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JUDGES’ INTRODUCTION
“Now that London is home to more people than
ever before, bold and innovative planning has
taken on an even more crucial role. As our city
continues to grow, the cranes are swinging
into action on schemes both big and small
and the variety of projects showcased through
the London Planning Awards gives me great
confidence that the capital has the vision and
talent to be able to embrace our incredible
population growth and remain the best big city
on the world.”
BORIS JOHNSON
Mayor of London
“The London Planning Awards show how much
outstanding work is happening to make our
great city and its neighbourhoods even greater
in the future. Councils, working in partnership
with developers, public bodies and others,
are uniquely placed to ensure that through
new schemes, the maximum economic, social
and environment value is unlocked and the
right balance between these is achieved. On
behalf of London Councils, I’d like to offer my
congratulations to the winners and all those
who were shortlisted.”
CLLR CLAIRE KOBER
Executive member for infrastructure and regeneration,
London Councils
“These awards show what can be achieved
when the public and private sectors work
together. We now have a great opportunity to
focus this teamwork on London’s Opportunity
Areas and Intensification Areas. The Mayor
has earmarked these sites for large scale
development and they could deliver 300,000
homes and almost 600,000 jobs. Such
developments will help sustain London’s rapid
growth and the planning sector will be crucial to
unlocking their potential.”
BARONESS JO VALENTINE
Chief Executive, London First
“The awards highlight truly exceptional
examples of planning and celebrate the
contribution that planners are making across
London. With an extraordinarily strong shortlist
it has been very difficult to pick individual
winners when the impact of projects has
been so high. I think we have selected some
remarkable examples of great planning that are
making a real difference in communities.”
JANET ASKEW
President, Royal Town Planning Institute
Sponsored by
WINNER
BEST NEW PLACE TO WORK
PILL BOX, BETHNAL GREEN
Workspace Group
Refurbished by Workspace Group, the historical industrial 65,000 square feet warehouse
was converted to accommodate 90 new and growing businesses employing over 450 people
in total. With generous cycling facilities and located only a few minutes’ walk from Bethnal
Green Station it’s easily accessible. Not only does the development benefit from the facilities
in Bethnal Green local town
centre, it also provides an
award winning café and
restaurant, events space,
flexible workspace, meeting
rooms and a gym all carefully
designed to encourage
collaboration and interaction
between tenants to help their
businesses grow.
Image by Workspace Group
SHORTLISTED
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Development Securities PLC
Wates Construction
Pell Frischman
Aecom
Emmer Pfenninger
Savills
SWIPT
Flanagan Lawrence
Planit
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Image by Nick Guttridge
10 HAMMERSMITH GROVE
THE SOUTH MOLTON
STREET BUILDING
DSDHA
Image by Dennis Gilbert
Sponsored by
BEST COMMUNITY LED PROJECT
LTS Architects (UK), Engineers HRW, Max Fordham, Shree Hari Construction, LDA
Design, Sutton Vane, Michael Grubb, Maninagar Shree Swaminarayan Gadi
The project is a manifestation of a vision the local Swaminarayan community have nurtured
for 25 years. The temple was funded and built by the local community, and whilst specific to
the local Hindu population, the complex also serves the wider community. The multi-function
hall is a bookable resource
for local schools and
residents, and approximately
one third of the site provides
subsidised work space
for local businesses. The
opening of the temple was
marked by a parade attended
by 2000 local people. It
achieves BREEAM ‘excellent’
with rainwater harvesting and
solar panels on the roof and
is considered one of the first
‘eco-temples’ in the world.
WINNER
SHREE SWAMINARAYAN MANDIR KINGSBURY
Image by Federico Redin
Circle Housing
SHORTLISTED
ORCHARD VILLAGE
Sponsored by
WINNER
BEST CONCEPTUAL PROJECT
THE LONDON UNDERLINE
Gensler, PaveGen Systems, Momentum
The project proposes the innovative re-use of disused tube tunnels as pedestrian walkways.
In particular, Gensler identified the tunnels between Green Park and Charing Cross Road
and between Holborn and Aldwych linking strategic pedestrian destinations and significantly
alleviating the pressure on footway and public transport between them. These underground
spaces would be
activated by stalls and
other commercial and
cultural uses helping
pay for the project, as
well as making them
safe and attractive.
Power for the network
would be generated
by kinetic paving
systems – making the
whole project selfsustaining.
SHORTLISTED
Image by Trevor To, Adam Lloyd Phillips, Riddhi Parakh
ST CLEMENT’S HOSPITAL, BOW
John Thompson & Partners
Linden Homes
GLA
East London Community Land Trust
Peabody
Image by John Thompson & Partners
Sponsored by
BEST NEW PLACE TO LIVE
Levitt Bernstein, Murdoch Wickham, East Thames Group, First Base, Spitalfields
Housing Association, Bellway Homes Ltd, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Wates
Living Space, Bellway, Tully De’Ath, URS, Designbrook, White Associates, Rider Levett
Bucknall
The scheme transforms the previously poor quality 2.98 hectare site into a traditional
permeable and legible street
based development, providing
704 good quality flats and
private communal spaces. 50%
of the homes are affordable and
all are larger than the London
Plan space standards. The
site is located within walking
distance of the local town
centre providing access to
schools, shops and other social
infrastructure.
WINNER
VIVO & SO STEPNEY
Image by Tim Crocker
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Berkeley Homes East Thames,
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, CZWG,
PRP, Scott Brown Rigg
2
Image by Berkeley Homes
KING’S CROSS ARTHOUSE
dRMM Architects, Weedan Partnership,
Argent (Property Development) Services
LLP, Kier Construction, Arup, AECOM,
Hoare Lea, Johnson Naylor LLP,
Davis Langdon, Dan Pearson Studio
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THAMES VIEW EAST
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham,
Pollard Thomas Edwards,
Explore Investments, a Laing O’Rourke
Company, Arup, Jerram Falkus
Construction Ltd, Long Harbour,
Plincke Landscape Architects
Image by John Sturrock, Daniel Romero
Image by Tim Crocker
SHORTLISTED
KIDBROOKE VILLAGE
Sponsored by
WINNER
BEST NEW PUBLIC SPACE
CLAPHAM OLD TOWN REGENERATION PROJECT
London Borough of Lambeth, Urban Movement, Marks Barfield, Project Centre,
FM Conway
The project involved the remodelling
of the 1960s gyratory to drastically
increase the ratio of footway to
carriageway achieving an increase
of 35% to 65% in pedestrian space,
significantly improving the overall
quality of the environment. Street
furniture was rationalised maximising
space for pedestrians and minimising
visual clutter, crossings were
located on key desire lines, and
60 new cycle stands and 102 trees
were planted. All this was achieved
whilst increasing pedestrian space,
reducing traffic speeds and ensuring
the funding streams for its long-term
management were secured.
SHORTLISTED
Image by London Borough of Lambeth
WILCOX PLACE
Westminster City Council
BURNS + NICE
Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA)
West One Infrastructure
Services
Image by BURNS + NICE
Sponsored by
BEST PROJECT FIVE YEARS ON
Swan Housing Association
Originally a deprived estate, isolated from the surrounding community with high crime levels
and poor quality environment, Bow Cross has been transformed into a traditional streetbased neighbourhood where people want to live. Part-redevelopment and part-refurbishment,
a new road bridges over the railway infrastructure connecting the area to surrounding
neighbourhoods; multilevelled walkways were
removed; and previously
underused open spaces
consolidated and given
stronger sense of
ownership. The success of
the project is made evident
by the large number of
residents choosing to
stay or return to the area,
a doubling of tenant
applications, and the
success of private sales.
WINNER
BOW CROSS
Image by Swan Housing Association
First Base
Image by First Base
SHORTLISTED
HIGHBURY GARDENS
Sponsored by
WINNER
BEST HERITAGE LED PROJECT
TOTTENHAM TOWN HALL AND ISOBEL PLACE
Newlon Housing Trust
Newlon Housing Trust restored the Grade II listed
Edwardian Town Hall into a sustainably managed local
community business centre with affordable housing to
the rear around a courtyard. The scheme managed to
turn the previously inaccessible Town Hall into a fully
DDA compliant building. A close working relationship
with English Heritage meant a thorough restoration
took place including replacing tiny terrazzo mosaic tiles
in the floor of the Town Hall and recreating the original
clock tower on the roof of the previously derelict
workshops. Demand from small, start-up businesses is
strong and all residential properties are fully let.
Image by Newlon Housing Trust and bptw architects
SHORTLISTED
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BLACK CULTURAL ARCHIVE,
BRIXTON
Black Cultural Archive,
Lambeth Council,
Heritage Lottery Fund
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Image by Pringle Richards Sharratt: Edmund Sumner
SHEPHERD’S BUSH
PAVILION HOTEL
Dorsett / Kosmopolitan Hotels,
Flanagan Lawrence, Dorsett
Hotels, Ardmore, Expedition
Engineering, URS, McBains
Cooper, Malachi Walsh, FDS
Consult, David Bonnet Associates,
DP9, GIA, Halcrow, Davis
Langdon, Sandy Brown, English
Architectural Glazing (EAG)
2
Image by Anthony Weller
Sponsored by
BEST TOWN CENTRE PROJECT
University of Greenwich, Deloitte Real Estate, Heneghan Peng Architects
The project exemplifies the type of diversification town centres and high streets need to
strive for to secure their future. Whilst designed and run by the University, the Stockwell
Street building brings a large library, exhibition and educational space and other cultural
activities to the heart
of the town centre.
Open to the public,
the development has
created a significant
increase in footfall
and vitality to the
high street, helping
local businesses and
creating a truly mixed
use town centre.
WINNER
STOCKWELL STREET AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
Image by Heneghan Peng Architects
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HORNCHURCH PEDESTRIAN
REALM IMPROVEMENT SCHEME
London Borough of Havering
Transport for London
Jacobs Engineering
2
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Image by London Borough of Havering, Chris Smart
WOOD STREET OUTER
LONDON FUND PROJECT
London Borough of Waltham Forest
GLA
East Architecture
Ashley McCormick Projects
SHORTLISTED
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Sponsored by
JOHN TURNER,
TOWN PLANNING DIRECTOR, BALLYMORE GROUP
For his role in negotiating the new pedestrian bridge across the River Lee at Leamouth,
connecting Tower Hamlets and Newham; overseeing the submission of major planning
applications such as of Bishopsgate Goodsyard, Arrowhead Quay, Brentford Town Centre;
and leading on the delivery of major residential developments such as London City island,
Embassy gardens, Providence Tower and Royal Wharf.
John Anderson, Chairman,
Berkeley Homes East Thames
WINNER
MAYOR’S AWARD FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE
BOW CROSS
Swan Housing Association
SHORTLISTED
WINNER
LONDON PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
PERSON OF THE YEAR
AWARDS CEREMONY
CITY HALL, TUESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2015
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BEST NEW PLACE TO WORK
PILL BOX, BETHNAL GREEN
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BEST COMMUNITY LED PROJECT
SHREE SWAMINARAYAN
MANDIR KINGSBURY
3
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BEST CONCEPTUAL PROJECT
THE LONDON UNDERLINE
BEST NEW PLACE TO LIVE
VIVO & SO STEPNEY
5
BEST NEW PUBLIC SPACE
CLAPHAM OLD TOWN
REGENERATION PROJECT
6
BEST PROJECT 5 YEARS ON
BOW CROSS
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BEST HERITAGE LED PROJECT
TOTTENHAM TOWN HALL AND
ISOBEL PLACE
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BEST TOWN CENTRE PROJECT
STOCKWELL STREET AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
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LONDON PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
PERSON OF THE YEAR
JOHN TURNER
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MAYOR’S AWARD FOR
PLANNING EXCELLENCE
BOW CROSS
AWARDS CEREMONY
CITY HALL, TUESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2015
AWARDS CEREMONY
CITY HALL, TUESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2015
OUR SPONSORS
Ballymore is an international property investment
and development company focused on large
scale projects across Europe – a leader in urban
regeneration, the company maintains this position
by putting an enormous amount of thought into the
creativity, design and detail of every development.
One of the things that distinguishes Ballymore
from many other developers is the breadth of
involvement; taking a project from birth of an idea
until it’s fully realised, leading and managing the
process every step of the way by remaining fully
committed to all buildings through in-house estate
management teams, long after the last unit has
been sold. Developments of note include Embassy
Gardens, Pan Peninsula, 21 Wapping Lane, West
Hampstead Square, Baltimore Wharf, Eurovea and
New Providence Wharf.
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP is a premier, fullservice law firm headquartered in the City of
London. We offer pragmatic, commercial legal
advice that helps major public and private
companies, financial institutions, public sector
bodies and
private clients to achieve their goals. Our service
extends to over 65 jurisdictions, with offices in Abu
Dhabi, Brussels, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong,
Moscow (Goltsblat BLP), Paris and Singapore.
We recently became the only firm to be named
‘Law Firm of the Year’ at both the British Legal
Awards and The Lawyer Awards, in the same
year. Our planning team has been rated number
one for over a decade and our unrivalled strength
and depth ensures that we are able to mobilise
resources, create and commission work and
exercise influence well beyond the scope of
other legal planning practices. Our clients range
from property companies, developers, local and
central government to utility companies and major
infrastructure providers. We have been involved in
many of the biggest and most innovative schemes
in the UK, including the Shard, Liverpool One,
the Olympic Park, Thames and Lee Tunnels, the
Millennium Dome, Wood Wharf and Westfield.
Delancey is a specialist real estate investment,
development and advisory company whose
activities encompass retail, residential and
commercial real estate across London and the
UK. Collaborating on a wide range of assets,
partners and clients, Delancey is recognised for
its innovative and diverse approach to creating
long term value from real estate. Delancey also
advises clients on appropriate capital structures,
financing and provides asset management and
development services. Delancey has a diverse
portfolio of retail, residential, office and corporate
assets across London and the UK, including the
Alpha Plus Group, Elephant & Castle Shopping
Centre, the Walbrook Building in the City and 185
Park Street on the South Bank. Delancey is also a
pioneer in the private rented sector and has spent
much of the last few years bringing the legacy of
the London 2012 Olympics to life; delivering over
3,000 homes for rent at East Village, the former
London 2012 Athletes Village; and revealing the
UKs leading creative and digital hub at Here East,
the former Olympic Press and Broadcast Centre,
which will provide over 4,500 jobs on-site and an
expected additional 2,000 jobs in the local area.
Edelman is the world’s largest Public Relations
Agency, with more than 5,000 people in 65 offices.
Edelman provides strategic thinking and delivers
high-impact campaigns, across the full spectrum of
communications. We work for some of the world’s
leading brands and employ some of the industry’s
top talent. Edelman’s property arm delivers
focused, sustained and successful campaigns
for our varied client base in construction, house
building, commercial property, residential property,
rural property and estates, retirement communities,
social housing, estate agency, international
resorts, interior design and architecture. We
create integrated, multi-platform communications
strategies that build confidence in the brand, the
product and the project to help achieve our clients’
goals whether that be securing planning consent,
marketing units or building the brand of their
destination.
OUR SPONSORS
English Heritage works with owners and
developers to give historic buildings a future. We
understand that sometimes their best chance of
survival comes from adapting them to economically
viable new uses. We offer expert advice and
guidance to developers wanting to invest in historic
buildings and give them a profitable future. From
spring 2015 we shall become Historic England,
a government service championing England’s
heritage and giving expert, constructive advice
and English Heritage will be a charity caring for
the National Heritage Collection of more than 400
historic properties and their collections.
Hogan Lovells has an acknowledged market
leading planning team, with diverse experience
across the entire spectrum of planning related
issues. We have a pre-eminent reputation for
development and regeneration including, in
particular, mixed use developments and complex
brownfield and greenfield sites. Our involvement
covers all stages of development proposals, from
assessment of relevant development plan policies
and advice on representations to formulation
of an application strategy and associated risk,
negotiations on planning and related agreements
and advising on appeals and statutory challenges.
Our planning team has been consistently rated
as a leading firm in the Legal 500 and Chambers
directories. Commentators note that we are "very
good, responsive, obviously very bright and as
a team cheerful and good team players." "Very
responsive and very quick. Explaining clearly and
robust in our opinion." Chambers UK 2015.
Land Securities is the UK’s largest listed
commercial property company and a member of
the FTSE 100. The company owns and manages
more than 25 million sq. ft. of property, from
shopping centres to offices, valued in excess of
£13.2 billion.Land Securities is currently delivering
a 2.2 million sq. ft., £2 billion development pipeline
for Victoria. The area around Victoria Street is
being transformed into a place for Londoners to
enjoy, people to visit and a place that businesses
and individuals are proud to call home. Current
development portfolio: New Ludgate EC4; 1 New
Street Square EC4; Kings Gate SW1; The Zig Zag
Building SW1; Nova, Victoria SW1.
Located at the gateway to the Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park, The International Quarter is one
of the UK’s largest mixed use developments.
Comprising 4 million square feet of Grade A office
space, 330 homes at Glasshouse Gardens, a
major 4 star hotel and a range of independent
retail and leisure units, The International Quarter
will bring over 25,000 jobs to Stratford, making
a major contribution to the regeneration of East
London. A joint partnership between Lend Lease
and London and Continental Railways, The
International Quarter is designed and built with the
aim of promoting the health and wellbeing of all
those who live and work there, and its world class
design and office environment will showcase a new
proposition for the workplace.
Turley is a planning consultancy in London for
London. We are passionate about London. We are
driven both by the opportunity to creatively shape
our great City and by our long term physical and
socio-economic legacy.
London First was established in 1991. We
are a not-for-profit membership organisation
with a mission to make London the best city
in the world in which to do business. Our
Partners and Members reflect the diversity
of London’s economy, drawing from both
the private and not-for-profit sectors across
property, transport, finance, professional
services, creative industries, hospitality,
retail and education. This wide sectoral
coverage of our membership gives us an
unrivalled insight into the issues affecting
London’s businesses and enables us to
represent them across a spectrum of issues,
all under the shared goal of maintaining
London’s global competitiveness.
Boris Johnson, as Mayor of London, is
London’s spokesman and advocate. He
is the capital’s wwwwstrategic lead for
planning, housing, transport, economic
development and the environment. He sets
budgets for the Greater London Authority,
Transport for London, and the police and
fire services. He particularly values the
role of planning in promoting economic
growth, delivering certainty for investors and
improving the quality of life for Londoners.
The Royal Town Planning Institute is the
UK's leading planning body for spatial,
sustainable and inclusive planning and
is the largest planning institute in Europe
with over 23,000 members. We are a
membership organisation and a Chartered
Institute responsible for maintaining
professional standards and accrediting
world class planning courses nationally and
internationally. We are also a learned society
and a charity whose charitable purpose is to
advance the science and art of planning for
the benefit of the public.
London Councils represents London’s 32
borough councils and the City of London.
It is a cross-party organisation that works
on behalf of all of its member authorities
regardless of political persuasion.
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