Belfast’s Victoria Square shopping centre-led regeneration project has been awarded the Royal Town Planning Institute’s top planning prize today.

The 800,000 sq ft Belfast scheme (pictured) picked up first prize at the RTPI Planning Awards 2010 earlier today. The Silver Jubilee Cup was presented to its designers, BDP, by shadow communities and local government minister Bob Neill at a ceremony in London’s Hilton Hotel.

The project was picked from a shortlist of 32 entries from across the UK. Commendations and other awards presented will be announced later this afternoon.

The Award’s judging panel consisted of Kay Powell, (Secretary of the National Planning Forum) and Chair of the Judges, Gareth Pryce, (Vice President of the Planning Summer School) and Professor Chris Couch of  Liverpool John Moores University.

The shortlisted entries, and the planners who submitted them, are listed below by region:

London

“Woolwich Arsenal Extension” – Docklands Light Railway

“London Rivers Action Plan” – Environment Agency

“London Brownfield Sites Review (Stage 2)” – Arup

“Fen Court Project, Cheapside Strategy, Shoe Lane Quarter Project” – City of London

“Mill Hill East Area Action Plan” – London Borough of Barnet

“Sustainable Design and Construction SPD” – London Borough of Southwark

North East

“Eldon Square Shopping Centre – Phase 1 Redevelopment, Newcastle” – Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners

“Castle Howard Conservation Management Plan and Development Framework” – Castle Howard Estate

North West

“Covered Market Hall Restoration Project, Stockport” – Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

“Barnsley Education Sites DPD” – Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

“100 Years of Planning Achievement” – University of Liverpool Department of Civic Design

South East

“One Brighton” – Brighton & Hove City Council

“Ringing the Changes – the Ashford Ring Road Project” – Kent County Council

“Dorney Rowing Lake, Eton” – Capital Lovejoy

“Cobham Ashenbank Management Scheme” – Gravesham Borough Council

“Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport” – John Thompson & Partners

“Solent Waterfront Strategy” – Adams Hendry Consulting Ltd

“Brighton & Hove Urban Characterisation Study” – Brighton & Hove City Council

South West

“Cabot Circus, Bristol” – Land Securities

“Radstock Rail Lands” – LDA Design

West Midlands

“Birmingham Big City Plan” – Urban Initiatives and Birmingham City Council

Scotland

“Gardyne’s Lane, Dundee” – Dundee City Council

“Integrated Habitat Network Modelling as a Planning Tool” – Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership

Northern Ireland

“Victoria Square Regeneration Project, Belfast” – BDP

“Streamlined Consultation Scheme, Northern Ireland” – Planning Service Northern Ireland

Wales

“St. Davids Gateway and Oriel y Parc Gallery Scheme” – Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority

“Ceredigion Coast Path, West Wales” – Ceredigion County Council

Non-area specific:

“Communityplanning.net”- Nick Wates Association

“Householder Appeals Service” – The Planning Inspectorate

“Moving Green Roofs into the Mainstream” – Environment Agency

“Inclusive Design Strategy and Standards”  – Olympic Delivery Authority

“A Benchmark for the Spatial Planning Function 2008”  – Addison & Associates

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