Mayor's Prize New London Awards

Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills

2020 Winner of the MAYOR'S PRIZE: Surrey Docks Farm

The New London Awards celebrate all scales of projects, from community-led to large-scale mixed-used developments, both built and unbuilt, that contribute and enhance the vision of the city, as set out in the New London Charter.

In addition to the 14 category awards and commendations, SPECIAL PRIZES will be awarded to those projects whose achievements extend beyond typology or use. In total there are six SPECIAL PRIZE categories, including the highly coveted ‘MAYOR’S PRIZE’, supported by the Mayor of London.

For 2021, the Mayor’s Prize will celebrate projects that provide lessons for the role that the high street can play in London’s recovery from the pandemic and its social and economic impacts. It will highlight exemplary projects and initiatives that can guide and inform the London Recovery Board’s mission objective to ‘deliver enhanced public spaces and exciting new uses for underused high street buildings in every Borough by 2025, working with London's diverse communities’. It will celebrate work that imbeds the principles set out in the Mayor’s Good Growth by Design ‘High Streets & Town Centres: Adaptive Strategies’ guidance.

Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills, Jules Pipe, said:

“The Mayor’s Prize at the NLA Awards highlights the important contribution that the built environment sector can make to tackling the most pertinent issues facing the sector and our cities. Focusing on challenges such as designing for a circular economy, the importance of good procurement, designing for diversity, and this year, high street recovery, the prize has helped to draw the link between the principles that the Mayor and I advocate and the terrific projects on the ground delivering solutions to those challenges. The Mayor’s Prize is an uplifting reminder of the talent that London has to offer.”

The winner of the 2021 MAYOR'S PRIZE will be announced at the Annual Award's Lunch on Friday 26 November,

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A look back at 2020

In 2020, the MAYOR’S PRIZE was awarded to the project that best reflected the Mayor of London’s ambition for a ‘Circular Economy’ as expressed throughout the Design for a Circular Economy Primer, part of the Good Growth by Design programme. The Prize looked to the future, as the Mayor aims to make London a zero carbon, zero waste and zero pollution city.

The winning project, Surrey Docks Farm (as seen in the video above), demonstrated an innovated re-use of existing buildings and construction materials, adopting circular economy principles while securing high quality design. The project, based in Rotherhithe, was a refurbishment and extension of several educational and office buildings. Surrey Docks Farm is a working community farm and education charity in London with livestock and crop plants, open to visitors for free, 7 days a week.