Celebrating Planning Excellence
The RTPI North West Awards for Planning Excellence 2024 showcase and celebrate the best plans, people and projects.
Our coveted awards recognise and highlight the positive contribution planning professionals make in the communities we serve around the world.
There are 15 planning related categories in the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence. See the full list here.
Plans
Projects
- 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)
- Excellence in Digital Planning Practice
- International Award for Planning Excellence
People
- In-house Planning Team of the Year
- Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Planning Authority of the Year
- Inspirational Leader of the Year
- Young Planner of the Year
Click to see more on our North West region winners.
Key dates 2024
- 1 and 2 May - North West judges site visits
- 8 May - North West presentations/interviews on Teams
- 20 May - North West shortlist announced
- 27 June - Announcing the winners in the North West region at the North West Annual Dinner
- August/September - National awards judging
- Mid October - National finalists announced
- End November - National ceremony
The judging process
The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence has 15 national award categories. Entries in the North West are initially judged across 10 categories and awarded as:
- Best Plan
- Best Project
- Planning Authority of the Year
- Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Young Planner of the Year*
These winners become national finalists.
The shortlisted entries are put through for judging in the national awards and will be judged against the others in their selected categories for the national finalist list. The remaining five direct to national categories are also judged to complete the national finalist list of 15 categories. The winners and commendations are announced at the national ceremony in 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.
The RTPI North West Awards for Planning Excellence winners will be announced at our Annual Dinner to be held in Manchester on the 27 June 2024. Please save the date and we will provide further information nearer the time.
For more information
If you have any questions, please visit the awards hub or contact North West Regional Coordinator. for more information.
Thank you to Sponsor
Lambert Smith Hampton
Lambert Smith Hampton
Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) is one of the UK and Ireland's leading, and most progressive, multi-disciplinary property consultancies with 29 offices and over 1,000 staff. Our Planning, Regeneration + Infrastructure (PR+I) team covers the entire development and regeneration lifecycle, helping to identify, appraise, unlock, and maximise the development potential and investment, environmental and social value of complex urban and rural sites and buildings.
Acting out of our Manchester office, the team are very active across the entire Northwest region and beyond. Recent projects include significant regeneration masterplans in Preston, Barrow and Skelmersdale which will deliver significant comprehensive residential led regeneration, planning support on the Hybrid Bill for the HS2 route from Crewe to Manchester, as well as various education, town centre and cultural led projects across the region.