Southampton Renaissance has been shortlisted for Promoting Economic Growth at this year’s Planning Awards.
The Planning Awards celebrate outstanding work across the built environment sector, recognising projects that deliver meaningful impact through regeneration and long-term economic transformation across the UK. Southampton Renaissance has been shortlisted as part of this for demonstrating excellence in planning and economic regeneration, highlighting its pivotal role in shaping the city’s future.
Led by Southampton City Council and the Southampton Renaissance Board, with Prior + Partners acting as masterplanners, planners and place economists, the Southampton Renaissance is a city-scale regeneration programme setting out a long-term vision to unlock investment, improve connectivity and enhance quality of life across the city.
The programme spans 435-hectares of city, waterfront, and transitional urban land, structured around a unified Vision, six Renaissance Area Frameworks, a Delivery Strategy, and an Investment Prospectus. It is grounded in a comprehensive socio-economic baseline and spatial analysis, which identified barriers such as income disparities, housing shortages, mobility constraints, fragmented public spaces, and underutilised land. This evidence-led approach allows interventions to be prioritised where they can effectively improve quality of life and economic opportunity for communities facing entrenched deprivation.
Developed through close collaboration with the Renaissance Board and key city stakeholders, these outputs integrate economic, social, and spatial objectives, creating a coherent framework for inclusive growth across the city centre and waterfront, strengthening investor confidence, unlocking private sector investment, and enhancing place quality for residents.
The Planning Awards winners will be announced on 4th June at the IET in London.
Find out more about the awards and other nominations here.
