Celebrating Planning Excellence
The North West 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
- ID Manchester Strategic Regeneration Framework, submitted by Deloitte LLP
- Stockport Town Centre Residential Design Guide, submitted by Stockport Council
- The Trafford Design Code, submitted by Trafford Council
Best Project
- Animate, submitted by Preston City Council & Maple Grove Developments Ltd
- Co-op Live Arena, submitted by Deloitte LLP
- Jubilee Gardens, submitted by South Ribble BC
- No.1 St Michael’s, submitted by Zerum
- Paterson Redevelopment Project, submitted by Turley
- Rochdale Town Hall , submitted by Rochdale Council
- Stanneylands, submitted by David Wilson Homes
- Theatre Porto, Ellesmere Port, submitted by Cheshire West & Chester Council, Theatre Porto, Equans, Bennetts Architects, Lambert Smith Hampton
Teams and People
- Cassidy + Ashton
- Hannah Mitchell
- Liverpool City Council
- Made it Together
- Stockport Council
- Trafford Council
- Wignalls Chartered Surveyors
- Zerum
Join us to celebrate regional excellence
Now that our regional shortlist has been announced, we are looking forward to giving recognition to the planners and teams who have delivered such inspiring work this past year.
We hope you can join us at our Annual Dinner, taking place on Thursday 19 June at the Kimpton Clocktower in Manchester, where we will be announcing and honouring our regional winners.
A stepping stone to our national celebration
All the North West Awards regional 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.
For more information
If you have any questions, please visit the awards hub or contact Bev Watson, RTPI North West Regional Coordinator.
Kindly sponsored by
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.
