The Swan Housing Association’s scheme at Bow Cross, E3, has won the Mayor’s Award for Planning Excellence at the London Planning Awards.
The awards are organised by London First, in conjunction with the mayor of London, the Royal Town Planning Institute and London councils.
The mayor praised the Bow Cross scheme, which also won the Best Project Five Years On award, for knitting the community together and “turning a deprived area into somewhere people want to live”.
Other winners included John Turner, from Ballymore Group, who won the London Planning and Development Person of the Year, and Pill Box in Bethnal Green, E2, which won the Best New Place to Work Award.
Johnson said: “Now that London is home to more people than ever before, bold and innovative planning has taken on an even more crucial role. As our city continues to grow, the cranes are swinging into action on schemes both big and small and the variety of projects showcased through the London Planning Awards gives me great confidence that the capital has the vision and talent to be able to embrace our incredible population growth and remain the best big city on the world.”
