The City Council has been unveiled as this year's winner of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) South East Awards for Planning Excellence.
Milton Keynes City Council has outlined its ambitions for future growth in its Strategy for 2050 and is gearing up to deliver growth through its New City Plan.
The panel said the competition for the overall winner was especially intense, but it was a 'delight' to be able to recognise the exceptional work undertaken by the City Council.
Stephen Harness FRTPI, Chair of the RTPI South East Awards for Planning Excellence judging panel said, “The panel was delighted to receive a strong range of entries from across the region and to be able to recognise the excellence in planning practice.
"From the overall winner Milton Keynes City Council; from the project’s winner Bayside, Worthing; from the small planning consultancy winner Edgars and to see the future of the profession in the young planner winner Joney Muriel Ramirez Soto.”
The South East Awards for Planning Excellence celebrate examples of how planning and planners make a positive impact on our quality of life, creating exceptional places to live, play and work whilst protecting our environment.
Other awards presented on the night were:
- Best Plan: AL21 land west of Windsor stakeholder masterplan entered by Wates Developments in partnership with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- Best Project: Bayside, Worthing entered by ECE Planning Limited and Worthing Borough Council
- Small Planning Consultancy: Edgars
- Young Planner of the Year: Joney Muriel Ramirez Soto, RPS
