacity for research and create an environment to enable the development...
Redevelopment of Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield, South Cambridgeshire
Urban&Civic, South Cambridgeshire District Council and Defence Infrastructure Organisation
Submission summary: The outline planning permission for Waterbeach, the largest consent to be granted in 2019, will create a new strategic and...
SweetTree Fields Farm
Planning Potential
Submission summary: We secured a retrospective change of use from an agricultural use to care farming (sui generis) – following an earlier refus...
Civic Campus, Hammersmith
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, A2 Dominion, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Submission summary: High-quality ‘ruthlessly inclusive’ Civic Campus at the heart of the community with access for all. Stakeholde...
New Cambridge Mosque
Bidwells
Submission summary: From inception, the client decided that public engagement would be at the heart of the project for this community buildin...
The People’s Project
Influential (on behalf of CBRE and Everton FC)
Submission summary: The People’s Project is one of the largest public consultations ever undertaken in the UK. Influential, Everton Foo...
Trewint Street Planning Application
The Collective and Cascade Communications
Submission summary: Cascade was appointed to deliver a programme of public consultation in support of a planning application for The Collective&r...
A Diverse Planning Team serving a Diverse Borough
LB Barnet / Regional Enterprise Ltd
The LB of Barnet Planning Service has been run by Regional Enterprise Ltd (Re), a 10-year joint venture between the LB Barnet and Capita. The Plan...
HTA Design Planning Team
HTA Design LLP
Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is at the heart of HTA Design’s ethos. This manifests in a demonstrably diverse team, showing we n...
“LCR Listens: Our Places” Liverpool City Region Spatial Development Strategy - Non-Statutory Engagement
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Submission summary: This is a spatial planning engagement (not consultation) attempting to increase awareness and ownership of strategic spatial ...
Croydon Urban Room
Spatial Planning Service, London Borough of Croydon
Submission summary: The project is pioneering a new form of transparent civic engagement in an edge condition of a growing city; it aims to de-in...
East Hampshire District Council Large Development Sites Consultation Local Plan 2017-2036
East Hampshire District Council's Planning Policy Team
Submission summary: Local Plan consultations can be a tick box exercise – a process to get through to get a new Local Plan. With a complete...
Ford Airfield
Barton Willmore, Wates Developments & Redrow Homes
Submission summary: Ford is a community-led scheme that has been openly communicated with a range of stakeholders on an ongoing basis, with t...
Romford Town Centre Masterplan Engagement
MAKE:GOOD for Havering Council
Submission summary: A new Romford Town Centre Masterplan needed excellent reach, engagement and understanding; as a Supplementary Planning Do...South of Romsey Town Centre (SoRTC) draft masterplan
Test Valley Borough Council in collaboration with Romsey Future Partnership
Submission summary: This submission demonstrates the communities’ important leading role in the creation of a masterplan for the redevelopm...Placemaking categories
Catford Mews
Really Local Group
Catford Mews has helped regenerate Catford’s high-street by having the local community’s best interests at its core. Welcoming locals of a...
Harlesden Place-Making Framework
Brent Council, HawkinsBrown, Jan Kattein Architects
The Harlesden Framework represents an effective approach to tackling declining high streets; combining robust data analysis, historical research a...
Salisbury Central Area Framework
Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design and Wiltshire Council
The Salisbury Central Area Framework focuses on raising the city’s profile as an investment opportunity and guide the future development. It off...
The Guildhall Quarter
Clague Architects
We believe that the Guildhall Quarter presents a scheme which is worthy of this award. The planning approved proposal looks to revive a healthy high s...
Wakefield Future High Street (Fund) September 2019 – March 2020
Arcadis + Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (WMDC)
Wakefield’s FHSF story is based around decisive structural intervention. This work is at pre-planning stage, aimed at redefining Wakefield&r...
Walthamstow High Street initiatives
London Borough of Waltham Forest
The interventions on Walthamstow’s eclectic High Street have fostered local relationships and nurtured a supportive environment where businesses...
Estate Management Scheme Design Guide
Place Services
Given the drive for Garden Communities throughout the United Kingdom it is recognised that the Estate Management Design Guide is an important tool in ...
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Centre Buildings Redevelopment
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Turley
The CBG is a planning achievement which transforms the both the School and the local area – Spacious, vivacious and artistic - the CBG has a...
Quayside Quarter (former Honey Monster factory site)
Knight Frank on behalf of Galliard Homes
Quayside Quarter deserves to win the design excellence award for sensitively delivering a unique proposition which nods to the sites industrial, a...
SKYHouse New Build and Conversion - Oughtibridge Mill
CODA Planning Ltd
The work related to the development of a design approach which translated well onto this brownfield site, complementing both the existing and rema...
Southmead Hospital Redevelopment Project
BDP
The Southmead Hospital Redevelopment Project delivers a world class 21st century healthcare facility for the people of Bristol and creates a regional ...
The H B Allen Centre
MICA Architects
The H B Allen Centre brings together the worlds of academia and technology in the same space for the first time. This is a unique collaboration betwee...
Frankum Mews
Costorphine + Wright Architects and Collective Planning (on behalf of Frankum Mews Development Ltd)
The scheme was developed in close consultation with the Local Authority via Pre-application and Quality Review Panel consultations. On awarding planni...
Hayfield Green - the redevelopment of former RAF Stanton Harcourt
Hayfield
Submission summary: This entry is for the positive negotiation of a residential-led full planning consent (18/01611/FUL) from West Oxfordshire Di...
Mannamead Housing Development
Pillar Land Securities/Rentplus
The Rentplus model from the Mannamead development has resulted in changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), and is widely acclaime...
Rathgill Bangor
Radius Housing
Radius Housings award winning Fort Green development located at Rathgill Bangor, County Down provides a total of 199 new homes and represents an i...
The Old Mansion House Site, North Stoneham Park
HGP Architects Limited
Old Mansion Site has been designed with lifestyle in mind, creating homes with a sense of belonging and community, where residents can remain ...
Victory Plaza
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Victory Plaza creates more, flexible living space for Londoners, in buildings that create a strong sense of place for local residents next to ...
Fulham Gasworks
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, St William and Apt Architects
There have been longstanding aspirations to develop this derelict site. A large site with important heritage features that need to be respected and re...
Prince Phillip Barracks, Whitehill and Bordon
Whitehill & Borden Regeneration Company, Taylor Wimpey Ltd
A truly sustainable development, optimising the redevelopment potential of the former Garrison. The placemaking and masterplan approach is ...
Southernwood - Old Kent Road
Pilbrow & Partners
London Borough of Southwark has approved our plans for a mixed-use regeneration scheme on Old Kent Road. The proposal comprises 724 residential units ...
Ambitions for the North – A spatial framework for people and places in the North of England
Stantec
Submission summary: ‘Ambitions for the North’ contains a set of shared ambitions which can promote co-operation across the North and ...
Camden Collective
Camden Town Unlimited
Submission summary: Camden Collectives beneficiaries are truly reflective of the community it serves and has transitioned to become a self-suffic...
Heart of London Placeshaping Strategy
Publica
Submission summary: The strategy addresses the public realm of a major part of London’s West End, from Green Park to Covent Garden,...
Inclusive Growth Strategy (IGS) 2019-2040
Brent Council
Submission summary: Brent is a borough of contrasts: wealth and economic success sitting alongside disadvantage and poverty. Growth requires new ...
Wokingham Town Centre Regeneration
Wokingham Borough Council
Submission summary: Wokingham regeneration is an excellent example of a local authority committed to supporting local economic growth by providin...
Broadacres
Berkeley Homes
At Broadacres, Berkeley Homes has created 18.72 acres of new sporting facilities for the whole community, including a skateboard park, mul...
Chatham Placemaking Project
FrancisKnight
Regenerating a pedestrian journey from Chatham station to the town centre previously eroded over a 20-year period. A collaboration between artists and...
EMD Walthamstow
Pilbrow & Partners
Pilbrow & Partners’ proposals restore the historic Hoe Street cinema to a live performance venue with a focus on comedy and community. The p...
Illuminated River
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands / Illuminated River Foundation
This collaboration between New York artist, Leo Villareal and architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands combines art and architecture in subtly seq...
Wembley Park
Quintain
Quintain is committed to making Wembley Park a place that is welcomed by London as a major new addition to its urban realm in Brent, its most cult...
Alconbury Weald - Key Phase 1 including the Watch Tower refurbishment
Urban&Civic PLC
Alconbury Weald sets a bar for a vision which puts heritage at the heart of reclaiming a brownfield site for 21st Century sustainable living. Phase 1 ...
Hayfield Green - the redevelopment of former RAF Stanton Harcourt
Hayfield
This entry is for the positive negotiation of a residential-led full planning consent (18/01611/FUL) from West Oxfordshire District Council on 22nd Ja...
Plumstead Library and Sports Centre
BPTW
Our work as planning consultant on the refurbishment and redevelopment of the historic Plumstead Library showcases how community assets can be brought...
Reading Abbey Quarter
Reading Borough Council
The creation of the Abbey Quarter is Reading’s most ambitious heritage project for a decade – transforming the precinct of Reading’s...
Royal Arsenal Riverside
Berkeley Homes
A deprived and isolated brownfield site in Woolwich, with a rich military history dating back 300 years, has been brilliantly regenerated by B...
Walthamstow EMD Cinema
Pilbrow & Partners
Pilbrow & Partners’ proposals restore the historic Hoe Street cinema to a live performance venue with a focus on comedy and community. The p...A38 Manadon Junction
Highways England and Plymouth City Council
The innovative collaboration between Highways England and Plymouth City Council has allowed an integrated approach to competing needs. Manadon is one ...
Collective Auction Rooms
Camden Town Unlimited
Collectives Auction Rooms beneficiaries are truly reflective of the community it serves and has transitioned to become a self-sufficient initiative. A...
DESIGN SUPPORT FOR RUNNYMEDE BOROUGH COUNCIL: RUNNYMEDE DESIGN GUIDE
Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, Design South East, Purcell and Runnymede Borough Council
Runnymede Borough Council received Government funding to improve design quality and decision-making across the borough, and appointed Tibbalds Urb...
Greater Norwich Joint Infrastructure Investment Plan and the supporting Infrastructure Investment Fund
Greater Norwich Growth Board
The GNGB are working in a unique long-term partnership. Their joint working agreement states that all decisions are to be unanimous. The authorities s...
Houlton - Link Road, Education and Community Partnerships
Urban&Civic PLC
With only 350 occupied homes at Houlton to date, the extent of meaningful and long-term partnerships already established for educational governanc...
Wild West End
Arup
Wild West End presents an exciting opportunity to demonstrate the collaborative potential of urban green infrastructure. The partnership reciprocally ...
New Islington
Urban Splash
Submission summary: The last 12 months has seen Urban Splash commence work on the final elements of New Islington – Manchester’s most...
Pydar Regeneration
Inner Circle Consulting in partnership with PRP
Submission summary: Pydar is transformational for the marginalised community of Truro (Outline Planning Application submitted in January 2020). W...
Regeneration of Hill Top Neighbourhood Centre, High View, Hatfield
Lovell Partnerships and Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
Submission summary: Given the drive for Garden Communities throughout the United Kingdom it is recognised that the Estate Management Design Guide...
Stonefield Edge, Bilston Urban Village
Countryside Partnerships West Midlands
Submission summary: Stonefield Edge, epitomises regeneration from every angle; through early dialogue with the Council and local community re...
The Northern Gateway Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF)
Avison Young
Submission summary: The Northern Gateway SRF is the largest and most ambitious residential-led development opportunity in Manchester in a generat...
Winstanley Estates Regeneration – Phase 1 Hybrid Planning application and masterplan
Taylor Wimpey
Submission summary: A unique regeneration project, that has been championed by the local community to achieve long term social, economic ...
Merchant Square Estate, Paddington
Merchant Square Estate
The well thought place-making strategy for Paddington Basin has seen the rise of Merchant Square as a vibrant destination that goes beyond standard es...
Moat Lane Regeneration Project
South Northamptonshire Council
The Moat Lane Regeneration Project represents a sensitive and effective regeneration scheme, led by South Northamptonshire Council, that is im...
Morland Gardens
Brent Council
This mixed use redevelopment scheme is a Council led proposal (submitted for Planning January 2020), developed by Curl La Tourelle Head Architectu...
Pilgrim Place, Newcastle
Avison Young
A resolution to grant planning permission for the first stage of the scheme (Bank House) was secured at in September 2019. The site forms part of t...
Wembley Park Masterplan: Eastern Lands
Quintain
The Eastern Lands mixed use development is an example of how through masterplanning a large regeneration area, an unproductive brownfield site can...
‘Southmead regeneration – working for the community’ project
Nash Partnership and Streets Reimagined
One of the UK’s largest community-led placemaking projects in one of the UK’s 10% most deprived wards. This people-led project will regene...
Team Catford
Team Catford has created an innovative and targeted programme of placemaking initiatives to support the long-term vision for the town centre. In creat...
CRATE St James Street
London Borough of Waltham Forest and CRATE Places UK
Submission summary: CRATE St James Street is an example of best practice in proactive and constructive partnership and positive collaboration between ...
Mulberry Place, Daventry
Marchini Curran Planning for Daventry District Council, Willmott Dixon Construction and Marchini Curran Associates
Submission summary: Mulberry Place represents the realisation of a scheme first conceived over 15 years ago, when the site was identified in ...
Stonefield Edge, Bilston Urban Village
Countryside Partnerships West Midlands
Submission summary: Stonefield Edge, epitomises the ‘best use of publicly owned land’ from every angle; through early dialogue wi...
The Glass Works
Barnsley Metropolitan Council
Submission summary: The Glass Works (TGW) is the transformative 3.8-hectares regeneration of Barnsley town centre. Barnsley Metropolitan Council (BMBC...
Wokingham Town Centre Regeneration
Wokingham Borough Council
Submission summary: Wokingham regeneration is a fantastic example of a local authority creating a bold vision for a thriving town centre and then...
Black's Gate - Former Visteon Site
Radius Housing
Submission summary: Black’s Gate represents an extremely complex brownfield regeneration project. Work on the ambitious project commenced i...
Hayfield Green - the redevelopment of former RAF Stanton Harcourt
Hayfield
Submission summary: This entry is for the positive negotiation of a residential-led full planning consent (18/01611/FUL) from West Oxfordshire Di...
Mayfield Partnership
U+I
Submission summary: From the creation of Manchester city centre’s first new public park in 100 years, to the re-use of historic buildin...
Mulberry Place, Daventry
Marchini Curran Planning for Daventry District Council, Willmott Dixon Construction and Marchini Curran Associates
Submission summary: Mulberry Place represents the realisation of a scheme first conceived over 15 years ago, when the site was identified in ...
Scottish Marine Technology Park
Stantec
Submission summary: The SMTP will breathe new life into a long-neglected site. Its location on the River Clyde is historically significant given ...