Regent Street Wins Mayors Award For Planning

The Regent Street Vision has won the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson's, Award for Planning Excellence at the London Planning Awards.

The annual London Planning Awards, jointly run by the Mayor of London, London First, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and London Councils, are designed to recognise planning professionals and organisations that have made a vital contribution to the capital in making it a better place to live, work, do business and visit.

This year, the Mayor’s Award for Excellence was looking in particular for a project that combined real quality of delivery, a lasting change for London, and which sent out a clear message about the type of city the Mayor wants London to become. The Regent Street Vision, submitted by The Crown Estate, was deemed to show strengths across a number of the award categories – but was praised in particular for its excellent renovation and remodelling of historic buildings and for its ambitious long term plans to bring Regent Street up to international standards of retail and commercial floor space and public realm. The project was deemed to combine the best of modern architecture whilst making the most of London’s built heritage, a key objective in the London Plan.

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: “Once again the London Planning Awards have attracted strong entries that really do improve the quality of life of Londoners. It’s particularly important during these tough times for the economy that we press on with developing our city so that the capital emerges from the downturn stronger and more competitive. Our planners and designers have an important role to play in ensuring we produce functional projects that also fire the imagination.”