Southampton Renaissance has won the Award for Promoting Economic Growth at this year’s Planning Awards.
The Planning Awards, held on 4th June at the IET in London, celebrates outstanding work across the built environment sector, recognising projects that deliver meaningful, lasting impact through planning, regeneration and economic transformation.
As part of this, Southampton Renaissance has won the Award for Promoting Economic Growth at this year’s awards. 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 award recognises the project’s role in strengthening investor confidence, enabling inclusive growth and delivering a coherent framework for one of the UK’s most ambitious urban regeneration initiatives.
Find out more about the Planning Awards and other winners here.
