The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence celebrate outstanding plans, projects and people that demonstrate the power of planning. These awards highlight exceptional examples of how planning and planners have a positive impact on our quality of life in creating exceptional places and protecting our environment.
Entries for this year’s awards have now closed. A huge thank you to everyone who entered.
The finalists in the South East region have now been announced for:
- Best Project (this is the winner of seven project categories)
- Best Plan (this is winner of the Excellence in Plan Making Practice category)
- Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Young Planner of the Year
- The Chair's Award*
*The Chair's Award is a discretional Award chosen by the Regional Chair and agreed with the Regional Judges. This year’s Chair's Award will focus on 'Greener' Planning; recognising the schemes, development plans, and planning professionals (individuals or teams) for planning for a more sustainable future. This could include contributions to net zero, biodiversity, climate change sustainability goals. The Award may be given to a person, team, department, authority or planning practice which has stood out this year.
All finalists will be provided with a RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence ‘Finalist’ logo, which can be used on your website, email, social media and other promotional materials.
The South East winners will be announced at a Annual Awards evening on 30 June 2022 at a ceremony in Brighton. We’re looking forward to celebrating with you in-person this year. Book here
The winning and top scoring entries across all 15 categories will become national finalists in October and we will reward and celebrate the very best in planning at a ceremony in central London on 30 November. The silver jubilee cup will be awarded to the project deemed the most outstanding of all the winning projects.
For more details on the Awards for Planning Excellence including the timeline, list of all categories, and FAQs, visit our awards hub. You can also join the conversation on our social media channels using #RTPIAwards.
Thank you to our generous sponsors for supporting these awards.
Ceremony sponsor:
Francis Taylor Building
Ceremony Sponsor
Francis Taylor Building
Ceremony Sponsor
Francis Taylor Building is a leading set of barristers’ chambers specialising in planning and environmental law and related areas of expertise. Members are regularly instructed in relation to a broad spectrum of schemes including residential, retail, leisure and sport, commercial, major infrastructure projects, heritage, minerals, and local development plans.
Members provide specialist advice and appear at Planning and enforcement appeal inquiries, Development plan inquiries and Examinations in public and in the courts when challenges are made to administrative decisions.
"The clerks are absolutely superb and very quick to get back to you." "The team is very agile and very commercial … and you can discuss things based on client needs." Chambers and Partners 2022
Category sponsors:
Boyer Planning
Best project: Excellence in Planning Delivery (projects)
Boyer Planning
Best project: Excellence in Planning Delivery (projects)
Boyer is a multi-skilled leading planning consultancy firm with offices in the South East region including Wokingham and London. As part of the Leaders Romans Group, our expert team of planning consultants, masterplanners and designers combine our experience with local knowledge to bring insight and expertise to every development project. We work with all of our clients in a creative, collaborative and commercially focused way to ensure every project is built for success.
Carter Jonas
Best Plan: Excellence in Plan Making Practice
Carter Jonas
Best Plan: Excellence in Plan Making Practice
Carter Jonas is a leading UK property consultancy working across commercial, residential, rural, planning, development and infrastructure. We are renowned for the quality of our service, expertise and the simply better advice we offer our clients. Our specialist planning and development teams are based out of 6 regional hubs. The teams provide a multi-disciplinary service, working collaboratively with our infrastructure, commercial, rural and residential teams to provide our clients with a truly national service and regional expertise.
DHA Planning
Young Planner of the Year
DHA Planning
Young Planner of the Year
DHA has grown to be the largest independent multi-disciplinary planning consultancy in the South East, offering town planning & development, transport, design, environmental impact, infrastructure and land advice to clients across the UK.
Founded in 1986, DHA has been built on the performance of its expert and highly motivated team, thanks to its investment in staff development and a commitment to delivering high quality support and planning advice
