Celebrating Planning Excellence
The London Awards for Planning Excellence continue to recognise and highlight the positive contribution planning professionals make in the communities we serve around the world.
Congratulations to the London Awards for Planning Excellence winners 2025 who were announced at the Awards Ceremony event on 10 July at Howden, One Creechurch Place, London, EC3A 5AF
- Best Plan – OPDC Public Realm and Green Infrastructure Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) submitted by Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)
- Best Project – Tower Court and submitted by Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design
- Planning Authority of the Year – Be First (on behalf of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham)
- Mid-Size Planning Consultancy of the Year – PMV Planning
- Young Planner of the Year – Alexander Tayler
- Chair’s Award – Tower Court and submitted by Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design
A stepping stone to our national celebration
These winners become national finalists except for Young Planner of the Year who will be judged by the national judges in September. The top five will become Young Planner of the Year national finalists.
All the shortlisted entries from the project categories* will be judged for the national finalist list. The remaining four direct to national categories** are also judged to complete the national finalist list of a total of 15 categories.
The national finalists will be announced on 9 October. The winners will be announced and celebrated at the national ceremony on 27 November 2025 in London.
*Project categories:
- Excellence in Planning for a Successful Economy
- Excellence in Planning for Health and Wellbeing
- Excellence in Planning for Heritage and Culture
- Excellence in Planning for the Natural Environment
- Excellence in Planning for Communities (small schemes under 50 homes)
- Excellence in Planning for Communities (large schemes of 50 homes or more)
**Direct to national categories:
- Excellence in Digital Planning Practice
- International Award for Planning Excellence
- In-house Planning Team of the Year
- Planning Consultancy of the Year
Thank you to the judges
Thank you to our judges for generously volunteering their time, dedication, and expertise to the judging process, including participating in interviews and site visits. Your commitment and support are truly appreciated.
For more information
If you have any questions, please visit the awards hub or contact name of coordinator job title.
Thank you to our sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors: Dentons, Howden and Vistry Group
If you are interested in sponsoring the London awards next year, please contact Rachel Smith, RTPI London Regional Manager.
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.
