London Awards for Planning Excellence Shortlist
The RTPI London Awards for Planning Excellence 2025 showcase and celebrate the best plans, projects and people.
Congratulations to the following entries who have been selected for our 2025 shortlist:
Best Plan:
OPDC Public Realm and Green Infrastructure Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) entered by Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)
Staples Corner Growth Area Masterplan and Design Code Supplementary Planning Document (November 2024) entered by Brent Council
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan 2024 entered by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
London Borough of Newham Green and Water Infrastructure Strategy entered by Arkwood Ltd
Best Project:
Tower Court, Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design,
Vine Street Roman Wall Exhibition entered by City of London,
Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo entered by Smith Jenkins Ltd
Planning Authority of the year
City of London
Bromley Council
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Be First (on behalf of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham)
Mid-size Planning Consultancy of the year
We’re keeping this category under wraps... for now! Stay tuned for an exciting reveal on the night of the ceremony.
Small Planning Consultancy of the year
We’re keeping this category under wraps... for now! Stay tuned for an exciting reveal on the night of the ceremony.
Young Planner of the Year
Kathryn Humber
Charlotte Tate
Alexander Tayler
Michael Briginshaw
Antonia May
Join us to celebrate regional excellence
Now that our regional shortlist is out, we are looking forward to meeting and giving recognition to the planners and teams who have delivered such inspiring work this past year.
We hope you can join us for our London celebration event on Thursday 10 July where we will be announcing and honouring our local winners. The event will be held at Howden in London.
A stepping stone to our national celebration
All the London Awards local winning entries will be put forward for the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence national awards*. The national finalists will be announced in mid-October. And the winners will be honoured at a celebration ceremony taking place in London on 27 November.
*All Young Planner of the Year winners will be entered into the national shortlist and will be judged by the national judges and the top five will become national finalists.
Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors: Dentons and Vistry Group
If you are interested in sponsoring the London awards, please contact Rachel Smith, RTPI London Regional Coordinator.
For more information
For questions about the shortlisting and celebration event please visit the awards hub or contact Rachel Smith, RTPI London Regional Coordinator.
Ceremony Sponsors
Dentons
Dentons
Dentons UKI planning team sits within our 200+ strong UKI real estate practice working from five offices across the UK and Ireland. We are ranked as one of the UK's leading planning law practices in the Legal 500 and Chambers Directories. We are known for expertise in large-scale housing and mixed-use regeneration projects, CPO and infrastructure advice. The range, complexity and profile of work – for national and local Government, developers, investors and infrastructure providers – stands out. Our point of difference is the balance of advising both Government and investors on all areas of planning law.
This gives us a different perspective and helps drive our reputation for finding solutions and remaining at the forefront of legal innovation. Our working culture - focussed on building consensus and solving problems within project teams and with counterparties - is distinctive. We believe our values – brevity, integrity, innovation and common sense – are recognised as helping us to drive success for our clients.
Howden
Howden
At Howden, we pride ourselves on being a broker with a difference, combining the knowledge of a specialist broker, the agility of a start-up, and the scale and experience of an established international business. Since the beginning, our founders wanted Howden to be a business we all feel proud of so from individual volunteering to product innovation, we are working to make a positive impact.
We have over 28 years of experience and expertise in providing Professional Indemnity Insurance solutions for Planning Consultants and provide risk management advice and broking services to clients ranging from sole traders through to large multi-office firms.
Category Sponsors
Vistry Group
Young Planner of the Year Category Sponsor
Vistry Group
Young Planner of the Year Category Sponsor
Vistry Group is a top 5 housebuilder with a purpose to develop sustainable new homes and communities across all sectors of the UK housing market. Vistry do this with an ethos of doing the right thing across all operations, and with our people acting by our values of integrity, caring and quality.
Vistry Group is uniquely positioned to lead the way in the UK housing market with a countercyclical business model featuring Vistry Housebuilding and Vistry Partnerships which combines both partner delivery and development-led capabilities and has a hard-earned reputation for delivery, quality and sector knowledge across all housing tenures.
