The North East Awards Annual Dinner celebrates our members’ great successes and achievements within planning. The evening will recognise and celebrate those outstanding individuals and projects who entered the 2024 Awards for Planning Excellence. The evening is also a fantastic opportunity to make new acquaintances and to catch up with friends and colleagues.
Dress code: Black tie preferred
The evening will consist of
- A sparkling wine reception
- Three course dinner menu including wine
- Presentation of Award for Planning Excellence finalists followed by announcements of this year's Award Winners
- Top NE Magician - Graeme Shaw
- Paul Slattery Caricaturist/Cartoonist
- View Dinner menu
Thank you to our sponsors Banks Property and Homes, EDF Renewables, Hedley Planning Services and Womble Bond Dickinson.
Learn more about our Awards for Planning Excellence.
Contact Kim Walker for sponsorship opportunities.
Sponsors
Banks Property and Homes
Banks Property and Homes
With decades of expertise in developing land across the North East and Yorkshire, Banks Property (part of the Banks Group) is dedicated to promoting high-quality, much-needed homes for people in the places where they want to live. We prioritise working with communities and landowners throughout the development fostering local social, economic, and environmental benefits through every project. This is what we call development with care.
Elevating modern living, Banks Homes is a regional house builder that create homes designed by life. Placed for perfection and combining style as standard with innovative sustainable design to seamlessly blend elegance, quality, and practicality.
EDF Renewables UK and Ireland
EDF Renewables UK and Ireland
EDF Renewables UK and Ireland is part of one of the world’s largest electricity companies and our investment and innovation in renewable energy projects is reducing costs for consumers and bringing significant benefits to communities.
EDF Renewables has an experienced team bringing complex development projects to fruition, across various renewable technologies, including onshore and offshore wind, solar, battery storage and hydrogen with more than 550 colleagues across the UK.
Hedley Planning Services
Hedley Planning Services
Hedley Planning is an award winning town planning consultancy, with a strong regional focus and a track record for unlocking complex sites and securing implementable planning permissions for clients.
Operating from two north east offices, our highly experienced staff advise a range of clients for housing, commercial and industrial developers and investors. Our experience sets us apart from our peers, we bring commercial knowledge to all schemes to ensure clients have clear, sound direction.
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP
The Planning team at Womble Bond Dickinson is ranked as a national leader, outside London, and advises on the full range of planning and highways matters, including compulsory purchase order work. The team acts for a national client base including developers, local authorities, landowners, house builders and energy companies and specialises in advising on major development schemes and nationally significant infrastructure projects. The team represents clients in planning litigation and planning inquiries, advises on a significant number of complex compulsory purchase matters, and has promoted 25 Development Consent Orders (DCOs) to date across the energy, waste and transport sectors.
