South West Awards for Planning Excellence Shortlist
The RTPI South 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
- Liveable Water Lane Supplementary Planning Document: Development Framework And Design Code entered by Exeter City Council and LDA Design
- Jersey Marine Spatial Plan entered by Fiona Fyfe Associates and Government of Jersey
- Chippenham Neighbourhood Plan entered by Chippenham Town Council
Find out more about these entrants here
Best Project
- North Prospect Regeneration entered by Plymouth Community Homes and Plymouth City Council
- The Stirling Veterans Self Build Project entered by Plymouth City Council
- Derriford Commercial Centre entered by Plymouth City Council
- Saltford WRC Access Road and Bridge entered by Wessex Water
Find out more about these entrants here
Small and Mid-Size Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Lighthouse Development Consulting
- Place Studio
- Pearce Planning
- Polden Planning
- Master Land and Planning
Find out more about these entrants here
Young Planner of the Year
- Rachel Blanchard, BCP Council
- Elliot Dommet, Stantec
- Harry Dent, WSP
Find out more about these entrants here
"Entries for this year’s south west RTPI awards demonstrated the extraordinary variety of work that the regions planning professionals undertake. From our exceptionally talented young planners, to seasoned consultancy practices, to hard-working local planning authorities, this year’s entries demonstrate the skill, dedication and creativeness that south west planners pour into their work on a daily basis and the judging panel have very much enjoyed the difficult task of picking the worthy shortlist for the awards."Stuart Wingfield, RTPI South West Head Judge
Read more about all of our shortlisted entrants here.
Join us to celebrate regional excellence
Now that our regional shortlist is out, we are looking forward to meeting and giving recognition to the planners and teams who have delivered such inspiring work this past year.
We hope you can join us for our South West Summer Reception and Awards Ceremony on Wednesday 11 June where we will be announcing and honouring our local winners. The reception will be held at the Sandy Park Stadium, Exeter.
Find out more and book your tickets here.
A stepping stone to our national celebration
All the South West Awards local 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.
Sponsors
Our South West sponsors are Stride Treglown and Vistry Group.
Vistry
Sponsor of the Young Planner of the Year category
Vistry
Sponsor of the Young Planner of the Year category
Vistry Group is the UK’s leading provider of mixed-tenure homes. Our purpose as a responsible developer is to work in partnership to deliver sustainable homes, communities, and social value, leaving a lasting legacy of places people love.
Operating across 26 regions, we build homes for those who need them right across the UK, including Devon, Cornwall and Bristol. We sell homes on the open market through the Group’s three respected housebuilding brands: Bovis Homes, Linden Homes, and Countryside Homes.
We are a multi award-winning housebuilder and the Group has again been awarded the 5 Star Rating by the Home Builders Federation following the latest industry’s Customer Satisfaction Survey.
Vistry is committed to encouraging young people into the industry and ensuring we provide a wide variety of trainee, apprenticeships, graduate and continued development opportunities. Our young people within the industry will be the leaders in the future, therefore this award provides Vistry with an excellent opportunity to recognise excellence in this category.
Stride Treglown
Sponsor of the South West Best Project Category
Stride Treglown
Sponsor of the South West Best Project Category
"Stride Treglown are delighted to continue our sponsorship of the SW RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence. The quality of the diverse submissions we have seen in recent years continues to demonstrate the importance of the input of planners have in the development process and, in particular, the ability to influence projects which involve the creative re-use of sites."
For more information
For questions about the shortlisting and celebration event please visit the awards hub or Charlotte Daborn, RTPI South West Regional Coordinator.
