PLACEMAKING CATEGORIES
AWARD FOR BEST HOUSING SCHEME (FEWER THAN 500 HOMES)
Brent Cross Town: Conductor House and The Delamarre
Submitting Organisation: Maccreanor Lavington
Client: Related Argent: Barnet Council : Architect: Maccreanor Lavington: Masterplan: Allies & Morrison Architects : Executive Architect & CMT: Whittam Cox Architects Cost Consultant: MACE (Stage 1 to 2, shared basement), Cast (Stage 3 onwards)
Brent Cross, 145 Claremont Road London NW2 1FE
As the first completed buildings that form Brent Cross Town, Conductor House, delivers 120 affordable homes, and The Delamarre 170 for market rent homes, within a thoughtfully designed, inclusive new neighbourhood, Sensitive massing and materiality respond to local context, while a new pocket park fosters social cohesion, wellbeing, an...
Gwel Basset, Tolgus
Submitting Organisation: Treveth
Client: Cornwall Council, Vistry Cornwall, LHC Design, Hydrock, Randall Simmonds, Roach Planning.
Redruth, Cornwall
Gwel Basset Phase 1, a Redruth development by Treveth, reached completion in August 2025. All 185 sustainable new build homes (one-four bedrooms) have been made available to those who live, work in or have family connections in the area. Tenures include 45% private rental, 15% open market sale, 14% affordable rent and 6% shared ownersh...
Moseley Almshouses
Submitting Organisation: Pegasus Group
Client: Pegasus Group, Lenchs Trust
Moseley, Birmingham
The Lench’s Close extension delivers six one- and two-bedroom homes for older residents, with full planning permission secured, providing affordable, charity-led housing that supports independent living. By transforming underutilised green space into a landscaped shared courtyard, the scheme extends opportunities for social interaction...
The Canopies
Submitting Organisation: Greencore Homes
Milton Heights, Abingdon
The Canopies is a 42-home, landscape-led residential development delivering Better Than Net Zero homes at Milton Heights, Oxfordshire. Regenerating a derelict brownfield site at the entrance to the village, formerly a care facility, the scheme is shaped by its woodland setting and numerous mature trees protected by Tree Preservation Or...
AWARD FOR BEST HOUSING SCHEME (500 HOMES OR MORE)
Ashmere Garden Village (Phases 1 & 2)
Submitting Organisation: PRP
Client: Architect: PRP Developer: Countryside Clarion (Eastern Quarry) LLP Contractor: Countryside Partnerships North & South Planning Authority: Ebbsfleet Development Corporation Planning Consultant: Savills
Eastern Quarry, Ebbsfleet
Executive summary from entrant:Ashmere Phases 1 and 2 transform a disused industrial chalk quarry of no ecological, economic or social value, into a vibrant, biodiverse, modern garden village, delivering 516 high-quality, tenure-blind homes. The scheme’s design includes extensive green infrastructure, sustainable transport and thoughtf...
IX Battersea
Submitting Organisation: Watkin Jones
Client: Architects - Howells, Planning - Montagu Evans, Landscape Architect - Planit, Structural Engineer - Apex, Place Making / Cultural Strategy – FutureCity
Battersea Park Road
Executive summary from entrant:IX Battersea will be the area’s first affordable housing and student accommodation scheme, with commercial / community uses at ground floors. Located close to the Listed Power Station and Conservation Area, the scheme supports the regeneration of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area. It deli...
Joyce and Snells Estate Regeneration
Submitting Organisation: Inner Circle Consulting
Client: Enfield Council and Inner Circle Consulting
London
Executive summary from entrant:Joyce and Snell's proves council-led regeneration works at scale. Enfield is delivering 2,028 homes—over half affordable—on an estate where decline had eroded buildings and community confidence. A 78.5% ballot result came from rigorous engagement and intelligent phasing that puts residents first. Phase 1'...
AWARD FOR PROMOTING ECONOMIC GROWTH
1 Broadgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / AHMM / British Land
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:1 Broadgate is a truly transformational mixed-use scheme consisting of best-in-class Grade A office and vibrant arcades of retail, restaurants and bars with 29 shops and six restaurants. As the first major retail and leisure destination in the City of London for 15 years, 1 Broadgate is the latest scheme ...
Local Development Order 2025
Submitting Organisation: Thurrock Council
Client: Adams Hendry Consulting Ltd, DP World London Gateway, Ramboll, Pinsent Masons and National Highways
DP World London Gateway, Logistics Park, London Gateway Drive, Stanford Le Hope, Essex
Executive summary from entrant:Thurrock Council’s approval of a new 10 year Local Development Order (LDO) for DP World’s London Gateway Logistics Park represents a nationally significant planning intervention that accelerates growth, drives innovation, and delivers substantial economic, sustainability and employment benefits. The LDO s...
Southampton Renaissance
Submitting Organisation: Prior + Partners
Client: Southampton City Council, Prior + Partners, Civic Engineers, Newsteer, The Place Bureau
Southampton, UK
Executive summary from entrant:The Southampton Renaissance is a city-scale regeneration programme designed to reposition Southampton as a vibrant, inclusive, and investable city of opportunity. The Southampton Renaissance Masterplan, led by Prior+Partners’ integrated team of masterplanners, planners, and place economists, places econom...
AWARD FOR BEST USE OF ARTS, CULTURE OR SPORT IN PLACEMAKING
85 Gracechurch Street
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: Hertshten Properties (UK) Ltd, Shaw Corporation, Woods Bagot, Mola and DP9
City of London
85 Gracechurch Street is an outstanding scheme literally shaped by the focus on being a culture-led development informed by the rich 2,000 year heritage of the site. The Cultural offer is uniquely three-dimensional, with a free to visit Roman Basilica and Forum public exhibition and education space below street level, a ground floor cu...
More than a Library - Hackney Central Library
Submitting Organisation: Hackney Council
Client: The Design Concept
Hackney
The refurbishment of Hackney Central Library is a powerful example of culture-led placemaking, transforming a 22-year-old civic building into a vibrant, inclusive cultural and social hub. Shaped through extensive co-design with residents, disabled users, young people, families and staff, the project embeds arts and culture as placemaki...
Regent's Park Estate Story Trail
Submitting Organisation: Old Diorama Arts Centre
Client: Camden Council, UAL: Central Saint Martins, Community Champions Regent's Park, Fitrovia Youth in Action, Regent's Place
Regent's Park Estate, Camden, London
The Regent’s Park Estate Story Trail is the gold standard of community-led, socially engaged public art. It is an ambitious, innovative, large-scale artistic intervention in Camden’s largest social housing community, and an exemplar of long-term, in-depth, mass community engagement in place-shaping within a neighbourhood facing the dis...
St. George's Leisure & Residential Development
Submitting Organisation: Child Graddon Lewis
Client: London Borough of Tower Hamlets, LA Architects, Montague Evans, Farrer Huxley, Leadenhall
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
St George’s is a transformative health led placemaking project for Tower Hamlets, integrating sport, culture, housing, heritage and public realm.By combining a state-of-the-art leisure facility, social rented homes and the renewal of St George’s Gardens, it addresses multiple determinants of health—physical activity, mental wellbeing, ...
West Wickham Library
Submitting Organisation: Brimelow McSweeney Architects
Client: London Borough of Bromley Place Department, Housing, Planning & Regeneration
Glebe Way, West Wickham, Greater London, BR4 0SH
This council led project should win for its holistic approach to regeneration on West Wickham’s High Street that provides social housing and an enhanced library that serves the community as a cultural hub. The new entrance pavilion Café opens up the library with an active frontage to a public square. A car park behind the library was r...
AWARD FOR BEST USE OF HERITAGE IN PLACEMAKING
85 Gracechurch Street
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: Hertshten Properties (UK) Ltd, Shaw Corporation, Woods Bagot, Mola and DP9
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:85 Gracechurch Street is literally shaped by heritage and informed by the rich 2,000-year history of the site. The heritage offer is uniquely three-dimensional; a free to visit Roman Basilica and Forum public exhibition and education space at Roman street level, a ground floor new public hall responding ...
County Hall Kingston
Submitting Organisation: London Square
Client: Rolfe Judd (Architects)
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Executive summary from entrant:The Grade II* Listed County Hall in Kingston upon Thames is being transformed from former administrative buildings into a vibrant residential, cultural, and employment hub. The adaptive reuse is rooted in respect; retaining and sensitively converting the listed building, while introducing new architectu...
Former Wye College Regeneration
Submitting Organisation: Union4 Planning
Client: TT Group, BDB Architects, Lee Evans Partnership, Citrus Construction Management
Wye, Ashford, Kent
Executive summary from entrant:The proposals have brought back into viable use and secured the future of a nationally important complex of listed buildings within a village conservation area, at the heart of the Kent Downs National Landscape. The former college site comprises Grade I and II Listed buildings, as well as a Scheduled Anc...
Fredericks Place
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / Stanton Williams / Mercers Company
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:Fredericks Place is transformed into an inclusive, permeable, culturally enriching, welcoming public place. The refined scheme re-invents the City’s alleys blending seamlessly into a sensitive context, transforming a once private inward-looking enclave into a truly integrated new public realm, offering be...
John O'Groats Mill
Submitting Organisation: McGregor Bowes
Client: McGregor Bowes, John O'Groats Mill Trust
John O'Groats
Executive summary from entrant:John O'Groats Mill represents an exemplary heritage-led regeneration of Scotland's last operational water-powered grain mill. Acquired by the community in 2020 after standing vacant since 2001, this £4.9m restoration has transformed a Category B-listed building at risk into a thriving hub for education, e...
AWARD FOR PARTNERSHIP WORKING
Barking Riverside and Homes England
Submitting Organisation: Barking Riverside Limited and Homes England
Barking
Executive summary from entrant:Homes England has partnered with Barking Riverside Limited (BRL) to unlock thousands of vitally needed new homes at Barking Riverside, one of Europe’s most significant residential and placemaking projects. Set on the banks of the River Thames in East London, Barking Riverside is being led by master develo...
Hertfordshire Healthy and Safe Places Framework
Submitting Organisation: Hertfordshire Growth Board
Client: All members of the Hertfordshire Growth Board and Prior and Partners
Hertfordshire
Executive summary from entrant:The Hertfordshire Healthy and Safe Places Framework will transform how we create healthier, safer, and more sustainable communities. Developed by the Hertfordshire Growth Board with health, policing, business and local government partners, and in collaboration with Prior and Partners, it provides an evide...
London Cancer Hub
Submitting Organisation: Savills
Client: Aviva Capital Partners; Socius; Meeting Place
London Borough of Sutton
Executive summary from entrant:The London Cancer Hub exemplifies partnership led placemaking at its most ambitious. It brings together world leading cancer research and treatment institutions, the local authority, community organisations, developer partners and a multidisciplinary team to create a healthy, green and inclusive research ...
Sheffield Together
Submitting Organisation: Homes England
Client: Sheffield City Council, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, Sheffield Property Association, Homes England and South Yorkshire Housing Partnership
Sheffield
Executive summary from entrant:The Sheffield Together Partnership is delivering a truly transformative and replicable model for public sector collaboration. Bringing together Sheffield City Council, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, Homes England, Sheffield Property Association, and South Yorkshire Housing Partnership, it aim...
AWARD FOR REGENERATION
Beckton Riverside Phase 1, Newham
Submitting Organisation: JTP
Client: JTP, St William (Berkeley Group)
Newham
Executive summary from entrant:Beckton Riverside Phase 1 marks the transformative first step in regenerating one of London’s largest underutilised brownfield sites at Gallions Reach. Once Europe’s largest gasworks, the site has remained dormant and disconnected for decades. The proposals seek to establish a riverside neighbourhood, del...
Joyce and Snells Estate Regeneration
Submitting Organisation: Inner Circle Consulting
Enfield, London
Executive summary from entrant:Joyce and Snell's addresses acute deprivation through council-led regeneration of a rundown 1950s/60s estate with documented resident concerns about crime, poor maintenance, and substandard housing. The scheme demonstrably improves physical quality through 2,028 modern homes (53% affordable), enhanced pub...
Spitfire Hangar at Brabazon
Submitting Organisation: YTL Developments
Client: YTL Developments, YTL Construction, Ferguson Mann Architects, YTL Live.
Bristol / South Gloucestershire (BS34)
Executive summary from entrant:Spitfire Hangar at Brabazon has been transformed from a deteriorating Grade‑II listed aviation building into a vibrant new community hub for North Bristol. Delivered ahead of planning requirements, it now offers a cafe and bakery, bookable workspaces, meeting rooms and an events hall for up to 300 people,...
AWARD FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE
1 Broadgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / AHMM / British Land
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:1 Broadgate is a bold expressive colourful architectural statement of outstanding sustainability credentials. A transformation of a previous impermeable office island site devoid of active frontages with a new multi-level network of pedestrian connections with vibrant retail arcades and generous amenity s...
50 - 51 Russell Square
Submitting Organisation: The Bedford Estates, Garnett Architecture
Client: Garnett Architecture (Architect and Lead Designer), The Bedford Estates (Client), The Heritage Practice (Heritage Consultant), Savills (Planning Consultant), Mason Navarro Pledge (Structural Engineer)
Bloomsbury, London
Executive summary from entrant:50–51 Russell Square demonstrates how context led design can deliver meaningful planning betterment in a sensitive conservation area. The scheme retains and adapts the 1960s structure, recognising the cultural value of Brutalist architecture, while introducing a finely crafted, heritage responsive elevati...
99 Bishopsgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / Brookfield Properties / RSHP
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:99 Bishopsgate demonstrates how a progressive, contemporary tall office building can, through a collaborative planning process, be sensitively integrated within the historic context of the City of London, while responding to City occupier demands. Developed through a planning led approach, the scheme prio...
London Cancer Hub
Submitting Organisation: Savills
Client: Aviva Capital Partners; Socius; Gensler
London Borough of Sutton
Executive summary from entrant:The London Cancer Hub involves a world class, design led transformation of a former hospital site into a landscape driven, sustainable and community centred life sciences district, recognised by the 2025 NLA Award for Healthcare and Life Sciences. A clear design vision anchored in a central green spine, i...
The Character of Growth Study
Submitting Organisation: London Borough of Enfield
Client: Enfield Council - Urban Design and Heritage Team
London Borough of Enfield, North London
Executive summary from entrant:Prepared in house by Enfield Council’s Urban Design Team, the Character of Growth Study provides a design led framework that underpins the Local Plan’s site capacities, densities, building heights and locations for tall buildings. It applies a character and typology based approach to guide how growth can ...
The Earls Court Masterplan
Submitting Organisation: The Earls Court Development Company
Client: Hawkins\Brown, Studio Egret West, SLA, ZCD Architects, A Project
Earls Court
Executive summary from entrant:The Earls Court masterplan demonstrates design excellence through an unusually collaborative, design-led process that places community and stakeholder insight at its core. High-quality design was shaped iteratively through early masterplan workshops, over 20 Design Review Panels, more than 200 pre-applica...
AWARD FOR FOSTERING A HEALTHY TOWN CENTRE
100 Fetter Lane
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / Fletcher Priest / Yard Nine
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:100 Fetter Lane is a gentle, humane scheme promoting health and wellbeing to the occupiers of the building but also a calming, culturally enriching contribution to the area. The scheme delivers a secluded, tranquil pocket park with a café connecting to a City garden with quotes from local poets in the lan...
Re-inventing the City's alleys : new pedestrian routes in the City of London
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: Space Syntax
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:City Planning is committed to transform the Square Mile into a healthier, gentler, cleaner, more equitable and inclusive City. Improving active travel, walking and wheeling by increasing pedestrian routes through planning permissions is key in accommodating a growing working population exceeding 680,000. ...
AWARD FOR MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
1 Broadgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / British Land / AHMM / DP9
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:1 Broadgate is a bold, colourful development of outstanding sustainability credentials. A transformation of a previous impermeable office island site devoid of active frontages with a new multi-level network of pedestrian connections, a major office building with vibrant retail, restaurant, bars and leisu...
100 Fetter Lane
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / Fletcher Priest / Yard Nine
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:100 Fetter Lane delivers much needed best-in-class Grade-A workplace, low-carbon, net-zero operationally pioneering circular economy with material passports whilst also re-inventing and enhancing a City pub; a 200% increase in public realm with a new pocket park and new alleys to a City garden delivering ...
Fredericks Place
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / Stanton Williams / Mercers Company
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:Frederick Place with its complementary uses, transforms a once private inward-looking enclave into an inclusive public realm for all, offering much needed best in class office floorspace delivering economic growth, retail uses creating vibrancy and the Archives building an educational resource for the wid...
Mayfield - Phase One
Submitting Organisation: The Mayfield Partnership (a public-private partnership comprising Landsec, Manchester City Council, Transport for Greater Manchester and Platform4)
Client: Landsec, Manchester City Council, Transport for Greater Manchester and Platform4
Manchester
Executive summary from entrant:Mayfield is a unique place setting an international benchmark for sustainable urban regeneration. Transforming 24-acres of derelict brownfield land beside Piccadilly Station, it is delivering meaningful economic, environmental and social impact in Manchester city centre. Over half the neighbourhood will b...
Trafford Wharfside
Submitting Organisation: Cole Waterhouse Limited
Client: Champan Taylor Architects, Paul Butler Associates, re-form Landscape Architects
Trafford, Greater Manchester
Executive summary from entrant:A truly mixed use, mixed tenture development occupying a single urban block in Trafford, Greater Manchester. The scheme is the first large scale developmet to come forward in the emerging Trafford Wharfside development area. The development comprises three distinct but interconnected parts; 382 Build to R...
BEST USE OF PUBLICLY-OWNED LAND AND/OR PROPERTY IN PLACEMAKING
To be announced on the night
BEST USE OF BROWNFIELD LAND IN PLACEMAKING
Furnace Hill and Neepsend
Submitting Organisation: Homes England
Client: Sheffield City Council, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, Sheffield Property Association, Homes England and South Yorkshire Housing Partnership
Sheffield
Executive summary from entrant:This transformative project revitalises 5.97 hectares of complex brownfield land within a national Levelling Up priority area. By securing £67m in Brownfield Infrastructure Land Funding a nd utilising strategic land assembly, Homes England have de-risks a fragmented urban landscape to unlock 1,326 homes a...
Harbour Village
Submitting Organisation: Bellway
Client: Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, Gravesham Borough Council, Moat Housing
Northfleet, Kent
Executive summary from entrant:A flagship project within the wider Ebbsfleet Garden City development, Harbour Village is transforming a disused brownfield site in the most deprived neighbourhood in Gravesham into an attractive and sustainable new riverside community. Overcoming significant challenges posed by the steep gradient of this...
Heyford Park
Submitting Organisation: Dorchester Living
Client: Proctor and Matthews Architects, Rolton Group, Kim Wilkie, Stantec, Pegasus Group, Mode Transport, BSG Ecology
Cherwell, Oxfordshire
Executive summary from entrant:Dorchester Living’s plans to transform the former RAF Upper Heyford brownfield airbase into a new town set a new benchmark for community-led, sustainable placemaking with the potential of becoming a settlement of approximately 15,000 homes. A hybrid planning application has been submitted to deliver up to...
Indurent Park Derby
Submitting Organisation: Indurent
Client: Indurent – Developer and Property Manager; Network Rail – Strategic Landowner and Partner; Derby City Council – Local Authority Partner; RPS – Planning Consultant; Stephen George + Partners – Architect
Derby, East Midlands, Derbyshire
Executive summary from entrant:Indurent Park Derby has transformed 67 acres of long-underused brownfield land into a nationally significant manufacturing and logistics hub, delivering over 700,000 sq ft of sustainable employment space, generating more than 1,250 jobs across the skill spectrum once fully occupied. Through major infrastr...
Pines Way, Bath
Submitting Organisation: JTP
Client: JTP, Hub, Bridges Fund Management
Bath
Executive summary from entrant:Pines Way, Bath is a transformative regeneration project delivering 454 new homes, including build-to-rent and shared living accommodation, alongside flexible commercial and amenity spaces. Situated on a long-vacant brownfield site in Bath Western Riverside, the project connects communities, the riverside...
AWARDS FOR PLANNING FOR INCREASED HOUSING DELIVERY
Alma Estate Regeneration
Submitting Organisation: Vistry
Client: Vistry, Enfield Council
London Borough of Enfield
Executive summary from entrant:The Alma Estate’s final phases exemplify how professional planning can unlock significant uplift in housing delivery. Securing planning approval from Enfield Council for 723 mixed-tenure homes - an increase from the 401 originally consented - demonstrates Vistry’s ability to respond to local need, acceler...
Sheffield Together
Submitting Organisation: Homes England
Client: Sheffield City Council, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, Sheffield Property Association, Homes England and South Yorkshire Housing Partnership
Sheffield Together
Executive summary from entrant:Sheffield Together has transformed citywide housing delivery by establishing a unified decision-making framework that effectively de-risks complex brownfield sites. By aligning five major partners, the partnership manages a robust 53 site pipeline with a capacity for 10,671 home capacity. In 2023/24, the ...
PLANNING CATEGORIES
AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Albert Jacob House
Submitting Organisation: Child Graddon Lewis
Client: London Borough of Tower Hamlets & Child Graddon Lewis
Tower Hamlets, London
Executive summary from entrant:Albert Jacob House, a new mixed-use scheme for Tower Hamlets Council, is part of the council’s own home-building programme and the delivery of council homes for rent. The project provides 53 much-needed affordable (social rent) homes, and five commercial units for local businesses. Over half the new housi...
KSW Tiller Road
Submitting Organisation: PRP
Client: PRP, HTA Landscape, Riverside, Mount Anvil, Quod
Isle of Dogs (London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
Executive summary from entrant:KSW Tiller Road is designed to be a destination people are proud to call home. The site is optimized to ensure viability, deliverability and affordability. Our approach for the design of KSW Tiller Road recognises the importance of its existing residents, its context, all the aspirations set for the devel...
Land East and West of Station Road, Petworth
Submitting Organisation: Henry Adams LLP
Client: Henry Adams LLP, Hyde Housing Association, PDP Architectures, Terra Firma and RGP
Petworth, West Sussex
Executive summary from entrant:This project delivers 19 high-quality affordable homes through the sensitive redevelopment of 11 outdated garage courts within a post-war estate in Petworth, South Downs National Park. In a highly constrained, high-value area, it demonstrates how planning can unlock meaningful affordable housing on previo...
Lyndhurst Farm and Scotts Wood Park Affordable Housing Projects
Submitting Organisation: GRIGGS
Borehamwood & Bushey - Hertsmere, Hertfordshire
Executive summary from entrant:Griggs’ in-house Planning Team has delivered two record-breaking affordable housing schemes in Hertsmere, securing planning permission for over 430 affordable homes at Lyndhurst Farm and Scotts Wood Park. In a borough delivering just 39 affordable homes annually against a need for 590, these permissions r...
AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR SENIOR LIVING
Bulmer House, Petersfield
Submitting Organisation: Archadia (UK) t/a WWA Studios
Client: (1) WWA Planning (planning strategy, DM, appeal/resubmission route, stakeholder engagement) (2) WWA Architecture / Urban Design (design leadership, design charrette, landscape-led revision) (3) Housing 21 (Client / Registered Provider) (4) South Downs National Park Authority (PPA engagement / collaborative design evolution)
Petersfield, Hampshire (South Downs National Park)
Executive summary from entrant:WWA’s planning leadership unlocked 56, 100% affordable extra care homes and a community day centre within the South Downs National Park, one of the UK’s most sensitive policy and landscape contexts. Following a committee refusal on design grounds, WWA reset the project through a design charrette, a Planni...
Wallacea Living Marylebone
Submitting Organisation: Berkeley and Wallacea
Client: Berkeley and Wallacea
Marylebone, London
Executive summary from entrant:Wallacea Living Marylebone sets a new benchmark for senior living in London through an exemplary approach to design and community integration. Delivering 104 luxury apartments with tailored amenities, it empowers over-65s to live independently while fostering social connection. As the most central integr...
AWARD FOR PLANNING FOR THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Barking Riverside Foreshore Works
Submitting Organisation: Barking Riverside Limited
Client: Barking Riverside Limited
Barking, London
Executive summary from entrant:Helping to enhance the largest grassland of its kind in London, the Barking Riverside Foreshore Works is a landmark ecology-led project delivering long-term environmental and community benefit. The scheme creates and supports intertidal habitats, supporting thriving wildlife whilst significantly improving...
Brook Avenue
Submitting Organisation: PRP
Client: J Group
London Borough of Brent
Executive summary from entrant:J Group appointed PRP for architecture and landscape architecture services to deliver a 588-unit landscape-led masterplan, prioritising nature and outdoor space. The design angles buildings away from Wealdstone Brook and Brook Avenue, allowing landscape to permeate and create fluid, natural spaces rather ...
Enfield Chase Landscape Recovery & Nature-Led Planning Framework
Submitting Organisation: London Borough of Enfield
Client: London Borough of Enfield, DEFRA /Environment Agency, Thames21/Rivers Trust
Enfield Chase, London Borough of Enfield (North London / London–Hertfordshire Green Belt fringe)
Executive summary from entrant:Enfield Chase Landscape Recovery & Nature-Led Planning demonstrates how professional plan-making can drive landscape-scale environmental restoration while responding to metropolitan growth pressures. Embedded within the Enfield Local Plan, the Council is aligning a DEFRA-backed Landscape Recovery Scheme a...
Greater Norwich Green Infrastructure Strategy (GNGIS)
Submitting Organisation: Greater Norwich Growth Board (GNGB)
Client: Broadland District Council, South Norfolk Council, Norwich City Council, Norfolk County Council
Greater Norwich
Executive summary from entrant:The GNGIS is an evidence-led, cross-boundary vision to embed nature at the heart of growth. 35+ organisations and over 1,000 public responses have fed into the strategy, prioritising health, biodiversity and climate resilience. It is progressing as an SPD and will integrate GI into statutory planning poli...
IAG Vertical Farm
Submitting Organisation: 4TY Planning Ltd
Client: 4TY Planning Ltd
Bracknell
Executive summary from entrant:IAG have commenced the operation of their vertical farm in Bracknell. While we argued that the use fell within the definition of agriculture, the Council disagreed and we appealed by way of a hearing. The Inspector granted a Lawful Development Certificate, confirming the use as an agricultural one. This i...
Kitland Solar
Submitting Organisation: LDA Design
Client: LDA Design’s planning team co-ordinated the planning application working closely with Statkraft UK and a wide range of technical experts including: •Planning and lead consultant (LDA Design), •Landscape architects (LDA Design), •Ecologists (BSG Ecology), •Transport consultants (PJA), •Arboricultural consultants (Aspect Tree Consultancy), •Heritage consultants (Headland Archaeology), •Noise consultants (Accon UK), •Flood risk and drainage experts (Campbell Reith), •Glint and glare specialists (Wardell Armstrong), •Soil quality assessors (Kernon Countryside Services)
Lower Stock Farm, Bakers Lane, Langford, North Somerset BS40 5HT (Easting 346012; Northing 161749)
Executive summary from entrant:Kitland Solar sets a new benchmark in demonstrating how large-scale energy infrastructure can be sensitively designed to deliver multiple beneficial outcomes for society and nature. In addition to producing renewable energy and CO2 offsetting, the project’s pioneering agri-environmental approach means tha...
AWARD FOR PLANNING TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
81 Newgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: City of London / KPF / Orion
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:81 Newgate is an outstanding, internationally renowned, ground-breaking retrofit scheme, exemplifying exemplary sustainability, Whole Life Carbon including operational carbon reduction, biodiversity gain, urban greening delivering urban cooling and exemplary Circular Economy and material re-use credential...
AAH Planning Consultants
Submitting Organisation: AAH Planning Consultants Ltd
Various BESS consents - see Supporting Statement
Executive summary from entrant:AAH Consultants has secured planning consent for 11 Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) between 1 January 2024 – present, providing a combined 2.2GW of grid-scale energy storage capacity. Through expert planning consultancy services including input into project design, community engagement, policy inter...
Barking Riverside Foreshore Works
Submitting Organisation: Barking Riverside Limited
Client: Barking Riverside Limited
Barking, London
Executive summary from entrant:A climate resilience-led project, the Barking Riverside Foreshore Works will help futureproof a large scale neighbourhood of up to 20,000 new homes in East London against the impacts of climate change. The highly collaborative project raises flood defences and creates new drainage infrastructure, unlock...
Low Carbon Development Training Programme
Submitting Organisation: UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), on behalf of London Councils, Bioregional and Preoptima
Client: London Councils, UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), Bioregional, Preoptima
London-wide – 32 London Boroughs and the City of London
Executive summary from entrant:Local Authorities are powerful gatekeepers of built environment carbon emissions, yet planning teams face acute green skills and capacity gaps on carbon and climate. Commissioned by London Councils and delivered by the UKGBC, Bioregional and Preoptima, the Low Carbon Development Training Programme aims to...
Net-zero Spatial Planning Tool
Submitting Organisation: Bioregional
Client: Bioregional and Space Syntax
England
Executive summary from entrant:The team developed the Net Zero Carbon Spatial Planning Tool, which enables local authorities to model and reduce carbon emissions from new developments. The tool quantifies construction, operational, and transport emissions, supports scenario planning for sustainable site allocations, and helps integrate...
Retrofit First Policy
Submitting Organisation: Westminster City Council
City of Westminster
Executive summary from entrant:Westminster City Council have developed an innovative and sector-leading new policy: retrofit first. This policy requires developers to thoroughly explore options for retrofitting their sites instead of demolition. This approach balances growth and economic development, while addressing the environmental...
Uttlesford Local Plan 2021-2041
Submitting Organisation: Uttlesford District Council
Client: Uttlesford District Council; Bioregional; Essex Council Council (Climate & Planning Unit)
Uttlesford, Essex
Executive summary from entrant:The new Uttlesford Local Plan 2021–2041 is ‘climate-led’, requiring low-carbon, climate-resilient development that reduces emissions at source while improving residents’ quality of life. As a result, development in the district will be ultra-low-energy, fossil-fuel-free buildings powered by renewable ener...
AWARD FOR USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN PLANNING
Leeds City Council Planning and Sustainable Development and Xylo
Submitting Organisation: Leeds City Council
Client: Xylo
Leeds
Executive summary from entrant:Leeds City Council and Xylo have piloted “Xylo” Core, to enable planning officers to dedicate more of their professional time to the areas that truly matters. Over three months, officers tested the AI tool on live applications. Time savings were significant: officers saved 20% of their working day, with r...
PlanAI: An AI tool for Digital Planning
Submitting Organisation: Greater Cambridge Shared Planning
Client: University of Liverpool, JDi Solutions, MHCLG (Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Greater Cambridge
Executive summary from entrant:PlanAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) tool specifically designed to process and summarise the thousands of comments submitted during planning policy consultations. Developed in partnership with the University of Liverpool, and built on over 100,000 previous consultation comments and planning terms, Pl...
Plymouth City Council - PlaceMaker Site Analysis and Dashboards
Submitting Organisation: Urban Intelligence
Client: Plymouth City Council; Urban Intelligence.
Plymouth, UK
Executive summary from entrant:Plymouth City Council (PCC) partnered with Urban Intelligence (UI) to modernise their sites assessment process as work begins on their new Local Plan. PCC officers used UI’s PlaceMaker to assess potential development sites across Plymouth to inform a proactive response to the national housing delivery ...
The Deployment Model
Submitting Organisation: The Crown Estate
Client: 1. The Crown Estate and 2. Frazer-Nash Consultancy
National
Executive summary from entrant:Our Deployment Model is a digital tool that uses layers of spatial data to review competing marine demands and seabed uses to 2050. The tool provides a 30-fold speed improvement on a manual GIS approach and spatially deconflicts space enabling infrastructure, habitats and marine users to co-exist. The mod...
AWARD FOR STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN PLANNING
Camley Street stakeholder engagement
Submitting Organisation: Ballymore Group on behalf of Camden Council Community Investment Programme, Ballymore, Lateral – public/private partnership
Client: Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios (masterplan and Site A) /Morris+Co (Site B) Planning consultant: Turley Landscape: Spacehub Community Engagement: make:good Street Life Strategy: RCKa
Camley Street, Camden , London NW1
Executive summary from entrant:From late 2024, Ballymore Lateral built on Camden Council’s previous four years of engagement, evolving it into a focused, inclusive programme that directly shaped the emerging Camley Street proposals. This activity strengthened relationships with residents, young people, Councillors, and businesses, usin...
Chrisp Street, Poplar
Submitting Organisation: JTP
Client: JTP, Telford Living, Poplar Harca, AND London
Poplar, Tower Hamlets
Executive summary from entrant:Chrisp Street, at the heart of Poplar, serves one of the youngest, most diverse boroughs in the country. As the sole District Centre across four wards, it supports over 100,000 people, yet faces pressures from declining footfall, a poor pedestrian environment and stalled redevelopment; leaving derelict si...
Kintore Hydrogen
Submitting Organisation: Cavendish
Client: Cavendish, Statera Energy
Aberdeenshire
Executive summary from entrant:The Kintore Hydrogen planning campaign demonstrates outstanding stakeholder engagement across every stage of the application process. Cavendish delivered early, proactive outreach to elected members, statutory consultees, community groups, local representatives and the wider public, shaping a transparent ...
Liverpool Bay Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Project
Submitting Organisation: WSP
Client: WSP, Liverpool Bay CCS Limited, Eni UK
Liverpool Bay Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Project
Executive summary from entrant:The Liverpool Bay Carbon Dioxide Transportation and Storage Project sets a new benchmark for stakeholder engagement in the Carbon Capture and Storage sector. Our proactive, transparent and inclusive approach reached thousands from young people, land owners, elected members and statutory consultees, throug...
Spelthorne Design Code
Submitting Organisation: David Lock Associates, Feria Urbanism and Spelthorne Borough Council
Client: David Lock Associates, Feria Urbanism, Spelthorne Borough Council, Støriie, Fathom Architects and Latcham
Spelthorne Borough, Surrey
Executive summary from entrant:The Spelthorne Design Code project demonstrates exemplary breadth, depth and integrity in public engagement. It reached people of all ages and circumstances through walking tours, digital tools, schools’ workshops and a citizens’ panel, building a genuinely representative evidence base. The approach was ...
The Earls Court Masterplan
Submitting Organisation: The Earls Court Development Company
Client: ZCD Architects, LCA, Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West, Kanda, SLA
Earls Court
Executive summary from entrant:Over four years, ECDC made genuine engagement with stakeholders a central pillar of its strategy, reaching thousands of local residents, with a focus on seldom-heard voices, through innovative measures that directly shaped the design process. Through a locally recruited community team, an open-door consul...
Westwick Row
Submitting Organisation: The Crown Estate
Client: TOWN, Sortition, Periscope, Archio, Mole Architects
Land at Westwick Row and Green Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Executive summary from entrant:Westwick Row aims to create a participatory community, shaped and stewarded by residents and local people, influencing decisions from early design through long‑term management. From September 2024 to November 2025, extensive engagement took place with over 35 hours of codesign workshops. Local residents, ...
AWARD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING
A122 Lower Thames Crossing Development Consent Order
Submitting Organisation: Lower Thames Crossing
Client: National Highways, Jacobs, Arcadis, COWI, TLT
Kent, Essex and Havering, London
The Lower Thames Crossing is one of the largest and most complex projects to navigate the Planning Act 2008 regime. It sets a new standard for infrastructure, combining innovation, sustainability, environmental leadership, and strong community engagement, supported by tools such as ward level consultation. Designed to be the UK’s green...
Beaulieu Park Station
Submitting Organisation: Arcadis
Client: Arcadis, Network Rail/ Greater Anglia, J. Murphy & Sons Limited, Chelmsford City Council, Essex County Council.
Beaulieu Park, Chelmsford, Essex
Beaulieu Park – the first new station on the Great Eastern Main Line in over 100 years. The project is enabling Chelmsford’s growth, easing pressure on the city’s main station while supporting new housing and economic development in the Beaulieu Garden Community.The opening of the station is the culmination of many years hard work and ...
Re-inventing the City's alleys : New pedestrian routes in the City of London
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Client: Space Syntax
City of London
The most important mode of transport in the City of London is walking and wheeling and the most important and overlooked transport infrastructure essential for the City to absorb a growing working population exceeding 680,000 is its network of pedestrian routes. Through negotiating 10 new pedestrian routes in planning permissions in ju...
AWARD FOR PLAN-MAKING
Heyford Park
Submitting Organisation: Dorchester Living
Client: Proctor and Matthews Architects, Rolton Group, Kim Wilkie , Stantec, Pegasus Group, Mode Transport, BSG Ecology
Bicester, Oxfordshire
Executive summary from entrant:Dorchester Living’s masterplan for the former RAF Upper Heyford airbase exemplifies how strategic planning can deliver lasting social, economic and environmental benefits. Transforming a major brownfield site, it will deliver up to 9,000 homes, including 2,700 affordable, alongside assisted living and key...
Liveable Water Lane Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
Submitting Organisation: LDA Design
Client: LDA Design’s planning team co-ordinated development of the SPD alongside Exeter City Council, working closely with a wide range of technical experts including: •SLR Consulting – mobility strategy, •Atkins Realis – primary school options, •3Adapt – Net zero strategy
Water Lane, Exeter
Executive summary from entrant:The Liveable Water Lane SPD has been prepared by Exeter City Council and LDA Design to shape and drive forwards the redevelopment of a key strategic brownfield redevelopment area in the city. Through the SPD, Water Lane will become Exeter’s flagship low carbon, low car neighbourhood of 2,200 homes, regene...
The Dalston Plan
Submitting Organisation: London Borough of Hackney
Client: Objectif, We Made That , Allies & Morrison Urban Practitioners, Studio Weave / Architecture 00, Urban Flow, Jan Kattein
Dalston, London
Executive summary from entrant:The Dalston Plan Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) provides a framework to guide the long-term regeneration of Dalston Town Centre, to support the delivery of the growth strategy set out in the Borough wide Local Plan. The SPD ensures development aligns with local needs and supports the town centre’s ...
PLANNING PERMISSION OF THE YEAR
85 Gracechurch Street
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Hertshten Properties (UK) Ltd, Shaw Corporation, Woods Bagot, Mola and DP9
Executive summary from entrant:Therefore, the heritage led placemaking destinations within 85 Gracechurch Street will truly be culturally, socially, educationally, economically transformative and an exemplar of inclusive, heritage-led placemaking.
99 Bishopsgate
Submitting Organisation: City of London / Brookfield Properties / RSHP
City of London
Executive summary from entrant:A transformational planning permission for an iconic 54 storey tower on the northern gateway into the City Cluster. A scheme that delivers substantial economic and employment growth, a transformation of the public realm with a network of new pedestrian routes, a new inclusive public Cultural space for use...
Bromley by Bow Gasworks
Submitting Organisation: St William Homes LLP
East London
Executive summary from entrant:This site includes a unique collection of 7 Grade II listed gasholders, making it one of the most challenging and fascinating brownfield projects in the UK. A truly collaborative approach between St William, LBN, GLA and Historic England with design led by RSHP has created a masterplan of the highest qua...
Coinagehall Street & St Antony Gardens, Penzance
Submitting Organisation: Treveth
Penzance, Cornwall
Executive summary from entrant:B Corp Cornish developer Treveth has received full planning permission to build a mixed-use development on the under-utilised Coinagehall Street site in Penzance. The permission also includes the regeneration of St Anthony Gardens, an open space for the community which is located on the sea front. O...
Joyce and Snells Estate Regeneration
Submitting Organisation: Inner Circle Consulting
London
Executive summary from entrant:Joyce and Snell's estate regeneration secured hybrid planning consent in 2024 following a resident ballot with 78.5% support. The permission enables delivery of 2,028 homes (53% affordable by habitable room) on a failing 1950s estate in Upper Edmonton. The scheme transforms physical quality through HTA De...
London Cancer Hub
Submitting Organisation: Savills (alongside Aviva Capital Partners and Socius)
London Borough of Sutton
Executive summary from entrant:The London Cancer Hub is a transformative project creating a place where world leading research, innovation, healing and community life come together. It will create thousands of high quality jobs for local people, provide affordable homes for key workers, and deliver new public spaces that foster collabo...
AWARD FOR IN-HOUSE PLANNING TEAM OF THE YEAR
Griggs
Submitting Organisation: GRIGGS
Griggs’ in-house Planning Team has delivered an exceptional year, securing planning permissions across a diverse portfolio of residential, commercial, and nationally significant infrastructure projects. Operating as a fully integrated function, the team leads all stages of the planning process, providing strategic oversight, managing c...
NHS Property Services Town Planning Team
Submitting Organisation: NHS Property Services
Client: NHS Property Services / NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon & Wiltshire ICB / Wiltshire Council
The NHSPS Town Planning Team has grown to 18 planning professionals and is the only dedicated in-house planning service in the NHS, covering all aspects of spatial planning. The Team has a unique role, leading and championing town planning both within NHSPS, but also across wider NHS organisations, working in partnership with commissio...
PLANNING LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
Broadfield UK
Submitting Organisation: Broadfield Law UK LLP
Surrey
Executive summary from entrant:The M25 Junction 10/A3 Improvement Scheme delivers transformative benefits at one of the UK’s busiest junctions. Broadfield helped National Highways navigate a complex planning and consenting landscape involving protected habitats and species, a Special Protection Area and other environmental designations...
Dentons Planning Team
Submitting Organisation: Dentons UK and Middle East LLP
Bedford
Executive summary from entrant:Advising the Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government on the Special Development Order (SDO) granting planning permission for the £6bn Universal UK Theme Park and Resort complex at Bedford. The project is planned to be one of Europe's largest themed destinations and will include th...
Mishcon de Reya
Submitting Organisation: Mishcon de Reya
Team: London / Projects: London Borough of Havering, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London Borough of Ealing and Slough Borough Council
Executive summary from entrant:Our planning team continues to enable transformative and complex regeneration projects, delivering significant and lasting social, economic and environmental benefits for communities. Our work for Havering & Wates has unlocked over 2,000 homes with 173% increase in affordable housing. Our pro bono work h...
TLT LLP
Submitting Organisation: TLT LLP
Luton Airport, Luton, Bedfordshire and a road tunnel beneath the River Thames east of London connecting Kent and Essex
Executive summary from entrant:The TLT team’s legal work on Luton Airport Expansion and the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) allows delivery of two of the UK’s largest projects with positive economic and social benefits for communities whilst minimising environmental impacts. The airport project, led by Luton Rising, reflects its social pur...
Town Legal
Submitting Organisation: Town Legal LLP
London
Executive summary from entrant:Town Legal LLP advised Reselton Properties on the redevelopment of the historic Stag Brewery site in Mortlake. After a decade-long planning process and a four-week public inquiry, our client secured permission in May 2025 for a £1.3bn scheme that creates a new heart for Mortlake: over 1,000 homes, a much-...
AWARD FOR PLANNING CONSULTANCY OF THE YEAR
Arcadis Town Planning Team
Submitting Organisation: Arcadis
UK
Executive summary from entrant:Our Planning Team is proud to help clients tackle the biggest issues facing the UK. We deliver at all scales - from the biggest DCOs to community-scale projects. Professional diversity is our superpower with expertise that spans policy, development management, placemaking, engagement and consents advisory...
DWD
Submitting Organisation: DWD
London City
Executive summary from entrant:DWD have been planning for new communities and infrastructure for over 40 years, working with our clients and Local Authorities to deliver sustainable development. We are a team who persevere through challenges and are generous with their time and skills. We have longstanding relationships with local comm...
Euan Kellie Property Solutions
Submitting Organisation: Euan Kellie Property Solutions
Client: Euan Kellie Property Solutions
Euan Kellie Property Solutions works nationally from a base in Manchester City Centre.
Executive summary from entrant:We’re a small team of highly experienced, chartered planners, committed to having a big impact. We don’t shy away from complex briefs; believing wholeheartedly that the only way to achieve successful outcomes is to work closely with local authorities to get the right result. We value positivity, fairnes...
LDA Design
Submitting Organisation: LDA Design
LDA Design is a 200-strong employee-owned business. We operate a one-business model, with studios located in Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Oxford and Peterborough
Executive summary from entrant:LDA Design is an employee-owned collective of placemakers with a purpose to shape the world for the better. Our approach to planning is distinctive, collaborative and interdisciplinary. We start by listening. We search for answers beyond the red line, and focus on the best outcomes for communities and cl...
LOCAL AUTHORITY PLANNING TEAM OF THE YEAR
City of London Corporation
Submitting Organisation: City of London
Executive summary from entrant:The City Planning team’s Pro-Growth, proactive solution-focussed culture reinforces investor confidence in the City and consequently overseen a 10-year record-breaking year of applications, bucking the national trend, delivering over half a million sqm of floorspace, accommodating 40,000 jobs for the UK. ...
Malvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils Joint Planning Service
Submitting Organisation: Malvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils Joint Planning Service
Executive summary from entrant:The Joint Planning Service for Wychavon and Malvern Hills District Councils delivers outstanding service to local communities by combining strategic leadership, proactive place-shaping and strong operational performance across plan-making, development management and enforcement. Over the past year, the te...
North Kesteven District Council Development Management Team
Submitting Organisation: North Kesteven District Council
Executive summary from entrant:The NKDC Development Management team drives sustainable growth and community wellbeing across North Kesteven. In 2024/25, they achieved a 97% planning approval rate - one of the highest nationally - through proactive engagement and timely decisions. Their innovative Solar Community Benefit Policy will sec...
Oxford City Council
Submitting Organisation: Oxford City Council
Executive summary from entrant:Oxford City Councill’s Planning Service has taken a positive approach to meet the significant demand that has arisen within the city as part of the growth potential of the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor. All parts of the service have combined to deliver several mixed-use regeneration schemes and standa...
Uttlesford District Council
Submitting Organisation: Uttlesford District Council
Executive summary from entrant:Uttlesford’s Planning Team has been on a transformation journey. In 2022, it was formally designated for underperformance and in 2023 threatened with local plan intervention. In response, it delivered rapid and sustained transformation, stabilised staff resources, launched new performance software with pa...