The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence celebrate outstanding plans, projects and people that demonstrate the power of planning. These awards highlight exceptional examples of how planning and planners have a positive impact on our quality of life in creating exceptional places and protecting our environment.
Entries for this year’s awards have now closed. A huge thank you to everyone who entered.
The finalists in the East of England region have now been announced for:
- Best Project (this is the winner of seven project categories)
- Best Plan (this is the winner of the Excellence in Plan Making Practice category)
- Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Head Planner of the Year
- Young Planner of the Year
- The Chair's Award (presented to an individual who has gone over and above providing support and mentoring in a professional or personal context to others within the planning industry)
All finalists will be provided with an RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence ‘Finalist’ logo, which can be used on your website, email, social media and other promotional materials.
The East of England winners will be announced on 30 June 2022 at the Hylands Estate in Chelmsford. We’re looking forward to celebrating with you in person this year.
The winning and top-scoring entries across all 15 categories will become national finalists in October and we will reward and celebrate the very best in planning at a ceremony in central London on 30 November. The silver jubilee cup will be awarded to the project deemed the most outstanding of all the winning projects.
For more details on the Awards for Planning Excellence including the timeline, list of all categories, and FAQs, visit our awards hub.
You can also join the conversation on our social media channels using #RTPIAwards.
Thank you to our generous sponsors for supporting these awards:
Headline sponsors
Lanpro
Lanpro
Lanpro is an independent multi-disciplinary consultancy specialising in planning, masterplanning, architecture, built heritage, landscape architecture, and archaeology. The business was established in 2008, and has 3no offices in the East of England – Cambridge, Chelmsford and Norwich. We have extensive knowledge and experience of guiding clients through the planning process and are actively working on development projects in a range of sectors. Our team is well placed to respond proactively to the most challenging of timetables, creating a responsive and bespoke service specifically to meet the needs our clients through a collaborative and commercial approach.
Bidwells
Bidwells
Bidwells are a leading property consultancy, at the forefront of two of the most dynamic real estate markets in the UK: the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and the emerging field of Natural Capital.
Today, their 500-strong team works across England and Scotland and manages over £5.2 billion in property assets for national and international investors.
Bidwells are globally connected and serve as a gateway to these and other highly attractive markets for governments, universities, science and technology corporations and investors from North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe.
Young Planner of the Year category sponsor
Countryside
Countryside
