The winners of the Planning Awards were announced at a ceremony at London’s Savoy Place earlier tonight (6 June).
The North West Cambridge Development, submitted by the University of Cambridge, was handed the Editor’s Award, given to the Planning Award winner judged the most impressive.
The scheme is set on 150 hectares of former farmland on the edge of Cambridge. The university intends it to provide affordable homes for its key workers, who would struggle to meet the costs created by the city’s severe housing shortage, as well as 100,000 square metres of new academic and research facilities. In total, 3000 homes, half of them due to be for key workers, are planned.
In pictures: The 2018 Planning Awards
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The editor of Planning magazine, Richard Garlick, said: "North West Cambridge shows exemplary attention to the needs of the existing community around the site, delivering a new primary school among other social infrastructure ahead of the construction of new homes.
"All our judges were impressed by how it had been designed to minimise impact on the natural environment and how it promises to deliver half of its planned housing as affordable homes, let to key workers at a third of their household income." More on the North West Cambridge Development can be found here.
The awards, organised by Planning magazine and PlacemakingResource, span 11 categories in planning and 14 in placemaking, plus an overall editor’s award.
While the planning categories reward excellence in planning practice, the placemaking categories celebrate outstanding work in regeneration, economic development, urban design, sustainable development and community development, as well as planning.
Winners were chosen by an expert panel of 25 senior figures from across the sector.
Click on the headings for below for more details on the other winning entries.
Placemaking categories
Award for mixed-use development
WINNER: London Dock, submitted by Patel Taylor
HIGHLY COMMENDED: LSQ London, submitted by Rolfe Judd Planning
Award for infrastructure planning
WINNER: Beaulieu, submitted by Countryside
Award for best housing scheme (fewer than 500 homes)
WINNER: The Waterman, submitted by Pilbrow & Partners
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Tregunnel Hill, Newquay, submitted by ADAM Architecture
Award for best housing scheme (500 homes or more)
Sponsored by Pegasus Group
WINNER: Tadpole Garden Village, submitted by Crest Nicholson
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Monksmoor Park, submitted by Crest Nicholson
Award for best use of arts, culture or sport in placemaking
WINNER: A City Less Grey, submitted by LeedsBID (Leeds Business Improvement District) & East Street Arts
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Walthamstow EMD Cinema, submitted by Pilbrow & Partners
Award for best use of heritage in placemaking
WINNER: Walthamstow Wetlands, submitted by the London Borough of Waltham Forest
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Fairfield Halls, submitted by MICA Architects
Best use of brownfield land in placemaking
WINNER: Southall Waterside, submitted by JTP and Berkeley Homes (West Thames)
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Alconbury Weald, submitted by JTP and Urban&Civic
Best use of publicly-owned land and/or property in placemaking
WINNER: Central Somers Town Masterplan, submitted by DSDHA
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Salford Ingleside Birthing Centre, submitted by Salford City Council
Award for excellence in place-making at high densities
WINNER: Southall Waterside, submitted by JTP and Berkeley Homes (West Thames)
Award for design excellence
WINNER: Maldon District Design Guide, submitted by Maldon District Council and BDP
HIGHLY COMMENDED: 8 Finsbury Circus, submitted by City of London Corporation
Award for community-led placemaking
WINNER: Woodberry Down, submitted by Berkeley Homes (NEL), London Borough of Hackney, Woodberry Down Community Trust, Manor House Development Trust and Notting Hill Genesis
Award for partnership working
WINNER: Fletton Quays, submitted by Peterborough Investment Partnership
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Places for People X Urban Splash, submitted by Urban Splash Management
Award for promoting economic growth
WINNER: Circus West Village, submitted by Battersea Power Station Development Company
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Tileyard Studios, submitted by Pilbrow & Partners
Award for regeneration
WINNER: Twechar regeneration project, submitted by Places for People
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Preston Barracks and the University of Brighton Lewes Road masterplan, submitted by U+I
PLANNING CATEGORIES
Award for planning for the natural environment
WINNER: North West Cambridge Development, submitted by University of Cambridge
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Kingsbrook, submitted by Aylesbury Vale District Council
Award for planning for affordable housing
WINNER: North West Cambridge Development, submitted by University of Cambridge
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Rye Hill Park, submitted by Weston Williamson + Partners
Award for planning for increased housing delivery
Sponsored by Russell Roof Tiles
WINNER: Beechwood Village, submitted by Swan Housing Association
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Wembley Modular Developments, submitted by HTA Design LLP
Planning permission of the year
WINNER: Unity, Doncaster, submitted by Waystone
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Rochester Riverside, submitted by bptw partnership
Award for use of new technology in planning
WINNER: Park Royal Intensification Study, submitted by Hawkins Brown
Award for stakeholder engagement in planning
WINNER: Laindon Shopping Centre, submitted by Swan Housing Association
HIGHLY COMMENDED: UCL East Masterplan, submitted by LDA Design, Soundings, LLDC and UCL
Award for neighbourhood planning
WINNER: Kislingbury Neighbourhood Plan, submitted by Cherwell and South Northamptonshire Councils
Award for plan-making
WINNER: Harborough District Council Cemetery and Burial Strategy, submitted by Enzygo
Local authority planning team of the year
in association with the Planning Officers Society
WINNER: London Borough of Barnet planning enforcement team, submitted by Re (Regional Enterprise), a joint venture by Barnet and Capita
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Haringey planning team, submitted by London Borough of Haringey
Planning law firm of the year
Sponsored by RPS
WINNER: Bircham Dyson Bell
Planning consultancy of the year
Sponsored by Francis Taylor Building
WINNER: bptw planning
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, submitted by Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design.
