London Region Awards for 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 2024 who were announced at the Awards Ceremony on 27th June at City Hall.
- Best Plan – OPDC Industrial Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) submitted by Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation
- Best Project – College Road, Croydon submitted by HTA Design LLP
- Young Planner of the Year – Emily Moulson
- Small Consultancy of the Year – HTA Design LLP
- Planning Authority of the Year – London Borough of Haringey
- Chair’s Award – Enfield Borough Council
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 five 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 16 October and the winners will be announced and celebrated on 26 November 2024 in London at the national ceremony. Details will be announced here.
*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
- Inspirational Leader of the Year
Thank you to the judges
Thank you to our volunteer judges, who have spent their time diligently reviewing, cogitating, and deliberating the entries before coming to the truly difficult decision of deciding winners.
For more information
If you have any questions, please visit the awards hub or contact London Coordinator for more information or to discuss sponsorship opportunities.
Ceremony Sponsors
Dentons
Ceremony Sponsor
Dentons
Ceremony Sponsor
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.
Quod
Ceremony Sponsor
Quod
Ceremony Sponsor
Quod is a specialist, independent and employee-owned consultancy, advising on all aspects of planning, development economics, socio-economics and environmental planning based in London and Leeds.
Our focus on delivering the right outcomes has earned us the privilege of working with a wide range of brilliant clients on some of the most exciting projects in the country. This has helped us to recruit and retain some of the very best people in the industry.
Category Sponsors
Countryside
Category - Young Planner of the Year
Countryside
Category - Young Planner of the Year
Countryside – a leading UK home builder specialising in placemaking and urban regeneration. Founded over 60 years ago, Countryside works in partnership with communities to create places people love. We are passionate about the environments we create, the new community facilities and spaces we deliver. Delivered through carefully masterplanning developments to integrate new facilities to benefit residents, delivering supporting infrastructure and landscape-led public spaces. To create thriving and vibrant new communities, our focus is on long term stewardship and Building Communities.
Hybrid Planning & Development
Category Sponsor - Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
Hybrid Planning & Development
Category Sponsor - Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
Hybrid Planning & Development is an award-winning planning consultancy founded by 2023 Women of Influence, Claire Day and Danielle St Pierre. The firm specialises in high-quality, mixed-use developments in complex and challenging urban environments across the UK, creating sustainable homes, communities and places of work, leisure, education and care.
Hybrid offers the full range of town and country planning application services, including single dwelling and residential extensions, major residential, mixed use and Private Rented schemes, changes of use and variation of condition applications and large-scale urban regeneration projects.
From its East London base, Hybrid’s energetic team is committed to using planning for meaningful socioeconomic change, and is actively involved with the RTPI, RICS, Women in Planning, UKREiiF and other professional groups to ensure advice is robust, informed and contributes to positive, and inclusive, planning and placemaking.
