Celebrating Planning Excellence
The South West 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 to the RTPI Awards are now closed.
However you are not too late for another award....
The South West Chairs Award - Unsung Planning Heroes' is still open until the 26th April.
Find out more and nominate here
The judging process
The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence has 15 national award categories. Entries in the South West are initially judged across 11 categories and then 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.
Key dates 2025
- 23 April - 7 May - South West judges site visits and/or Young Planner interviews
- 15 May - South West shortlist announced
- 11 June - Announcing the winners in the region at the South West Summer Reception and Awards Ceremony
- August/September - National awards judging
- Mid-October - National finalists announced
- 27 November - National ceremony
Ceremony
The RTPI South West Awards for Planning Excellence celebration event will be held in Exeter on the 11 June as part of the Summer Reception event.
Find out more and book your tickets here
Sponsors
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."
If you are interested in sponsoring the South West awards, please contact Charlotte Daborn, RTPI South West Regional Coordinator.
For more information
If you have any questions, please visit the awards hub or contact Charlotte Daborn, RTPI South West Regional Coordinator.
