Celebrating Planning Excellence
The London Awards for Planning Excellence 2025 showcase and celebrate the best plans, projects and people.
Our coveted awards recognise and highlight the positive contribution planning professionals make in the communities we serve around the world.
Entries are now closed.
The judging process
The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence has 15 national award categories. Entries in London are initially judged across 11 categories and awarded as:
- Best Plan
- Best Project
- Planning Authority of the Year
- Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Mid-Size Planning Consultancy of the Year
- Young Planner of the Year*
These winners become national finalists.
The shortlisted entries are put through for judging in the national awards and will be judged against the others in their selected categories for the national finalist list. The remaining four direct to national categories are also judged to complete the national finalist list of 15 categories. The winners and commendations are announced at the national ceremony in 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.
"It’s a really big achievement we were up against some big planning consultancies doing some amazing stuff and to be commended is a big achievement."
Third Revolution Projects
Key dates 2025
- Site visits – 23 April - 7 May - London judges site visits and/or Young Planner interviews
- 15 May - London shortlist announced
- July - Announcing the winners in the London region at the awards ceremony
- August/September - National awards judging
- Mid-October - National finalists announced
- 27 November - National ceremony
The RTPI London Awards for Planning Excellence celebration event will be held in London on 10th July 2025. Book your tickets here. RTPI | RTPI London Planning Awards for Excellence - Ceremony
Sponsors
If you are interested in sponsoring the London awards, please contact Rachel Smith, RTPI London Regional Coordinator.
For more information
If you have any questions, please visit the awards hub or contact Rachel Smith, RTPI London Regional Coordinator.
Ceremony Sponsors
Dentons
Venue Sponsor
Dentons
Venue Sponsor
Dentons UKI planning team sits within our 200+ strong UKI real estate practice working from five offices across the UK and Ireland. We are ranked as one of the UK's leading planning law practices in the Legal 500 and Chambers Directories. We are known for expertise in large-scale housing and mixed-use regeneration projects, CPO and infrastructure advice. The range, complexity and profile of work – for national and local Government, developers, investors and infrastructure providers – stands out. Our point of difference is the balance of advising both Government and investors on all areas of planning law.
This gives us a different perspective and helps drive our reputation for finding solutions and remaining at the forefront of legal innovation. Our working culture - focussed on building consensus and solving problems within project teams and with counterparties - is distinctive. We believe our values – brevity, integrity, innovation and common sense – are recognised as helping us to drive success for our clients.
Category Sponsors
Vistry Group
Young Planner of the Year Category Sponsor
Vistry Group
Young Planner of the Year Category Sponsor
Vistry Group is a top 5 housebuilder with a purpose to develop sustainable new homes and communities across all sectors of the UK housing market. Vistry do this with an ethos of doing the right thing across all operations, and with our people acting by our values of integrity, caring and quality.
Vistry Group is uniquely positioned to lead the way in the UK housing market with a countercyclical business model featuring Vistry Housebuilding and Vistry Partnerships which combines both partner delivery and development-led capabilities and has a hard-earned reputation for delivery, quality and sector knowledge across all housing tenures.
