The 2026 nominations cover everything from Shared Ownership and affordable housing to regeneration, teamwork and partnership working.
We have been shortlisted for the following:
Best Shared Ownership Development - The Aviary
Best mixed-use development including residential - Southmere
Best Regeneration Project - One Clapham
Best Affordable Housing Development - St Olaves
Best Development - The Auria
Best Development Team - Development Team at One Clapham
Best Development Team - Peabody Development Team
Best Partnership - Barkingside Yard
It’s a brilliant show of the variety of work happening across Peabody and the difference these projects are making, not just by providing new homes, but by creating better places and more opportunities for local communities. Here’s a closer look at each nomination.
Best Shared Ownership Development: The Aviary
About the category: This award celebrates developments that use Shared Ownership to create desirable homes, new communities and a more accessible route onto the property ladder.
Why it was entered: The Aviary was entered because it gives first-time buyers and families a realistic route into homeownership through 84 high-quality Shared Ownership houses in an area where buying a home is often out of reach.
Best Mixed-Use Development Including Residential: Southmere
About the category: This category recognises mixed-use schemes that bring homes together with commercial, leisure or community spaces to create places where people can live, work and spend time.
Why it was entered: Southmere successfully brings 329 mixed-tenure homes together along with shops, cafés, health services, cultural venues, community facilities and an active lakeside setting.
Best Regeneration Project: One Clapham
About the category: The award highlights completed regeneration projects that have breathed new life into an area, improved housing and created wider opportunities for the community.
Why it was entered: One Clapham was entered because it's transformed the St John’s Hill Estate with new homes, public spaces and community facilities while helping existing families remain in their neighbourhood.
Best Affordable Housing Development: St Olave’s
About the category: This award recognises developments that provide genuinely affordable, high-quality homes and create places where people on lower incomes can put down roots.
Why it was entered: St Olave’s turned a difficult brownfield site into 62 tenure-blind, 100% affordable homes without compromising on design, outdoor space or quality.
Best Development: The Auria
About the category: Best Development celebrates an ambitious housing scheme that responds to the need for more homes while creating a place where people genuinely want to live.
Why it was entered: The Auria combines 230 mixed-tenure homes with a new public park, play space and community-led artwork as part of the wider Portobello Square regeneration.
Best Development Team: One Clapham
About the category: This category celebrates development teams that combine ambition, innovation and strong performance to deliver high-quality homes and places that meet residents’ needs.
Why it was entered: The One Clapham team was entered for going beyond housing delivery with a resident-led programme that has supported local jobs, skills, families, young people and greener shared spaces.
Best Development Team: Peabody Development Team
About the category: This category celebrates development teams that combine ambition, innovation and strong performance to deliver high-quality homes and places that meet residents’ needs.
Why it was entered: Peabody’s Development Team was entered for delivering more than 1,500 homes, 87% of them affordable, while continuing to progress complex regeneration and sustainability projects in a challenging market.
Best Partnership: Barkingside Yard
About the category: Best Partnership recognises strong collaboration that has unlocked new homes, funding or investment and delivered clear benefits that could not have been achieved alone.
Why it was entered: Barkingside Yard was entered because a strong partnership unlocked a constrained former builder’s yard to deliver 98 homes for social rent alongside safer station access and improved public spaces.
Looking ahead to the awards
These shortlistings reflect the work that colleagues, partners, residents and local communities have put into each project.
We’re pleased to see that work recognised and look forward to celebrating at the 2026 awards ceremony, where the winners will be announced on Tuesday 24 November 2026 at the InterContinental O2 in London.
