North East Awards for Planning Excellence
Congratulations to the North East Awards for Planning Excellence winners 2023 who were announced at the Awards dinner on Friday 23 June at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Newcastle.
- Best Project of the Year WINNER – Day Treatment Centre Submitted by DPP Planning
- Best Project of the Year COMMENDATION - Berwick Sports and Social Centre submitted by DPP Planning
- Best Project of the Year COMMENDATION - NUCASTLE submitted by Lichfields
- Young Planner of the Year – Sophie Stanton
- Small Consultancy of the Year – Origin Planning Services Ltd
- Chair’s Award - Hamminkeln Place, Sedgefield submitted by Lichfields
The North East Awards for Planning Excellence recognise and highlight the positive contribution planning professionals make in the communities we serve around the world.
Our regional winners* will now be going forward to compete in the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence national awards with all category finalists being announced on October 9. The national awards ceremony will take place on 21 November 2023 in London. Details will be announced here.
*All Young Planner of the Year winners will be entered into the national shortlist and will be judged by the national judges.
Sponsors
DPP Planning
DPP Planning
At DPP, we’ll guide you through English and Welsh planning legislation. You receive a service which goes far beyond the routine step-by-step process of planning applications and appeals.
Our focus is the outcome not the process. We consider the bigger picture and establish the right rationale for your project. You get a commercially astute strategy for your project, whether it’s large or small.
EDF Renewables UK and Ireland
EDF Renewables UK and Ireland
EDF Renewables UK and Ireland is part of one of the world’s largest electricity companies and our investment and innovation in renewable energy projects is reducing costs for consumers and bringing significant benefits to communities.
EDF Renewables has an experienced team bringing complex development projects to fruition, across various renewable technologies, including onshore and offshore wind, solar, battery and storage with more than 450 colleagues across the UK.
Hedley Planning Services
Hedley Planning Services
Hedley Planning is an award winning town planning consultancy, with a strong regional focus and a track record for unlocking complex sites and securing implementable planning permissions for clients.
Operating from two north east offices, our highly experienced staff advise a range of clients for housing, commercial and industrial developers and investors. Our experience sets us apart from our peers, we bring commercial knowledge to all schemes to ensure clients have clear, sound direction.
Lichfields
Lichfields
Lichfields is the pre-eminent planning and development consultancy in the UK. Its specialists deliver insight, innovation and advice to create great places for future generations. In 2022, it celebrated its landmark 60th anniversary.
With 215 people operating from a network of nine offices across the UK, it combines local contacts with the know-how to deal with every kind of project, large or small.
It offers a broad range of planning services including economics, heritage, sustainability, and urban design. Clients include local authorities, government bodies, as well as developers, landowners and operators in the housing, retail, leisure, commercial, and infrastructure sectors.
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP
The Planning team at Womble Bond Dickinson is ranked as a national leader, outside London, and advises on the full range of planning and highways matters, including compulsory purchase order work. The team acts for a national client base including developers, local authorities, landowners, house builders and energy companies and specialises in advising on major development schemes and nationally significant infrastructure projects. The team represents clients in planning litigation and planning inquiries, advises on a significant number of complex compulsory purchase matters, and has promoted 25 Development Consent Orders (DCOs) to date across the energy, waste and transport sectors.
Pegasus Group
Pegasus Group
Pegasus Group is a leading development consultancy offering full development lifecycle expertise bringing innovative thinking to create beautiful places which enhance the built and natural environment.
Since 2003, we’ve been solving planning and development problems for our clients successfully. We’re proud to be specialists, true experts at what we do. No matter the project, no matter the challenge you can rely on us to find solutions, get things done, and to make sure that you are always moving towards success – whatever your goal. We make sure that everything we do for you is Expertly Done.