Winners - Building London Planning Awards
Winners - Building London Planning Awards
Huge congratulations to all of the winners at this year’s Building London Planning Awards, which continues to celebrate the very best projects throughout the capital. The diversity of award winners reflects the breadth of expertise that is driving forward world-leading delivery across our built environment, despite very challenging conditions. Thanks to all of the organisations that made this year’s ceremony such a brilliant event, including Newmark for supporting the Mayor’s Award for Good Growth.
Jules Pipe CBE, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Regeneration hosted the BLPA 2025 ceremony
The capital’s most innovative and sustainable planning projects were celebrated at the 21st Building London Planning Awards on 14th October 2025.
Delivered by BusinessLDN, in partnership with the Mayor of London, the prestigious awards ceremony was held at the iconic Glaziers Hall and highlighted outstanding planning and development projects across the city.
Entries were evaluated by an independent judging panel from BusinessLDN and its members, as well as our partner organisations – the Royal Town Planning Institute, BAME Planners Network, Greater London Authority, Planning Officers Society London and London Councils.
Winners from the Building London Planning Awards 2025:
THE MAYOR’S AWARD FOR GOOD GROWTH, SPONSORED BY NEWMARK
The winner for the Mayor’s Award for Good Growth category is chosen from the category winners below.
Winner: Former Granada Cinema, Walthamstow – submitted by the London Borough of Waltham Forest – The restoration of the former Granada Cinema and its rebirth as Soho Theatre Walthamstow is a pioneering project that has conserved and restored a Grade II* listed building and created a significant new cultural venue for the benefit of local people and London as a whole.
Winner: Darwin House – submitted by Westminster City Council – The new Darwin House Building in Pimlico is a major success story, blending sustainability, community, and thoughtful design. This 100% affordable, community-supported development by Westminster City Council, with contractor Wates, delivers 34 homes that provide spacious and accessible living for older residents.
Winner: 100 Fetter Lane – submitted by City of London Corporation – 100 Fetter Lane delivers a best-in-class, Grade A, low-carbon, operationally net-zero, light, airy, and naturally ventilated workplace, designed with the well-being and happiness of its users key. The scheme delivers expansive roof terraces, a new pocket park with a café, and a reinvented City pub with new alleys linking to a City garden.
Winner: St Pancras Commercial Centre – submitted by Newmark – The development combines a range of land uses to provide a sustainable design that successfully demonstrates co-location to deliver key land-use priorities. The scheme delivers improvements to the public realm, including the creation of new public open space and pedestrian routes through the site connecting to wider key areas of Camden.
PLACEMAKING, HERITAGE, AND CULTURE AWARD
Winner: Former Granada Cinema, Walthamstow – submitted by the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
SUSTAINABLE PLANNING AWARD, SPONSORED BY LANDSEC
Winner: The City of London’s Sustainability Policy Guidance – submitted by City of London Corporation – The City of London Corporation has published an integrated suite of sustainability planning policy guidance, providing holistic guidance from heritage retrofit, Whole Life Carbon testing, Local Energy Networks, Circular Economy to Climate change mitigation. The guidance is impactful, with over half of all major applications in 2024 involving exemplary deep retrofit.
Winner: Former Granada Cinema, Walthamstow – submitted by the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
PLANNING SERVICE OF THE YEAR
Winner: Enfield Council Planning Service – submitted by Enfield Council – Over the past two years, the Planning Service at Enfield has been on an extraordinary transformational journey, improving service performance, officer well-being, and progressing a new and ambitious Local Plan that will support the growth needs of the borough and wider region, alongside the delivery of quality outcomes for local communities.
BEST RETROFIT PROJECT, SPONSORED BY CBRE
Winner: Norton Folgate – submitted by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris – Occupying a prominent position on the City fringe, this office-led development is one of the most complex projects delivered by British Land and an architect team led by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. The project comprises three urban blocks, with the retention of a significant number of historic buildings, creation of six new buildings, and new public realm.
SOCIAL VALUES AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Winner: Earls Court: a masterplan with community at its heart – submitted by Earls Court Development Company – The Earls Court Development Company and ZCD Architects are transforming the former Earls Court Exhibition Centre site for Earls Court Partnership Limited: a joint venture between Delancey, APG, and TfL. The masterplan will create a better site, respond to the climate emergency, and deliver essential housing and a heritage for future generations.
INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AWARD
Winner: Silvertown Tunnel – submitted by Transport for London – Linking Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula in East London, the new tunnel is boosting cross-river public transport, helping to reduce congestion at the Blackwall Tunnel, delivering faster journeys during peak times, and managing overall air quality.
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD
Winner: Dr Victoria Hills, Chief Executive at the Royal Town Planning Institute
