PLANNING CATEGORIES

AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR INCREASED HOUSING DELIVERY

Lewisham Small Sites SPD

RCKa

Lewisham Council needs to deliver over 16,000 new homes over the next ten years, including 3,790 on small sites. RCKa’s Small Sites SPD provides a comprehensive toolkit for developers, community groups, planning officers and citizens to assist them in unlocking small sites, and in thinking positively and creatively about the gentle int...

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AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Ebury Bridge Estate Renewal Project – City of Westminster

Westminster City Council and Gowling WLG

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

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Osiers Road

Rolfe Judd Planning

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

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AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Canada Dock, Canada Water Masterplan

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

As one of the few remaining docks in the Surrey Docks area, Canada Dock is a powerful reminder of the area’s working heritage and an important wetland habitat, designated as a SINC. As a key space for the Canada Water Masterplan, the vision for the Dock is to improve the ecology and provide an environment where people and nature are ...

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AWARD FOR USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN PLANNING

Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan

Commonplace

Plymouth, West Devon and South Hams needed technology that could engage the most people possible for their Joint Local Plan. With a Commonplace website, they engaged a diverse group from the farmlands to the bustling Plymouth streets and understand what the community loves about their area and, most importantly, what should be improv...

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Trafford Waters Masterplan

Arcadis

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

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PLANNING LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR

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

Womble Bond Dickinson

Combining legal expertise and deep sector understanding, WBD has a strong history of advising on planning issues for some of the largest projects across the UK. Our team positively engages with clients, key stakeholders and communities, to find sustainable and innovative solutions for the delivery of growth-enabling infrastructure proj...

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Bridgwater Tidal Barrier

BDB Pitmans

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

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AWARD FOR PLANNING CONSULTANCY OF THE YEAR

Edgars Limited

Edgars is committed to delivering ‘inspiring futures and places’ through a uniquely progressive approach, based on a depth understanding of clients’ vision, collaboration, creative thinking, transparency, and clear communication. These strongly held values have enabled our project teams to work with clients and third parties in a no...

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AWARD FOR PLAN-MAKING

West Bromwich Masterplan (endorsed Feb 2022)

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

The Masterplan sets out core guidance and a vision to make transformational changes to West Bromwich; a narrative which has been crafted and shaped by a range of stakeholders from local school children to institutional investors. This vision was formed during the adversity of the Covid 19 pandemic; with the project team successfully in...

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AWARD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING

Brent Cross Town Electrical Sub-Station

CarneySweeney / Related Argent in partnership with Barnet Council

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

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LOCAL AUTHORITY PLANNING TEAM OF THE YEAR

Buckinghamshire Planning & Environment Service

Buckinghamshire Council

The service has been built from the legacy councils, into a high performing, high functioning and customer responsive service. This has built a strong reputation locally and nationally and confidence amongst stakeholders that the Council delivers on its promises and is a strong advocate for how high performing planning authorities have...

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PLANNING PERMISSION OF THE YEAR

Dagenham Green

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

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

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Gravity LDO

This is Gravity Ltd and Stantec UK Ltd

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

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AWARD FOR STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN PLANNING

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

London Borough of Newham

This work deserves an award for its successful and meaningful engagement. The various innovative methods used significantly increased the quantity and range of stakeholders who responded: creating a growing pool of interested and empowered stakeholders, and providing invaluable insights to shape the Plan. The consultation outreach – ...

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

London Borough of Waltham Forest

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

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AWARD FOR PLANNING TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE

National Planning Framework 4

Scottish Government

NPF4 is a radical new national development plan that unequivocally puts climate change at the heart of planning policy for the first time. It demonstrates how planning can rise to unprecedented challenges to lead decisive and positive change in society. This has been achieved through professional rigour, as well as energy and commitmen...

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PLACEMAKING CATEGORIES

AWARD FOR BEST HOUSING SCHEME (FEWER THAN 500 HOMES)

Collaton 'A Different Approach'

Pillar Land Securities Ltd and Coln Signature Homes

Collaton, a pilot scheme for “A Different Approach”, seeks to address the extreme housing challenges faced by many communities today. The scheme seeks to rebalance the existing housing market by delivering a range of new and innovative housing tenures and employment solutions in rural communities. The project is the collective work of ...

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AWARD FOR BEST HOUSING SCHEME (500 HOMES OR MORE)

Oval Village Phase 2

GRID Architects with Berkeley Homes

This major regeneration project will transform a contaminated and derelict site into a vibrant, mixed-use community of 738 homes with shops, cafés, and offices. The Oval Gas Works was a secure compound with no public access, and designated as a Key Industrial Business Area. GRID worked with Lambeth Council and Berkeley Homes to produce...

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Chilmington

Hodson Developments

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

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AWARD FOR PROMOTING ECONOMIC GROWTH

Blackhorse Lane Strategic Industrial Location Masterplan Framework and Creative Enterprise Zone

London Borough of Waltham Forest

This comprehensive masterplan for Blackhorse Lane SIL will safeguard the future success of this key strategic industrial site. The masterplan will unlock the intensification and modernisation of employment space as well as creating a more attractive and biodiverse environment. The masterplan unlocked and responded to the specific needs...

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Gravity LDO

This is Gravity Ltd and Stantec UK Ltd

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

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AWARD FOR BEST USE OF ARTS, CULTURE OR SPORT IN PLACEMAKING

Windrush Public Art Commissions

Hackney Council

Situated on the Narrow Way is Ryan’s fruit sculpture which serves as a tactile intervention at the heart of community life in the borough. Warm Shores by Price is a pair of monumental figures that stand proudly outside Hackney Town Hall. Its subject has now become a major cultural issue across the world: asking how power is transmitted...

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AWARD FOR BEST USE OF HERITAGE IN PLACEMAKING

Restoration and reuse of the historic EMD Granada Walthamstow

London Borough of Waltham Forest

The Soho Theatre Walthamstow project has restored one of the borough’s key historic buildings to its former glory, through careful and considered understanding and intervention. In doing so it has removed the building from the At Risk register. It is a leading example of how investment in heritage assets can have overwhelmingly positiv...

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Southgates Masterplan Development Brief

BDP

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

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AWARD FOR PARTNERSHIP WORKING

LLDC Women and Girls Safety Project

London Legacy Development Corporation

The issue of gender inequality in urban design and planning has been chronically overlooked. LLDC is pioneering work on gender mainstreaming. It is the first local planning authority that have gathered gender-disaggregated data to establish a baseline against which the results of the urban design interventions set to improve gender equ...

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Towns Fund Delivery Partner

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

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

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AWARD FOR REGENERATION

Grahame Park estate regeneration Masterplan

Patel Taylor on behalf of Notting Hill Genesis

Developed by NHG in partnership with Barnet Council, Stage B of the Grahame Park estate regeneration Masterplan provides 2,088 new homes, a new community centre, nursery, shops, cafes and restaurants, as well as flexible workspace for local businesses. The proposals also include a new high street that stitches the proposals into surrou...

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Clichy Estate Regeneration

PRP and London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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

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AWARD FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE

Hull Royal Infirmary New Main Entrance and Paediatric Department

Race Cottam Associates

The project involves a new three storey extension and remodelling to the existing tired main entrance and provides a new frontage and focal point which welcomes and guides users to the hospital.Internally the double height atrium and heart space has been designed to enhance visitor, patient and staff experience. The scheme provides sig...

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York Way Estate

Maccreanor Lavington

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

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AWARD FOR FOSTERING A HEALTHY TOWN CENTRE

Good Growth for Angel Edmonton

Enfield Council

At the core of the project is a belief that a healthy community makes for a healthy town. Opening design processes to local people has allowed a project of modest scale touching upon the lives of thousands. The project has created new community space. Its greatest legacy however is the capacity, networks and organisations that have bee...

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AWARD FOR MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT

Circus Street

U+I

A ground-breaking partnership between U+I (a Landsec company), Brighton & Hove City Council and the University of Brighton has injected new life into an overlooked part of the city, introduced beauty where there was blight, brought jobs and investment and expanded the limits of what was previously thought possible. On the site of a der...

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AWARD FOR COMMUNITY-LED PLACEMAKING

Neighbourhood Priorities Fund

London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC)

The NPF is a programme through which the LLDC allocates local CIL receipts. The programme has been designed with communities at its heart. Through workshops and individual meetings, applicants are supported to bring forward projects that address the challenges faced by local communities. A representative panel of residents and other lo...

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BEST USE OF PUBLICLY-OWNED LAND AND/OR PROPERTY IN PLACEMAKING

Weyside Urban Village, Guildford Borough Council

Guildford Borough Council

WUV will make the most efficient use of public land in a sustainable location to create a vibrant new 20 minute community alongside the River Wey, which will be: - Regenerative – a place that rejuvenates both the site and its surroundings, offering healthy lifestyles in an ecologically rich landscape. - Resourceful – a place that...

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BEST USE OF BROWNFIELD LAND IN PLACEMAKING

Industria, Barking

Haworth Tompkins

Industria is one of a new generation of urban industrial buildings that are integrated within mixed-use townscapes and provide high-quality urban design, as well the amenities to support local neighbourhoods and to attract and retain skilled workers. It seeks to catalyse long-term change in the local economy and townscape, supporting t...

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Dagenham Green

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

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

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